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bobbieinok

(12,858 posts) Mon Nov 13, 2017, 03:00 PM Nov 2017

Need to teach recent French and British colonial history

France in Algeria - leading to Muslims as legal residents in France.

The British Commonwealth - leading to Jamaicans, Indians, Pakistanis as citizens of UK.
---I remember the anger over this as more and more Commonwealth citizens settled in Britain and could not be legally kicked out....because they were/are citizens!

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Need to teach recent French and British colonial history (Original Post) bobbieinok Nov 2017 OP

Then there's yesphan Nov 2017 #1

Algerian Muslims are separate and unequal. guillaumeb Nov 2017 #2

After they killed off their own citizens they needed people to a variety of jobs malaise Nov 2017 #3

yesphan

(1,587 posts)

1. Then there's

Reply to bobbieinok (Original post)

Mon Nov 13, 2017, 03:08 PM

Nov 2017

French Indochina (Vietnam).

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)

2. Algerian Muslims are separate and unequal.

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Mon Nov 13, 2017, 03:09 PM

Nov 2017

Even when born in France, they are not treated as are the ethnically French.

malaise

(268,664 posts)

3. After they killed off their own citizens they needed people to a variety of jobs

Reply to bobbieinok (Original post)

Mon Nov 13, 2017, 03:16 PM

Nov 2017

Start with the Windrush although quite a few West Indians also fought in WW2. My mother's brother joined the army -survived the war and then died in a motor cycle crash in London.

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