French Social and Cultural Contest in the 1990's
- Created by: jessbrickell123
- Created on: 31-03-15 13:27
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- Les Banlieues (the suburbs)
- racial conflict
- evokes a negative set of connotations
- drugs
- crime
- deliquency
- civil disorder
- Islamic fundamentalism
- terrorism
- not full of affluent middle classes
- composed of high-rise blocks full of the poorest of Frances population~
- 'les exclus' - those outcast from playing an active role in and enjoying the fruits of the affluent society
- problems started to arise in early 1980's,
- etes chauds (hot summers) of 1990/1991
- violent confrontations between suburban youths and the police took place in major cities in France
- etes chauds (hot summers) of 1990/1991
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