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Old Posted Jun 6, 2009, 9:23 PM
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Originally Posted by liat91 View Post
I believe they say France is about 80% white.
I think it is closer to 15% than 20%.
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Something interresting about the past.

Foreigners in 1931 France.
  • Italian: 808,038
  • Polish: 507,811
  • Spanish: 351,864
  • Belgian: 253,694
  • Swiss: 98,475
  • Russian: 71,928
  • German: 71,729
  • Portuguese: 48,963
  • Czechoslovak: 47,401
  • English: 47,322
  • Turkish: 36,119
  • Yugoslav: 31,873
  • Armenian: 29,227
  • Luxembourgish: 21,466
  • Greeks: 19,123
  • Hugarian: 18,824
  • American (USA): 16,819
  • Romanian: 15,387



Naturalized (Immigrant having gain the french nationality) by country of birth in 1931.
  • Italy: 100,642
  • Belgium: 66,896
  • Germany: 33,204
  • Spain: 26,935
  • Switzerland: 19,714
  • Poland: 13,535
  • Russia: 10,972
  • Luxembourg: 7,057
  • Turkey: 5,114
  • Great Britain and Ireland: 4,352
  • Romania: 4,317
  • Greece: 1,751
  • USA: 1,623



People from french colonies in 1931.
  • North Africa: 85,568
  • Rest of Africa: 16,401
  • Asia: 7,929

http://www.histoire-immigration.fr/u..._diag_1931.pdf


Few people know that were about 900,000 immigrant from in Italy in 1931. Oxford university estimated that in the 1980's about 10% of the french propulation had at least a italian immigrant grand parent.

Last edited by Minato Ku; Sep 6, 2009 at 4:34 PM.
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