At the opening ceremony of the just-concluded Winter Olympics, the entry of the French team attracted the attention of the author. At that time, the french team's entry music did not have a trace of French elements!
Dvořák's Ninth Symphony, played by the French team at the time of entry, was written by Czechs and completed during his visit to the United States in 1893, and has nothing to do with France. This has to make people sigh, where did Gaul go in the first place?
In fact, we should be sympathetic to France, after all, there are too many Gaulish elements, and some people in France will protest. In 2016, Sarkozy simply said that "the ancestors of the French were Gauls," which caused a protest and forced him to revise his wording.
Today' France is on the verge of becoming a black country. According to statistics, pure-blood blacks have reached 8 million people, close to one-eighth of the total population of France.
Taxi express
France's Foreign Legion is almost all black; the French football team, black figures account for the majority; even sami Nasseli, the star of the Classic French movie "Taxi Express" series, has African ancestry.
Why, in just a few decades, did the once proud Gallic rooster become the "black chicken" it is today? This is inseparable from France's talent absorption policy after World War II.
1. Colonial origins
As we mentioned earlier, france's colonial system was very different from Britain's. The British sent a white governor who was then put in charge of the tribal chieftains below, who had the power to kill everything in the colony.
But France was different, because France failed to catch up with the wave of global land enclosures, and the initial colonies were only part of North Africa, and even some places belonged to the Roman Empire in history. It can be said that the French had very few colonies in the early days.
Fortunately, in order not to give up their superiority in shipping, the British only established a circle of colonies along the coast of the African continent, and did not go deep into the vast interior, so the French took the opportunity to enter the interior of the African continent and occupy the colonies.
French colonization of Algeria
According to the French colonial administration, France occupied one-third of the African continent at its peak of colonialism, and most of west and north Africa was once under its rule.
And France, not as strong as Britain's economic and military power, came up with a completely new way to manage the colonies below.
The first was to abolish the chieftain system and appoint them as officials of the colonial government, and at the same time to set up a parliament in the colonies, so that the tribal high-level became a member of the parliament, allowing them to participate in the administration and deliberation of the government, and everyone was prosperous and lost, and worked together to make the colony prosperous. At the same time, it would also weaken the influence of chiefs in the tribe, giving the colonial government more control over the grassroots.
Culturally, France ordered the elevation of French to a first language, opening schools in the colonies and teaching courses in French. French proficiency is also made a necessary condition for further education and promotion to official positions. Such a cultural invasion made the colony natives more recognizable to The Rule of the French. While The British gentlemen and gentlemen were still enjoying london luxury, French teachers were already teaching the children of the colonies.
In addition, in order to further reduce the influence of the chieftains in the colonies, but also to attract talents, France allowed the colonial elite to obtain French citizenship. Although the French are not all-elite, the elite are all French. In this way, the status of the French in the colony was naturally "superior".
Although France was doing a decent job in the colonies, it was just an illusion in comparison with other colonial powers such as Britain. Any process of conquest is full of blood and killing, where are the natives who are willing to keep their land and do not want to accept the transformation of France?
After four centuries of rule, French influence has reached as far as African countries. More than half of the 55 African countries currently have French as their official language. After the colonies became independent, France's influence and control over them did not reduce much, and many countries still sought arbitration with France when disputes arose. Therefore, France also has the title of "African gendarme".
Second, the urgent shortage of labor
By the end of the First World War, France had buried an entire generation, and although it had vigorously carried out population promotion policies to promote fertility, it would take twenty years for newborns to grow up, and who would build the country in those twenty years?
The French set their sights on their African colonies. France began to recruit a large number of colonial laborers to Go to France to participate in construction. Although these black laborers were not well educated and could only perform some heavy manual labor, they still made great efforts in the industrial construction of France.
At this time, the blacks who came to France were only laborers, and not many had real French citizenship. The real political status of blacks in France began with The Second World War.
Black laborers
The whole world would not have imagined that the French would surrender so quickly. De Gaulle would not have imagined that the lower limit of the Pétain government would be so low.
In the Battle of Dakar, the Vichy French government brazenly sided with the Nazis and sent a fleet to bombard the Allies, which not only made de Gaulle's plan to reclaim the French colonies unfavorable, but also almost killed him under gunfire.
Although in London de Gaulle had assembled more than seven thousand soldiers who had fled France to form a force, he was still powerless in the face of the huge army of Nazi and Vichy France. De Gaulle had to use Montgomery's forces to begin seizing colonies one by one in North Africa, gathering local natives to form a coalition of Free French. The headquarters of Free France were also moved from London to Algiers.
When the Free French returned to Paris, the greeters discovered that de Gaulle's soldiers were half black and half white, and that blacks occupied more than half of the number, totaling more than three hundred thousand.
Charles de Gaulle returned to Paris
For these blacks, the French were initially grateful, and france was not without losses in the war, and soon a new round of construction was coming, which was the juncture of labor shortage. Moreover, these three hundred thousand negroes were trained by the army to ensure discipline, and if they were returned to the colonies at this time, they would not only lose a large amount of labor, but also affect the international prestige of France.
Thus, at de Gaulle's suggestion, France accepted these soldiers from the colonies, and for the first time blacks acquired citizenship in France on a large scale. Since then, the status of blacks in France has gradually risen, and in order to absorb the population, the French government has implemented an open immigration policy, and the conditions for acquiring French nationality are getting lower and lower.
