I’m pretty sure these aren’t French rioters, but Algerian rioters. Strange how the Algerians fought a war to drive the French out of Algeria, then the Algerians flooded into France to engage in rioting.
France is serving as a good model of the difference between idealism and the reality of human nature.
Right after the Revolution, France created a Constitution which declares everyone to be equally French. From a legal perspective, the Algerians are just as French as any Parisian family. No difference. Isn’t that wonderful? The government is not even allowed to keep statistics on “non-French” (because there aren’t any) so they don’t know how many recent immigrants they have within France.
That’s the beauty of an idealistic law.
But the reality of human nature is different.
The French (I mean: the real French) don’t like the non-French. They can spot them. They can tell that these people are not really French. And the immigrants know very well that they are not welcome. There is a lot of tension within France between the French and the non-French, but the government is Constitutionally forbidden from recognizing this sort of thing. Everyone is equally French, right??
The insurrection from the non-French will consist of peaceful riots, arson, and occasional deaths. It won’t ever change anything. It will go on and on and on.
Nothing can really change until Human Nature asserts itself and the real French have an actual revolution.