Need to teach recent French and British colonial history

[bobbieinok]

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!

[yesphan]

1. Then there's

French Indochina (Vietnam).

[guillaumeb]

2. Algerian Muslims are separate and unequal.

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

[malaise]

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

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.