France Faces a Colonial Legacy: What Makes Someone French?
“,”description”:”Semou Diouf, holding a pipe in one hand and a cigarette in the other, stood amid the noisy games of checkers and cards in the dingy ground-floor common room of a crowded tenement building and pondered the question of why he feels French. \n \n ”I was born in Senegal when it was part of France,” he said before putting the pipe in his mouth. ”I speak French, my wife is French and I was educated in France.” The problem, he added after pulling the pipe out of his mouth again, ”is the French don’t think I’m French.”\n “,”keywords”:”Demonstrations and Riots, Discrimination, Immigration and Refugees, Freedom and Human Rights,Smith Craig S,France”,”section”:”world”,”sub_section”:null,”section_display”:”World”,”sub_section_display”:null,”byline”:”By CRAIG S.
