Just been in France recently. The radio really plays only French-African music. At least 90% of the time. I don't think it's anything racist about that. It just that France changed and I think most of Europe will change as well due immigration. We will see more African, Asian and maybe middle-eastern culture.

Evidently we're not allowed to notice anything change in the event it can be perceived as being racist? How is it those people are comfortable making such a statement online? There is bias, prejudice, and bigotry before you even get to racism. Conveniently supremacy is forgotten about unless a very strong character accusation is needed. I very much dislike how these "conversations" around race relations are occurring. I think I'm just starting to not care about how others perceive whatever I say. If they can't have a conversation without immediately suspecting the other party of racism then maybe they need to stay offline.

Like London, Paris is really quite big. While the city is constantly changing, all the old neighborhoods haven’t suddenly lost their identity. This fear of losing “Paris proper” is completely overblown.

Culture is always in a state of flux. It’s not sad, it just is. I’m not sad I won’t get to see Victorian London. In the narrative arc of humanity things keep getting better, not worse.

I'm not sure how common this preference is. I'm personally always sad when unique cultures diminish or disappear and this seems to be a not unusual sentiment judging by popular media. Whether this is the Cherokee or Victorian England there are valuable and interesting things and losing them is sad.

Victorian England will forever live on in Sherlock Holmes novels, Ripperana, Dickens Fairs, steampunk. There is an article about Victorian customs on the front page. It is literally one of the most overexposed, overplayed, and overused historical eras.

i haven’t ever visited abidjan proper. the people don’t even speak their native language. some are ashantis but can’t speak a word of twi. if you weep for a fabled paris, i weep for abidjan. and i weep for algiers too.

I think any negative connotation there is subjective.

There's no racism in France because there are no races there, and that's an administrative decision that comes from the very top of the State.

no sure why people downvoted you. Maybe people are unaware of how stupid the french state has become when dealing with immigration.

Yes, they did write a text saying that races officially don't exist, as there's just one human race ( as if this decision would solve any issue, whether that's racism or immigrant integration)

> they did write a text saying that races officially don't exist

Not correct, they updated the constitution to remove the word race.

https://www.france24.com/en/20180628-race-out-gender-equalit...

People probably don’t understand this is a joke