[DBtoo]

This is a topic that is somewhat close to my heart. When I was a little kid in the 60s, we lived in France in a town outside of Paris. There were a few Algerians around at that time, and the women were seen out and about as much as the men. At the time, the women wore long dresses, and I remember their beautiful long, wavy hair flowing down their backs. There were only a few Algerians in France then, and I saw them as rather exotic people.

Time passed, and I was there in the mid-ninties. Had things ever changed!! There were many more Algerians, and the women were no longer seen. A good number of the men had become gang members and/or islamist extemists, and they were blowing up the metros in Paris and carrying out other assorted acts of terror. I really resented what had happened there. My mother still lives there, but she lives in a small town in the Loire valley where there are no Arabs, but towns such as Marseilles and Lille with their large Arab populations have terrible crime rates. It's like throwing in a bunch of pit bulls into a house full of poodles. When will people ever learn. You can't turn a sow's ear into a silk purse, no matter how hard you try.

[gulfwarvet]

It's like throwing in a bunch of pit bulls into a house full of poodles.

I agree with you! It is my own "pet" theory that the different races of Man have specific personalities just like different breeds of dogs do.

The French really are like French Poodles, while there are races of man that have a temperament that IS naturally more aggressive and territorial like a Pit Bull.

As for melting-pot Americans, perhaps we are the "mutts" of the world.