French M/C Protest

[El Zilcho]

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France has a good history for that kind of stuff, and the culture to go with it. Canada's still new and working on both.

Canada is and will remain to be multicultural. I doubt that it will reach the levels of unity that would allow all riders (or any other subset of society) to stand up against a cause that does not affect majority of the population.

It's not that Canadians won't stand against anything---take the CRTC's ruling about Internet throttling for example. But that was something that would affect riders and non-riders alike.

 

[jc100]

Canada is and will remain to be multicultural. I doubt that it will reach the levels of unity that would allow all riders (or any other subset of society) to stand up against a cause that does not affect majority of the population.

It's not that Canadians won't stand against anything---take the CRTC's ruling about Internet throttling for example. But that was something that would affect riders and non-riders alike.

France is very multicultural. Large populations of Algerians, Senegalese, Tunisians and those are just the immigrants from former French colonies. There's actually a massive racism problem in France, Jean Marie LePen rose to power as a prominent politician on a repatriation ticket there due to the large numbers of immigrants. There's a huge anti-racist movement ongoing in the country trying to stem the upsurge of skinhead idiots. The riots a few years ago were of disaffected young immigrants being unable to find work.

The real reason that I think so many motorcyclists were able to rally themselves is more to do with the motorcycle being a true transport alternative rather than just a hobby in the country, that and the traditional role of people power. Remember your history of the Bastille!!!!

 

[Raf_gsxr]

Thats SICK. Too much overheating tho.

 

[mxs]

Wonderful, except for this ....

 

[Myztyk]

France is very multicultural. Large populations of Algerians, Senegalese, Tunisians and those are just the immigrants from former French colonies. There's actually a massive racism problem in France, Jean Marie LePen rose to power as a prominent politician on a repatriation ticket there due to the large numbers of immigrants. There's a huge anti-racist movement ongoing in the country trying to stem the upsurge of skinhead idiots. The riots a few years ago were of disaffected young immigrants being unable to find work.

France is completely multicultural and sadly there exists a ton of unrest between groups. Hell, this is the government that tried to distract people from the global economic crisis by blaming rising crime rates on Gypsies! lol

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