I just want to make clear that the lack of assimilation in France i am referring to, according to my family and their friends who live here, is very much a 2 sided affair. From one point of view, the foreign nationals (or new French citizens from foreign countries for that matter) don't assimilate, from the other point of view, the French (which is to say the Euro French) don't accept foreign nationals (or those who aread actually naturalized) as true French people. This is true of their territorial possessions as well. It isn't as though the French are opening their arms and being rejected. It's complicated and too hard to explain without the nuance of spoken wordo and since I am on vacation in don't want to type a novel.


Anyways, I've just been wasting time while waiting to head out to dinner near where the Bastille once stood. I'm going to finish my Pinot Noir and get the kiddos ready for a night out in Paris. Talk to everyone in a few weeks. Go Jags.

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