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...They have canned Algerian orange juice there, which is really a drag. But you get used to those kind of things. You learn to tolerate them," Schecter says. although he didn't like some of the food, Schecter says, he cultivated--as a young teen-ager in a strange land--a taste for caviar and vodka while there...
...persistence of French language, culture and ideas can only in part be explained as a reaction against Islamic limits on freedom. It is also the result of post-war political and economic changes. The war divided the landscape of Algerian history. It lasted over seven years and left its mark everywhere...
...French left the city suddenly and totally. In a few days their homes were evacuated and in a few more days, they were reinhabited by Algerian squatters who later received official squatters rights. A period of near anarchy ensued when hundreds of refugees stormed the cities and begged for food in the streets. A crime wave swept the country, stimulated by a fanatical right-wing faction of the French army that distinguished itself by opening fire on as many unsuspecting groups of people as possible. In the country, peasants began seizing land that the French "colons" had abandoned, and within...
...they describe the common experiences which brought the nation together. They are a good starting point for the development of a modern national culture. Unfortunately, as the legends become more legendary, they become harder to believe. The French are depicted as monsters who thrive on blood sacrifice and their Algerian victims behave more and more like model revolutionaries. It is not surprising that many Algerians, particularly the young who don't clearly remember and who are sick of hearing about it, have developed a certain nostalgia for French culture. These same people are often extremely pan-Arab, but they consider...
This French-Arab attitude is partly a product of France's colonial policy of assimilation, and the repercussion of French and Algerian traditions and writing about "the Mediterranean genius." Camus once wrote, "North Africa is one of the few countries where East and West live together...the most essential element in the Mediterranean genius springs perhaps from this encounter unique in history and geography...the truth of a Mediterranean culture exists and manifests itself on every point...