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Originally Posted by Sundae
I perceive France as having more racial trouble than Great Britain. But you're more flammable than we are. Of you ignore the riots last year, we don't set fire to things all that often. It must come from the culture of having flambe dishes at the table  |
I kind of want to agree with you, inasmuch as the French are far more likely to move to organised action and civil disobedience than Brits. But, the flipside to that is that british protests are very, very likely to turn into disorganised rioting, and we have a greater tendency to to focus anger on 'wealthy' individuals and their property during such unrest. The looting and burning of shops and small businesses was absolutely consistent with British civil unrest pretty much throughout the modern era.