This post comes in reply to a reader, asking if the current rioting in France could spread to immigrant communities in Russia.
I do not think there is any similar threat of immigrants in Russia rioting. There are two reasons why it won't happen:
1) Immigrants in Russia don’t receive any welfare or social support from the state, their legal rights aren’t protected at all; often when they are murdered or injured, no one cares. They come to Russia to work hard and make as much money as they can. The violence in France is caused by a failed socialist welfare state. When someone doesn't have to make a living, he can just exist, and get all the support he needs. At some point that individual starts thinking that he is entitled to everything he has, and even more; and on top of that he has all the free time on his hands to go out and participate in the car burning “protests”. Russian immigrants are working hard just to survive – they are busy, and happy to get the meager things they do own.
2) Russian law enforcement (and American for that matter) would never allow such chaos in the streets to go on for weeks.. I don’t want to go into the reasons why France has allowed looting and arson in their streets for so long, but I’m sure that such violence would have been stopped within a few hours in America, or in Russia. I’m not advocating bullets and tear gas as handy tools for dealing with social issues, but I am advocating for common sense, the rule of law, and for securing private property and innocent lives.
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Of course French riots could not happen in Russia. Not just because of Russian laws and the level of violence of police, but because the whole sociaty is so much different. France doesn t recognize any difference, every french citizent is supposed to be equal to any other, there are no blacks, no mediteraneanians types. Everyone is equal but not in facts and that is why people are angry they have no qualification and no jobs. In Russia on the countrary no one is equal. Jews or Black better live abroad. The unless they are immortal or very rich.
So they work in very hard conditions and keep quiet. In France there is not such work and not such bad conditions...
So in Russia Immigrants are not excluded from work, they work hard and are discriminated for real, not like the french situation. keep quiet is a matter of life or death. I have seen someone be beaten to death in the center of Moscow before the police could do anything. Nothing like that would EVER happen in France.
Posted by: Joseph | November 24, 2005 12:16 AM