District of Paris one of the worst housing projects, new immigrants streets, bear names such as Cezanne, Picasso and terry, especially if the stamps on the French tradition of its residents.
However, whether it is a great master is not made up of idyllic image name, les woodland garden project, or in the bushes, capture the French slum, a closed world, many residents do not speak French daily reality.
Crime soared, the unemployment rate is estimated to be about 40%, the national average of nearly 4 times. Montfermeil Mei city hall does not provide official figures.
Only 17 kilometers (10.5 miles) from Paris, les woodland garden is parisians light-years from around the world.
Les woodland garden, the French immediately around large cities with other projects, such as to cover the country's special brand integration, make new immigrants arriving into the French culture, become one with it regardless of their origins. Despite a quiet debate, the French authorities, regardless of their political color, has been standing in a French model, color blindness, in contrast, a dynamic melting pot concept.
Story of France to the United States is often seen as the opposite of pro, in racial and ethnic calculation in the government's census and minority rights does not exist, because everyone have a Shared identity, "the people of France." Many French ensign of the word "multiculturalism".
But the housing projects, such as les woodland garden, often cut off the bad public transportation city, how many assimilation really in France and the French model of integration, long national pride whether to raise questions, is wearing thin.
Even from the former French colony in north Africa, many in their third generation, a large part of the residents of Les woodland garden, is the cohesion and mainstream Muslim immigrants.
Patrick, a demographer Simon is one of the leading French model has a basic defect, as time goes by, more and more obvious.
, "Simon said:" this is a model based on the difference of concealment. Problem is that the minority groups is more and more obvious, many of them originated in France's former colonial north African muslims, because "we see them, we can't ignore their existence."
Even the citizens of the second and third generation of foreign origin are thought to be different, to deal with.
Statistical personnel shall not to remember the origin of the people, the complicated research.
But has ended in the northeast of Paris Seine - SAN but in French church spire perched on a postcard visual content people wearing a beret and carry bread.
King of France was buried in holy but cathedral, central city, but in the region has become the most traditional.
Simon, a study by the second generation of immigrants and their descendants, 75% of the total population in the city. It includes from the French overseas departments (8%), was French, but the color. Unemployment rate is 16.5%, in 2009, the INSEE, according to the national statistical agencies. But the economic leader, Simon said, in the concept of white minority immigrants and their children are successfully absorb new pressure.
In Les woodland garden, the most common complaint is still poor and isolated in mainstream French public transport distance, make rice, forest park. It takes up to 90 minutes, went to Paris.
"They have done let us in the middle of the us, said:" 34 years old, born in French Algerian parents. "Who is this, they don't want our consolidation." Residents of favorite project, the man, who with a private fire department, declined to give his name.
Discrimination is a fact that ethnic minorities living in France, and by Ipsos (Ipsos) feast "le monde" in this year, according to a poll released no signs that are likely to reduce. Fully 70% of respondents said "there are too many foreigners in France." Finger pointed out, the most important thing is that, in the Muslim faith.
 



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