10-12-2020, 08:30 PM
(10-12-2020, 06:06 PM)F2d5thCav Wrote: @"NightskyeB4Dawn"
FWIW, I don't think they're trying to push buttons with "suburb".
The word in French is banlieu. The situation in Paris is this --
The city center is kept somewhat orderly. Of course, neighborhoods where the rich and well-connected live are the best protected. What makes Paris so geographically large is that it is surrounded by banlieu's. I don't have a crime map for all of the banlieu's but know that some of them arose as housing projects* for other-than-French ethnic groups after World War II. And those banlieu's (suburbs) have been plagued with crime for years.
Even so, outright attacks on police stations is a relatively new development.
* Detail note. Where these projects were built were typically sleepy towns on the outskirts of Paris before World War II. The non-French parts of the population increased following World War I, but really took off in the 1960s when France abandoned attempts at control of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia.
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The word suburb, is being used to describe almost every area where demonstrations or rioting is taking place.
The image most people have of a suburb is a large area of single family homes, and gated communities.
When you use the term the "projects" or inner city housing, a whole other image comes to mind for most Americans. The media is using the former as a description of the later, with purpose.
In the French article it may have been just a translation word choice, but I believe they were following the American example. It is all about instilling fear and doubt.
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