THE INDEPENDENT DOESN'T LIKE FRANCE

PHOTO: CARTOON on "THE INDEPENDENT"
seems to show dislike towards France
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A TALE OF TWO CULTURES
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While a sober, relaxed British middle class man reacts to the cuts
by making tea in a kitchen with sunlight streaming through the window
and his adoring cat looking up at him,...
a Frenchman with hunched shoulders reacts by making a Molotov cocktail
in his poorly-lit kitchen overshadowed by his neighbours, with an empty
wine glass and even a lighted cigarette close by (that’s how stupid he is).



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Such is the implication in this cartoon from
today’s Independent.
It is difficult to imagine such a crude
stereotype of any non-European racial group
coupled with an implication of white British
superiority being printed in a newspaper that
prides itself on its liberalism.

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(A search of Le Monde shows just one reference
to a Molotov cocktail in recent days.)






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