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...Motorsport Valley. About a third of those companies, which craft everything from engines for rally cars to brakes for NASCAR racers, service the half-dozen Formula One teams based in the area. "While they play the Marseillaise when Renault win" a Grand Prix, says Aylett, much of the French-owned team's work is "actually done in Oxfordshire...
...Using the highest of those estimates, those four categories represent nearly 22% of France's population - a group that includes arguably the biggest victims of racism and discrimination. The vast majority of French people want to change that. The question...
...some of France's founding principles. President Nicolas Sarkozy, for one, has broken ancient taboos by suggesting France study American-style equal opportunity, quotas and the use of ethnic data within official statistics to get a more accurate picture of the nation's face. "There are two Frances," Arab-French businessman Yazid Sabeg told the daily Libération. "One wants to look things in the face - meaning the way demographics in this country have changed. The other is conservative France, which is prone to immobility in the name of largely artificial equality." (See pictures of France's Bastille...
...That's a view widely held across French society. But in a sign of change, more and more voices are speaking up to support Sarkozy's and Sabeg's ideas. The number of minority characters on television, film and in the media generally has noticeably increased over the past few years. People in other industries have begun pointing out the practical problems created by the legal ban on including ethnic data in official statistics. "From a sociological point of view, I'm for it, just as I'd be inclined to include any qualitative statistic as revelatory and essential...
...Read a TIME story about the Afghan boxer who won French citizenship...