MARINE LE PEN
(Marion Anne Perrine Le Pen)
This is a complaint similar to that made by anti-immigrant Americans. France, like most other countries of the world, has never had the large scale immigration of today, nor have they had such a large proportion of the same ethnicity at once—in this case, Muslim North Africans. There were never, before the last decades, enough immigrants of any ethnicity in France to have a choice of maintaining their traditional languages and culture and not learning French or otherwise assimilating. America, in contrast, had large immigrations of different ethnicities, and despite the erroneous beliefs of immigration opponents, these blocs of immigrants have wherever there was sufficient density—usually cities, they maintained their old language and other customs. However, their children and the next generation in almost all cases have abandoned the language and many of the customs of the old country. This was true of the Germans, the Irish, the Italians, the European Jews, the Russian Jews, the Scandinavians’, and the Hispanics with their different cultures.
This is a fundamental difference between fascistic and extreme conservative vis a vis democratic and liberal points of view. Thomas Jefferson was the greatest proponent of the right of individuals in a society to not only question the major civilizational choices that have been made but to possibly change them for each generation which is exactly what has happened in America and most liberal democracies. However, many argue the contrary that certain fundamental civilizational; choices are so fundamental that they are immutable and may not be changed. The alternative for those who do not care for those choices is to leave the country.
Marion Anne Perrine "Marine" Le Pen is a French politician and lawyer who has been President of the National Rally (previously the National Front) since 2011. She has been the member of the National Assembly for the 11th constituency of Pas-de-Calais since 2017.
