Posted Jun 9, 2020, 1:10 PM
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Gros Méchant Loup
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Province 2, Canadian Empire
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Originally Posted by hipster duck
The French - and by that I mean the French of France who are the ones who set the bar, much like Americans are setting our bar - have a strange relationship with the concept of race.
There's no official recordkeeping of ethnicity in their census, and while that's a hangover from the fact that France was occupied by Nazis, and the English speaking countries weren't, it's perplexing why this persists 75 years later. France seems to be suffering the most from the post-colonial blues of any European country; it would be useful to have some recordkeeping of marginalization and its effects.
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Yeah well they would argue that what is actually more racist is categorizing people based on skin colour and/or ethnicity.
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