If the national front wins the next election, they sure as hell will start doing that…
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No wetsuits allowed either?
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Try wearing a full length neoprene wetsuit with a hood (a la SCUBA gear) and we can find out!
(I suspect not.)
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I hear if you put your brain in the dryer on high, it shrinks.
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That explains so much… especially how I have to think hard…
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I expect that if a man wore a burkini to the beach they would be made to remove it on the grounds that it’s incitement or disturbance of the peace. On the other hand:
Not a problem.
Nothing.
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People wearing different clothes from other people causes too much confusion.
We should probably enforce a world-wide dress code.
Here is the one I am voting for:
Just imagine a major city at rush hour, with thousands of people all rushing about, all dressed like this.
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Granted, it’s mostly older French Catholic women who still wear head-scarves, but it’s very much a part of the culture, which makes someone shouting that doubly ironic - both that they’re claiming France as a Catholic country (when it’s one of the least religious states in the world, now), and that as a supposed Catholic country, head-scarves are somehow unforgivably un-French and/or un-Catholic. Of course, what he really meant was “stop being Muslim here.”
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European immigrants have been failing to assimilate into native American culture for centuries.
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Yes, correct on that. …
And yes there are a lot of problems with (also) Islamic people. But I can’t get my head around the fact that most/lots of people don’t see it’s a problem both way’s. And in my opinion (but who am I, just somebody, also not a Muslim) I think the problem is more at the ‘locals’ part instead of the incoming part. Or the people who live here for generations. If you get no change to integrate, how would you do that?
And no you are not helping woman to integrate by forbidding what to wear. You are only stopping them to go to the beach. And worse…
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Eh, probably a misguided scheme to avoid Dhakan sorting
The expectation seems to be that incomers immediately drop their culture, religion, language (while also, as you say, being forced out of the culture in many ways) - but given the long secular nature of French culture and modern irreligiosity, is that also expected of Catholics? Are the speakers of the many regional languages in France expected to abandon their tongues as well?
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To start with. No, but big parts look down upon people using there regionally language outside of the region. Inside the region there is a split between people who only use it and the people using it and ‘standard’ French. But that’s offcource mixed with education level. It’s just (like other countries) not a very friendly country to ‘others’. To be honest, maybe even a very unfriendly country. But who is a ‘other’ is like other big countries a very mixed business.
Catholics do have the same issue, in places, regions, where there are lots of secular people it’s probably not easy to ‘integrate’ when wearing ‘full dress’. Other way around it will be the same. But as a ‘felt like (old)“native” religion’, there is offcource more slack. Lots more…
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Actually. . . I suppose I could see Borat’s swimwear being banned on public safety grounds-- safety to my eyeballs.
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It gets worse!
"Nice Officials Say They’ll Sue Internet Users Who Share Photos Of French Fashion Police Fining Women In Burkinis"
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Trying to prevent people sharing photos of the police forcing women to disrobe?
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When 80% of the adherents of a religion in a country are from the same ethnic group, and that group is one with which the country in question has a troubled history, the boundaries between religious bigotry and racism get blurry.
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There was historically a concerted effort to stamp them out:
For the linguistic unity of France, the Breton language must disappear.
— Anatole de Monzie, Minister of Education, in 1925.
There is no place for minority languages in a France destined to make its mark on Europe.
— Georges Pompidou, Président de la République, in 1972.
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That doesn’t sound very nice at all!
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Since a lot of those stripes seem to be straps, i’d be interested in hearing that scene.
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