The French Worry About Discrimination Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, who is actually not a woman, stated with the usual French decisiveness that France faces a "moment of truth" in fighting racial discrimination and "what is being questioned is the effectiveness of our integration model." What integration model? Who is less tolerant of diversity than the French? Would 20% of the music in French radio stations be French if the government didn't mandate it? The French have been perfectly happy to go their own disastrous way as long as it paid for their over-burdened socialist machine. Now, I have no problem with the French. Even in Paris, I got perfect service and treatment so impeccably polite I almost asked for a refund. But I am a white foreigner and my last visit was before Bush went to Iraq and did the exact same thing France did in Ivory Coast - namely, invade a sovereign nation that was supposedly not a threat outside its own borders and impose their own government because it was in the national interests of France. I imagine somewhere between 2003 and about 13 days ago that my reception as an American would have been pretty frosty. But I bet the French are begging to have western Europeans ... or Americans descended from western Europeans ... over for a cup of crappy coffee now. If you want to solve discrimination, it won't happen by having a government official with a girl's name mandate it. He does not seem to recognize what the average man on the street in France does. Letting in anyone, including zealots who believe the entire world is either Muslim or about to become it, is going to cause problems. Discrimination is solved by giving people a fair chance no matter what their last name is ... and by only allowing in people who want to be French. Article Here