h an important position in our country: second language thought in schools, and spoken widely second attitudes of the French especially regarding Arab immigrants from Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco that once had been brought to France after world war 2 to rebuild the country because the French would never accept to do the dirty work and now they want them back to their countries. Let me stop a second here and talk about these guys that moved to France, contributed to rebuilt what it is now considered a powerful country. These immigrants had kids in France that are considered by the French government as being French. But now here’s where comes the racist attitudes: the French never considered these kids as being one of them they even gave them a name “ Beure” which exact translation is “ Butter”. These kids had always faced racism and afflicted to humiliation and prejudgment and stereotyping. The most important stereotype about Arabs in France is that their kids are thefts. These kids that were born there and didn’t had the choice (neither their parents) to be there, they never felt home because of people’s attitudes. “Home” a place that makes you feel comfortable, secure and serene. No this wasn’t these kids reality. In fact when they come back to their home country and they didn’t spoke their family language and that they spoke only French everybody considered them as French and not as a part of the same group or family.This is the reality of millions and millions of kids, wherever they went they were considered foreigners, minorities, aliens…My personal experience thought me a lot especially since I came to the US and this wild melting pot that is LA. Since I came here a year and a half ago my favorite song had always been that from a Nescafe’s commercial “Open-up Open-up…”. This means a lot especially if you come from a small country where ...
