Word: algerianness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Assimilating, yet staying connected to the motherland, is an essential part of the immigrant experience in the U.S. At least on the football field, Europe, too, has learned that diversity can have its rewards. The great Zinedine Zidane is the son of an Algerian; Florent Malouda, born in French Guiana, and Congo-born Claude Makelele will feature for France this year. Turkey once exported guest workers to Switzerland and Germany, and is now seeing a return. Several of its team, including Hamit Altintop and Hakan Balta, are German-born. Germany itself reflects Europe's now swirling populace. Two strikers, Miroslav...
...Parisians were alarmed last Thursday when Paris police marched on the National Assembly demanding hazard pay for areas in which Algerian terrorists were active. France is a nation which never lets its history die, and the strike awoke fear of a right-wing Gaullist seizure of extra-legal power...
...bottom of many of the difficulties facing France lies the Algerian rebellion, which drains France of a million dollars daily, with little apparent result. But since the Second Empire; and her arte of economic growth has now surpassed even West Germany’s. Hoffman notes, “There is no point in telling people that disaster is around the corner as Mendes-Frances does, if when you round the corner you see a new automobile...
...allied with the prosperity is the surprising fact according to Hoffman, that the Algerian War is a popular war. The people seem willing to finance it, and only a minority of intellectual come out for Algerian independence. It seems doubtful that the present situation will change radically in the near future...
...have been open for a year and a half and in the beginning it was very difficult. There was a stiff investigation to get a permit for a night like this," says Yahia as the band finishes up a song by Algerian rai music legend Khaled, before launching into a cover of The Eagles' "Hotel California." "But slowly things are getting easier...