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** For another source of friction, France decided to call itself a secular state after expelling Jews and other non-Catholics multiple times and actually being the originating location of the Inquisition. Coincidentally, the secular \
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** For another source of friction, France decided to call itself a secular state after expelling Jews and other non-Catholics multiple times and actually being the originating location of the Inquisition. Coincidentally, the secular \\\"French\\\" culture the country is constantly trying to preserve is indistinguishable from Catholic culture. There are also many arguments over whether France\\\'s widespread anti-Israel sentiments are due to anti-semitism, partly fueled by the high proportion of anti-semitism in France (every Jew who has spent any time in France has a story, usually involving a trip to a rural area)
As it\\\'s probably better to explain than silently cut it off, here is why:
This is coming from my experience as a French-American (though I lived most of my life in France), and as someone mistaken more often for a Jew than for a Christian, for some reason.
AFAICT, there is indeed an anti-Israel resentment in France, as they are seen as being asses to the Palestinians - and a perceived anti-French Israeli tendency. However, it rarely translate to anti-Semitism (apart from violent fringe extremists), which is actually a hughe BerserkButton here since WWII. In fact, I was faced with anti-Christianism, but never anti-Semitism.
What is complicating the issue, however, is that not only some genuire anti-Semites like the comedian Dieudonné are surfing on the anti-Israel sentiment (if they call themselves anti-Zionist, chances are thati\\\'s it), but there is a growing trend to use that to troll the rather impopular current government, precisely beause of the general BerserkButton status anti-Semitism has.
Which is stupid, certainly, but has actually little to do with actual wide-spread anti-Semitism, or misplaced nationalism for that matter.
In fact, if anyone has it bad, it would be the Muslim.
About France enforcing a Catholic culture, well that\\\'s kind of nonsense. France has one of the largest proportions of Atheists in the world, half its Catholics declare not even believing in God and Muslim are becoming a sizeable proportion of the population. There is even a quite large, if relatively mild anti-Catholic trend in France - you will rarely hear good things about Catholics in the French media, for example.
France is often proud of being a secular state, some French even see themselves as [[YouFailHistoryForever heirs of Robespierre]], which is indeed a source of MisplacedNationalism (which I included in the \\\"see themselves as the best country\\\"), but there are reasons for that.
As it\\\'s probably better to explain than silently cut it off, here is why:
This is coming from my experience as a French-American (though I lived most of my life in France), and as someone mistaken more often for a Jew than for a Christian, for some reason.
AFAICT, there is indeed an anti-Israel resentment in France, as they are seen as being asses to the Palestinians - and a perceived anti-French Israeli tendency. However, it rarely translate to anti-Semitism (apart from violent fringe extremists), which is actually a hughe BerserkButton here since WWII. In fact, I was faced with anti-Christianism, but never anti-Semitism.
What is complicating the issue, however, is that not only some genuire anti-Semites like the comedian Dieudonné are surfing on the anti-Israel sentiment (if they call themselves anti-Zionist, chances are thati\\\'s it), but there is a growing trend to use that to troll the rather impopular current government, precisely beause of the general BerserkButton status anti-Semitism has.
Which is stupid, certainly, but has actually little to do with actual wide-spread anti-Semitism, or misplaced nationalism for that matter.
In fact, if anyone has it bad, it would be the Muslim.
About France enforcing a Catholic culture, well that\\\'s kind of nonsense. France has one of the largest proportions of Atheists in the world, half its Catholics declare not even believing in God and Muslim are becoming a sizeable proportion of the population. There is even a quite large, if relatively mild anti-Catholic trend in France - you will rarely hear good things about Catholics in the French media, for example.
France is often proud of being a secular state, some French even see themselves as [[YouFailHistoryForever heirs of Robespierre]], which is indeed a source of MisplacedNationalism (which I included in the \\\"see themselves as the best country\\\"), but there are reasons for that.
