To an extent that would surprise many Americans misled by immigration-enthusiast propaganda, France too sees itself as a Its national self-image is built not around race, but around mastering French language and culture. Thus Leopold Senghor , a black African who wrote exquisite French poetry about served in the French cabinet way back in the 1950s, before becoming the first president of independent Senegal.
The French believe in the assimilative power of their language so much that, for 175 years, they've taken criminals from around the world, given them new French names and taught them French, and molded them into perhaps the finest fighting unit in the world: the Foreign Legion.
That's why the rioters, most of whom were born in France to immigrants, speak French. The French abominate bilingual education as one of those awful American multiculturalist ideas.
What evidence do the pundits have to convict the French of discrimination? Essentially, it's the immigrant ethnicities' lack of accomplishment.
Back in September, I was widely denounced for pointing out that the low average IQs of the people stuck in New Orleans meant that the post-hurricane collapse of law and order there was entirely predictable. Many people, especially intellectuals, don't like to think about IQ. But it matters.
The French, being the ultimate with a deep-rooted ideological contempt for multiculturalism, have made it illegal to collect statistics by ethnicity. But we can roughly estimate the IQ of France's Muslims from the studies assembled in the landmark 2002 book IQ and the Wealth of Nations by Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen.
Perhaps most relevant for assessing the French immigrants' IQs: two studies in the Netherlands of Moroccan immigrants—many immigrants in France come from Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. They averaged 84 and 85. Likewise, Turks in the Netherlands scored 88 and 85.
The black Africans, who are committing much of the arson, average even lower. Lynn and Vanhanen tabulated 31 studies of national average IQ in black countries. The highest recorded was 80.
It's likely that black Africans in France score higher than in Africa, due to better nutrition, health, and education—just as African-Americans average about 85, well above their African cousins.
But the key point is this: the IQ gap between the white majority in France and the Muslims appears to be at least as large as the IQ difference between whites and African-Americans —which causes so many problems in this country.
But few countries have ever valued raw brainpower more than the French do, with their obsession with Cartesian rationality, abstraction, and theory.
The French state has constructed a society that is both hierarchical and meritocratic , with much highly competitive testing of students. Entry into the French elites depends upon passing exams to first get into the prestigious colleges, or Grandes Écoles.
Then, to graduate from college in France, you must pass a final exam in which you write an abstruse but facile philosophical essay off the top of your head in a few hours.
But one reason for this might be that, unlike Americans who will tolerate inane tripe from their pundits and politicians, the French like their political performers to be cerebral dazzlers. They just don't have much patience for affirmative action celebrities.
The French admiration for brains applies to private industry as well. The French don't work very hard, with a 35-hour workweek and a minimum of five weeks of vacation annually. But they work smart, with a high enough productivity per hour worked to afford a way of life that remains widely envied.
The standard neocon response to immigration, clearly seen for example in a derivative thinker like Tamar Jacoby, is that mass immigration would be all hunky-dory if it weren't for those evil leftist intellectuals (probably of French descent) who seduce innocent immigrants into identity politics, affirmative action, etc.
And, of course, free speech—never France's strong point —will have to be replaced by laws to suppress the inevitable native protests, especially when affirmative action is seen to be failing.
Not for the first time on VDARE.COM, we see that diversity is not strength . It's weakness—the subversion of hard-won liberal principles (quotas are incompatible with freedom of association and equality before the law ). And, back of that, it's rioting in the streets.
Moral: If you want to preserve the civilized world's traditional freedoms, don't import large groups of foreigners with radically different average IQs.
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