To Be French, in a Particular, Unique, French Way...

Galliawatch has a post on journalist Eric Zemmour. I've posted below extracts from the post. But, what caught my attention was Zemmour's reply to the intriguing question:

"What does it mean to live in the French manner?"

And Zemmour answers thus:

"It means giving French names to your children, being monogamous, dressing like the French, eating like the French, cheese for example. Joking in cafés, courting the girls, loving French history, feeling oneself to be the heir to this history and wanting to continue it..."

What a concept: To be French, in a particular, unique, French way!

Here are parts of the interview:

Journalist Stefano Montefiori: Your book is a type of reactionary and populist manifesto.

Eric Zemmour: But I support populism. On the surface things haven't changed. Paris is still beautiful and the girls still make heads turn, but under the surface everything is rotten. Populism is the refusal to renounce our way of life.

Stefano Montefiori: Who is responsible for this attack on traditional France?

Eric Zemmour: Le Monde has written that my book is conspiratorial. But I am not denouncing a conspiracy, I am criticizing an evolution of society imposed by the French ruling elite. In the last forty years this ruling elite has acted in accordance with the three D's: derision, deconstruction, and destruction of France in the name of great ideals: Europe, opening to the world, progress.

Stefano Montefiori: Modernity, globalization, immigration are concerns of everybody, not just France.

Eric Zemmour: That's true but only in France is there such a self-hatred propagated by the ruling elite. They never stop repeating that we are not enough like the Germans, or the Americans, or the Swedes. All models are good except our own. Then, in Italy, there is no strong State, society is used to defending itself. We feel betrayed by the State. We are the country with the largest Muslim community in Europe.

Stefano Montefiori: But the elite that you are denouncing defend laïcité, for example. France is one of the few countries where the burqa, and even the veil at school, are forbidden.

Eric Zemmour: This is residue, insufficient, from a system that is finished. The French model was assimilation, that is, anybody can be French if they make an effort to be French. My ancestors were Berbers of the Jewish religion, they were certainly not French, but today I say that my ancestors are the Gauls. This no longer exists. The Muslims have their own civil code, it's called the Koran. They live among themselves, on the peripheries. The French have been forced to leave.

Later on Montefiori asks Zemmour an intriguing question:

Stefano Montefiori: What does it mean to live in the French manner?

And Zemmour answers thus:

It means giving French names to your children, being monogamous, dressing like the French, eating like the French, cheese for example. Joking in cafés, courting the girls, loving French history, feeling oneself to be the heir to this history and wanting to continue it...

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Posted By: Kidist P. Asrat
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