As most of you probably know there are heavy riots in France, it started by now 12 days ago deu to the police chasing down 2 kids. Unfortunately for them they hid in a transistor room, thus being electrocuted. Now this may not look as a big deal to you, but it was to many kids down there.
As far as what i have picked up from the news and other sources show me that the neighbourhoods are really decaying in wich the riots broke lose, the french governement started the ghetto forming down there 20-30 years ago in the decades of the imigrating workers. Now this may not look like a big deal again, but these people live in rather poor situations. They feel betrayed and forgotten. And now, 30 years of rage is breaking out, the only thing i fear is that they wont get any good attention on the situation.
This doesnt discribe the topic name yet, let me explain on, shant we?
This morning, after smashing my alarm clock for waking me up i strawled downstairs for breakfast, following my usual rythme i came down to the news, so i flipped on the tv and changed the channel.
After a couple of minutes it showed a american news paper, i believe it was the chicago or the new york times, not sure on that though.
The thing that struck me the most was the hughe title if showed:
Europe: Wake up, its war
Now this set me on fire, literaly. It showed a awfull lot of ignorance to the situation for me, in school im working on a subject showing on how city's are build up at all sides, including population. The title showed me imediatly that someone saw a picture/movie of the riots all over france and decided to make some splashy headline of it. Is it just me or can one be so extremely ignorant? How does the other media show's this in America? I wonder what those people where thinking, really......
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