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NEWS > EVERYONE ELSE > FRANCE MAKES IT HARDER FOR FRENCH PEOPLE TO REMAIN FRENCH
FRANCE MAKES IT HARDER FOR FRENCH PEOPLE TO REMAIN FRENCH
December 30 2011
Paris, France – For a variety of reasons France, and the French in general, have always seemed to take a beating in respect to public perception. The notion that they are weak, quitters, and snobby is pretty much universal and completely belies the history of the nation, but still it persists.
In actual fact, France is arguably one of the most important nations to ever exist, on par with Rome and Greece. Their influence has spread the world over, bringing culture and civilization to dozens of nations and, perhaps most importantly, civilizing Britain and evolving the English language. Without France, there might very well not be a United States and English might be a dead language. That is something that should garner a much greater level of respect than the French people currently enjoy.
Of course, that is history, ancient history, and the France of a thousand years ago is simply not the France of today. The borders may be the same, the people may hold an ethnic lineage, but it is a different team and that team is not doing itself any favours, at least if they are trying to sound less snobby, especially after putting new restrictions on what even qualifies a person as French, whether they are born there or not.
“Becoming French is not a mere administrative step. It is a decision that requires a lot of though. Applicants will no longer be able to claim allegiance to another country while on French soil,” reads the new rule which will take effect January 1st.
Ostensibly the rule is designed to weed out immigrants not interested in adopting
French culture, but certain clauses may also eliminate even native born persons from claiming French citizenship, namely the language clause.
“The concern that many people have here is that any immigrants must be able to speak French at least as fluently as a 15-year old native. However the influence of English culture in particular has caused that standard to erode, which effectively reduces the power of the rule and makes it so that many people, even natives, will not be able to live up to the standard,” said a French government insider. “This was a controversial aspect of the rule. They are using a very limited pool of people against which to judge fluency and many people across the country, young and old, simply won’t live up to that standard which means that their citizenship could be stripped away.”
The rule, as yet, does not allow a citizenship to be removed, but that may be coming as the country increases its standards in an effort to keep the riff raff out.
“There is this vision of creating the ultimate French culture and that could very well result in many people simply not being eligible to be French, even if they are French, and that will result in a lot of unhappiness and a very privileged nation,” continued the insider. “We hope it does not reach this level. We hope that native French persons will be able to retain their citizenships forever, but we French do not tolerate very much that is beneath us, and many of these people are beneath us which could result in them being forced to leave the country.”
As usual, the rule has been protested by advocates screaming in a mixture of French, English, and other languages.
Emil Uliya, International Correspondent
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