{"id":69141,"date":"2007-08-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2007\/08\/22\/les-frenchies-vus-par-les-britanniques-en-train-denvahir-la-france\/"},"modified":"2007-08-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-22T00:00:00","slug":"les-frenchies-vus-par-les-britanniques-en-train-denvahir-la-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2007\/08\/22\/les-frenchies-vus-par-les-britanniques-en-train-denvahir-la-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Les Frenchies<\/em> vus par les Britanniques en train d’envahir la France"},"content":{"rendered":"

Le ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne de l’immigration tr\u00e8s sp\u00e9cifique et tr\u00e8s exceptionnelle \u00e0 nombre de points de vue des Britanniques vers la France est une bonne occasion d’appr\u00e9cier des jugements non-id\u00e9ologiques sur la France vue du dehors. Ces jugements non-id\u00e9ologiques et d\u00e9gag\u00e9s d’arri\u00e8re-pens\u00e9es politiques et culturelles sp\u00e9cifiques sont d’autant plus int\u00e9ressants \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer dans le cadre de la concurrence entre la France et le monde anglo-saxon.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tLe Daily Telegraph<\/em> (journal particuli\u00e8rement anti-fran\u00e7ais) consacre tout un cahier d’articles et d’enqu\u00eates sur l’installation des Britanniques en France : \u00abProperty in France<\/em>\u00bb, pr\u00e9sente sur son site ce jour<\/a>. Il entre dans le cadre d’une rubrique r\u00e9guli\u00e8re sur le sujet, montrant son importance pour les Britanniques : \u00abMore Britons than ever are buying and renovating properties in France. Miranda Ingram, our French property expert, will be offering daily advice and leading debates on everything from developing in the Dordogne to living in the Loire.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tParmi les nombreux articles et commentaires contenus dans cette rubrique, on trouve beaucoup de jugements de Britanniques sur la France, sur les conditions de vie en France, etc. La critique la plus g\u00e9n\u00e9rale de tous ces points de vue britanniques concerne les Britanniques eux-m\u00eames, et leur d\u00e9sint\u00e9r\u00eat pour la langue fran\u00e7aise, ou leur absence d’effort pour la parler, lorsqu’ils sont en France. Dans tous les cas, ces textes et remarques, souvent de simples citoyens, sont en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral tr\u00e8s laudateurs pour la France. Certains sont tr\u00e8s instructifs.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tNous retenons celui-ci, d’une lectrice du Daily Telegraph<\/em>, dans la rubrique \u00abProperty in France: A foreign invasion?<\/em>\u00bb, qui sollicite les avis des lecteurs. Madame Mary Giles fait ces remarques, qui ont \u00e9t\u00e9 publi\u00e9es le 14 ao\u00fbt<\/a>, qui m\u00e9riteraient d’\u00eatre m\u00e9dit\u00e9es par nombre d’intellectuels parisiens que l’objectivit\u00e9 vertueuse pousse \u00e0 privil\u00e9gier le d\u00e9nigrement syst\u00e9matique et confortable de la France ferm\u00e9e, frileuse, hostile \u00e0 l’autre, r\u00e9tive \u00e0 l’immigration, etc. (O\u00f9 l’on voit, soit dit en passant, qu’il est bien utile de lire l’anglais pour apprendre des choses int\u00e9ressantes sur la France.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abI love living down here in rural France and am constantly amazed by how warm, friendly and welcoming the locals are. This is in spite of the British accounting for almost 10 per cent of the population in my area.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbAnd especially in spite of the fact that those Brits tend to be Mail or Telegraph-reading types who are not desperately bright nor sensitive to local feelings. I remember laughing out loud the first time an ex-pat told me her three reasons for moving down here: to cash in the equity in her house, to enjoy a lower cost of living and to escape all the economic migrants who were swamping England. I really thought she was joking. But many Brits down here say that they’ve come partly to get away from the ruin caused to Britain by immigration.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbWhich is ironic, really, because the French government says that 13 per cent of those living in France are either first generation immigrants or foreign nationals. That figure is much higher than any credible ones I have seen for the UK. Meanwhile, Migration International says that more than 20 per cent of the French population has at least one foreign parent or grandparent. So even allowing for their breathtaking lack of self awareness about their own statuses, my ex-pat friends aren’t really escaping immigration, are they?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbThey go on to moan about how Britain is losing its culture. It’s true that France’s traditional attitudes, values and way of life are considerably more intact than the UK’s. And certainly the mainstream population respects and admires French literature, philosophy, music, cuisine, terroir, cinema and so on in a way that our proud-to-be-dumb masses simply would not recognise.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbBut this relative cultural purity cannot be a result of French blood being undiluted by immigration. According to Tony McNeil of the University of Sunderland: …over the last two hundred years, France has received more immigrants than any other European country. By 1930 in fact, France had a higher percentage of foreigners in its population than the United States.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbSo by all means come to live in France. But please leave all the BNP\/Daily Telegraph rhetoric back in Blighty.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tMis en ligne le 22 ao\u00fbt 2007 \u00e0 12H00<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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