BY JED JALECO DEL ROSARIO
A WHILE ago, I saw a video interview related to the race riots in France. The interviewer asked a man of North African descent why he had immigrated to France if he thought France was racist. His answer was that they (I’m assuming he’s Algerian) had been colonized by France, so now they’re colonizing France, as revenge.
The man’s answer was quite disingenuous.
North and Sub-Saharan Africans are not in France because they are driven by revenge colonization. They are there for the same reason they have migrated to other European countries that have no history with colonialism, like Ireland and Greece for example. They are there for economic reasons. Colonialism is just an excuse and always has been an excuse. If Europe’s economy collapses or if Russia decides to point its nuclear arsenal at the continent, I have no doubt that the vengeful ‘colonist’ will go slinking off back to the Muslim world.
Almost all of the major peoples today have engaged in colonialism in one form or another, including Filipinos, yet it is only Westerners that are expected to atone for it. The Mongols are not expected to deal with resentful migrants, and neither are the Turks, the Japanese, the Tamils, etc… And the reason is that there are no political or economic incentives to do so in these countries.
Not so much in Europe and America. Western Nations are expected to be “anti-racist,” “multi-cultural” and “inclusive” whereas other nations, not so much. So when a North African immigrant claims that he is in France for revenge, there’s some truth in what he says, but it’s a truth meant to conceal a much larger one, and that is the French system permits him to be there, and that is, he and others like him are useful socio-political tools.
Were he in a different country, the consequences of what he said will be taken more seriously by the natives, especially since he’s a self-proclaimed invader./PN
