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...explained not just by the fact that torture may have been used, but by the sense that the U.S. has failed to live up to its own ideals. For many non-Americans, the U.S. elections hold out the promise of change, of renewed leadership. "A lot of what French people identify as negative influences and trends do emanate from American society, but much of what French society strives for and aspires to often first takes root in the U.S. as well," says an adviser to the French government. "So, no, [French Socialist leader] Ségolène Royal didn...
...dispiace! Uhh sono Gilberti…mia famiglia, ça va?” my dad managed in his cacophonous dialect of English, French, and Italian...
...paying the price." The PP has also linked economic woes to what it believes is widespread anxiety over Spain's burgeoning immigrant population. During Monday's debate, Rajoy blamed Zapatero for 2005's mass regularization of immigrants, arguing that they "couldn't all fit." Borrowing a page from French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Rajoy also repeated his party's call for greater "control and order" of immigrants, promising, if elected, to require them to sign a contract agreeing to conform to "Spanish values...
After nearly 75,000 French Jews were handed over to the Germans by the Vichy government during World War II, atonement on behalf of the current French government seems altogether appropriate. Asking ten-year-olds to read about the horrific deaths of their fellow children, however, may not be the best way to do this. Sarkozy is not an educator, and as a consequence his attempt to design a comprehensive curriculum for schoolchildren is inane in comparison to his political decisions. Sarkozy obviously never consulted French educators on his plans for the French education system, ignoring both the logistics...
...likely to become embroiled in the personal horror of the individual they are studying and thus miss the horror of the Holocaust as a whole. Even the horror of the Holocaust as a whole does not properly illustrate the horror of war crimes and genocide as a whole. The French government’s demons are far too numerous to be exorcised with education about the Holocaust alone. The French government has committed atrocities equal in scope and destruction in its bloody history of slavery and colonialism. The implications of those actions are as salient today as those...