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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
More educated, liberal, and urban immigrants (like the kind Canada attracts) integrate into host countries more readily. France has drawn most of its immigrants from uneducated, conservative, and rural populations.
The French certainly aren’t models of tolerance and integration. And their economic model isn’t good at creating the kinds of of jobs that immigrants typically leverage to climb up the ladder into the middle class. But if you swapped everyone who has immigrated to France over the last 60 years with everyone who has immigrated to Canada, France would be having an easier go of things and Canada would have problems.
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Not so fast. France kind of owes these uneducated, conservative and rural populations from the colonies they subjugated for hundreds of years. This is a result of their own damn foreign policy coming home to roost. Canada did not occupy and subjugate foreign lands for any period of time.
Like the great Russell Peters said when joking about the British finally leaving India and the Indian response: "We're coming with you!"