"Not the Immigrants Revolt, but that of the 'Other French'
Ali Ihsan Aydin
By ALI IHSAN AYDIN
Published: Thursday, November 10, 2005
We meet with youngsters who live in the 'cities,' interior suburbs in central Paris, under a metro station which they’ve adopted as their 'place.'
There are about ten of them of Algerian, Malian, Tunisian, Moroccan and Turkish origin. They all object to my opening epithet, 'immigrant youth.' 'We are not immigrants,' they retort. 'Our parents or grandparents were immigrants but not us. We were born here, schooled here and we are French!' "
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