"the French are just now awakening from the dream...a cosmopolitan myth...that the algerians will ever be French in any meaningful sense"
1) a lot of french people never thought this myth was true to begin with. generally, they were shouted down by liberals.
2) there are several groups in the USA for whom this description accurately applies as well.
We have been ddisabled by the Civil rights leaders who grow hysterical every time they see a brown face being dominated by a white one. The irony is that it is hard to tell an Israeli from an Arab on the streets of Jerusalem if both are dressed in western clothes.