Are people in France really this racist? went to calais for 1 day, here's my story

You really need to get out of that eurocentric mindset and learn a bit about what Western countries have done in Africa and in the Middle East.

You're deeply misinformed and it's a bit embarrassin to read

cheers love.

again, we don't owe them again. look at the middle east..as rich as the EU now..and how little they do.

just because we were part of the reason its messed up doesnt mean we need to help them out now. thats life.

half the world is messed up.

I do agree that Middle Eastern countries should take in more refugees, including the US.

But it does? It may seem sentimental but we're human at the end of the day

And how much of that is due to the Eu and US? yh right

Anyway, enough of derailing the thread. France is one of the countries that should suck it up, hard, and take in their share of reguees.

no. if you want them take them in yourself. or donate what it costs to fund one yourself.

unless refugees are necessary economically or at least half justified good luck.

have a good day miss embarrassed.

Nope, but neither do I think they need to travel 4,350km, passing through a dozen countries and crossing a continent, in order to escape the chaos in Syria

so i got there and noticed that everyone looked so angry, old and depressed for some reason -

WARNING: long wall of text incoming (definitely worth the read though).

i have a (white) friend who lives there and he invited me to come for the day since france is only about 3 hours away from london in a car. now, my mum warned me saying that they really hate algerians (im algerian) but i (nicely) told her to shutup because its the 21st century and the **** that happened back in her day probably doesn't.

so i got there and noticed that everyone looked so angry, old and depressed for some reason - it was strange. we went for a drive around the center of calais and got pulled over by some mean looking french policemen with pistols and hand grenades attached to their belt. they stopped us and asked for our papers. we showed them our passports and they let us go. when i asked them why they pulled me over they just said "control".

after that, we see a group of homeless people (children, women, men ...) outside a supermarket and they started talking to us. we learnt that they were actually refugees (they were showing us pictures of babies on fire and loads of other messed up **** that was going on in their country) and they were asking us to buy them water. these guys were legit the nicest people i've ever met. we went in the supermarket and bought them water and food. some pakistani guys from england found us and there and told us about how they got stopped, searched, and interrogated for 4 hours by french police at the border. after those guys left me and my friend agreed that they were talking absolute smack there was no way that happened based off the fact that they were brown lol (or so we thought..).

anyway they left and the supermarket security were giving me and my friend really dirty looks (i assumed it was normal in france to have a permanently angry face - based off the few hours i was there). they got on their phone and 3 police cars come to the scene. they didn't speak to us, they just chilled there and watched us chat to the refugees. we said goodbye and drove off - that's when the police started following us and eventually pulled us over (again). they asked for our passports (again), searched our car and kept asking me if i was a journalist. they found nothing in the car and when i asked them why i was pulled over, they said "control" (again).

it was pretty obvious that we were getting pulled because i was algerian when we thought about the fact that he was living there for 2 years and has never been stopped by police, but we agreed that the ultimate test would be to see if they stop me at the border when i drive back to england. there were 3 cars in front of me trying to get past the border and they went through w/o any problems. guess what happened to me? yep - "control". they searched every inch of my car and myself and gave me the same "control" nonsense and let me through. when i got to the english border i was cracking jokes with the old cockney bordermen about my experience in france and they set me on my way. as i was still going through the border i told one of the english ladies (she was stood with a sign telling people where to go) that she looked beautiful and she smiled, said thank you and i continued driving. i could not believe the massive contrast between english people and the french - the border patrol in france looked like they could put a bullet in your skull at any given second. what is going on lol either british people are the nicest people on earth or the french are just garbage.

i wrote this not to hate on france or the french people but to see if there was maybe an explanation for what happened. i refuse to believe that a country like france can be this openly racist. also what are they feeding their police officers? they're all like 6 foot and built like tanks (even the women). that experience gave me the urge to join ISIS and burn france to the ground lol

Yes, this is a generalisation, but in my experience France is a pretty racist country. I haven't experienced something like that anywhere else and I've visited the US a lot. US people are more shouty about their racism, so at least you can see it for what it is and take it from there. In France it is more subtle. Not saying one is better than the other but it's different and you do notice it less in France but it certainly exists and it's quite strong. You can see it easily with the votes the Front National. I kind of feel for many French people they think unless your family history is French then you will never be French.