Soldiers of African descent
The three hundred thousand black soldiers before them naturally dragged their families and called on friends. Emigrated to France with relatives and friends, teachers and classmates, elderly colleagues and even next-door neighbours. Suddenly, France's population surged, and France caught up with the express train built after the war.
At the same time, taking advantage of the wave of British colonial independence, France also took the initiative to make some less critical colonies independent, leaving only two dozen key areas to establish military bases and deploy tens of thousands of soldiers.
Another benefit of colonial independence was that France had a large number of allies at the United Nations. Relying on its former influence, France has close ties with its former colonies and holds annual talks between Franco-African leaders to promote political, economic and cultural exchanges between France and African countries.
Third, the talent absorption policy
On the other hand, after the wave of black naturalization after the end of World War II, France joined the Schengen Agreement in 1985. Some black people who cannot pass the immigration review for the time being can first obtain the citizenship of a third country through the way of "curve to save the country", and then the French residency, settlement right, green card, French nationality, step by step to achieve their own goals.
The above is the immigrant that the French have to passively accept, not the highly educated and highly skilled immigrants that France mainly wants to absorb.
The streets of Paris
As a developed country, France's national welfare cannot be described as rich. According to statistics, a person with French citizenship can enjoy more than 400 benefits in his lifetime, even if he does not have to do anything, he can live comfortably until his death.
With extremely high welfare, France did attract a large number of excellent talents at the beginning, and also developed nuclear weapons at the first time, coupled with the influence of African allies, France washed away the shame of World War II and became one of the five permanents.
But in France, many white families are "Dink" and they don't choose to have children or even get married. Many young people in France will choose to spend every day drunk and dreaming, without choosing to go to work or work hard. Even if you go to work, it is a standard eight-hour work system and absolutely no overtime. Every once in a while the French also opt for strike demonstrations as a routine.
In response to this situation, the French government began to choose to encourage childbearing, and each family with only one minor child can receive a subsidy of about 300 euros, which lasts until the child reaches adulthood. And this kind of subsidy can be stacked indefinitely, that is, the more students are born, the more subsidies. Moreover, the government has also introduced a subsidy policy for families with many children to hire nannies, hoping to have more children.
French slums
Such a policy not only did not encourage the Desire to have children in France, but on the contrary stimulated the black poor who emigrated to France through various means. As long as you have a few more children, you can lie down and earn money, why not enjoy it? Today, whenever ten French children are born, six of them are of African descent, and as things go on, the Gauls will sooner or later become a minority in France.
Fourth, the white man gets out of Paris
At the end of world war II, the status of blacks was not as high as we thought, and in today's France, blacks have begun to dominate, during which time, there have been a series of changes.
The first is the shift in the attitude of the grassroots white people towards black people. White French people in the beginning were simply grateful to the Blacks—thank you for saving my country, but this is my country, not yours. There were also national conflicts in France, and the social status of blacks at that time was not much better than that of their American counterparts.
But gradually, the whites found that these black people were not the same as they had imagined, and they did not have the barbaric habits of the African continent, but appeared to be polite one by one. This also made the white people's impression of black immigrants much more improved, and it was not so resistant.
Black French
The second is the government's policy towards blacks, which is experiencing a crisis of aging and low fertility rates, and blacks who have been naturalized can bring a large number of newborns to France to meet the needs of French population growth. I also complain that the French government has begun to vigorously support blacks.
Even in France, the mention of skin color is a political incorrectness. At present, many institutions are under pressure to investigate the number of black people in France, so the data we mentioned earlier, as well as some other data on black French, are mostly estimates.
At present, black people have penetrated into Many industries in France, such as education, finance, medical care, technology, sports, etc., and have become an inseparable part of it. In the Football World Cup, the number of black French players has exceeded half, once reaching as many as 15.
French football team
When you walk the streets of Paris and look at the black people in front of you, you will once wonder whether you are in the capital of South Africa or other developed cities in Africa, only the Eiffel Tower in the distance is still reminding you that this is France.
Like the United States, blacks in France are sensitive. They don't like to hear any discussion about their skin color, and all the news about blacks subconsciously thinks about whether this is a conspiracy against blacks, so the number of demonstrations and protests by black French in recent years has approached the number of French strikes.
Similarly, as one of the origins of the Renaissance, After World War II, France also produced an idea of the White Left Virgin, who felt guilty that France had invaded the homeland of these black people and colonized it. With a psychology similar to atonement, they actively fought for the rights of black French people, and whenever the French government introduced policies against blacks, they always rushed to the front line and cheered for them.
White Leftism
Last year, the Floyd incident broke out in the United States, triggering a massive demonstration, and black people in France also responded with support for their fellow ethnic groups. In the demonstrations on the streets of Paris, there were even black people who shouted: "White people get out of Paris!" The slogan made it unclear to the white people present whose hometown this was.
In the colonial period, the great powers brought endless pain to Africa; today, the increasingly acute immigration contradictions also make them miserable, which is also a kind of natural cycle.
In the face of the population problem, there is nothing wrong with pursuing a fertility policy at home and absorbing immigrants, but the bitter fruit caused by such an unrestrained and unconditional acceptance of immigrants can only be swallowed by oneself. We have no right to evaluate this, but can only learn from it and reflect on ourselves.