zee Fwench and zat 'multiculturalism' fail

"..no European country has been so resolute in refusing the “Anglo-
Saxon model” of multiculturalism and banishing expressions of
difference from its schools and public sector. It’s a principle
deriving from the Revolutionary ideals of 1789 that all French
citizens are indistinguishably French; ethnic minorities effectively
don’t exist, and no statistics exist to reflect their presence in the
workplace, schools, hospitals or prisons. The “one and indivisible
Republic” brooks no compromise on identity – even if racial
discrimination is widely reported in the French labor market as in
housing, education, policing and other aspects of French life.

The “Republican model of integration” worked well for previous
generations of Spanish, Italian or Polish immigrants, easily absorbed
within the national culture of Catholic France; but it has manifestly
failed those from North and sub-Saharan Africa. In the name of a
secular and theoretically color-blind state, French official
statistics refuse even to acknowledge the presence of an immigrant
Muslim community estimated to be perhaps as strong as 6 million, close
to 10 percent of the population...."

google can take you to the whole article at www.****france.com
08/23/12 and elsewhere