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Default Faking the South of France

On 30 Sep 2006 10:27:35 -0700, "aem" > wrote:

>sf wrote:
>> On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 23:43:07 +0200, (Victor Sack)
>> wrote:
>>
>> >Depends on where you actually want to go... to France or to a noxious
>> >version of Maghreb... Unfortunately, Marseille can no longer be
>> >considered a true French or Provençal city. It is full of North-African
>> >Arab underclass of a particularly unsavoury kind.

>>
>> Welcome to the real world, bud. Calfornia has been in this position
>> for decades.

>
>What a strange thing to say. Of the scores of significant immigrant
>groups in California, North-African Arabs must be pretty far down the
>list. According to the 2000 census, about 0.005 of the population of
>California is of Arab descent or origin, of which the largest groups
>are from Syria and Lebanon. Egypt accounts for less than 0.0001 of the
>population. You must be very sensitive to the presence of the
>North-African Arab underclass.
>
>Or did you mean that California hasn't been considered truly French for
>decades? -aem


Are you actually that stupid or just acting stupid to entertain
yourself?