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Revision:French Vocab - Racism - Le Racisme

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le pays d'acceuil - host country

un immigré - an immigrant

un ressortissant - national

le carte de séjour - residence permit

l'insertion (f) - integration

l'asile (m) - refuge, sanctuary

un sans-papiers - illegal immigrant (love that word!)

le patrimoine - heritage

la diversité - variety

la mode de vie - lifestyle

s'insérer - to fit in

s'intégrer - to integrate (into society)

acceuillir - to welcome

appartenir à - to belong to

régler - to put right

repatrier - to repatriate

ethnique - ethnic

clandestin/illégal - illegal

mal payé - badly paid

marginalisé - excluded (love that word too!)

méfiant - distrustful

raciste - racist séparatiste - separatist

le Front National - National Front party

le Maghreb - Maghreb (from Algeria/Morocco/Tunisia)

le pays natal - native land

le pays d'origine - native land

avoir des préjugés raciaux - to be racially prejudiced

juif/juive - Jewish

la couleur de la peau - the colour of one's skin

aborder un problème - to tackle a problem

mentir - to tell lies

un témoin - a witness

in témoignage - an eye-witness account

se moquer de quelqu'un - to laugh at someone

la barrière de la langue - the language barrier

une difficulté - a difficulty

trouver un logement - to find a place to live

se rendre compte de - to realise

traiter quelqu'un avec respect - to treat someone with respect

une prestation chômage - unemployment benefit

une allocation - a benefit

les impôts (m) - taxes

le pouvoir - power

francais de souche - native french (litt. of root)

un devoir - a duty


Comments

These notes provide useful vocab on the topic of racism.


They were originally submitted by Cunning Linguist in this thread on TSR Forums.