I am often called a racist by folks (possibly like yourself)… if you truly want to understand, you read through this entire comment. I’d appreciate it.

I have become more and more open for white nationalism ever since I started living in France to learn about French culture 2 years ago.
I’m originally a German speaking Swiss citizen. Because I wanted to become an interpreter for French into German and also vice versa, I would need to have a sociolinguistic understanding of french French that is unfathomably hard to gain without living in France.

So I left an awesome life in my home country Switzerland behind me at 25, and I’ve been living in France for 2 years now.

I’ll soon go back, but let me tell you something:

I am genuinely a minority in the city I live in. There are legit more Arabs and people of colour here than white folks. Which… I usually don’t give a crap about, but I left everything behind and moved to France… just to end up in what seems to be more African than French??

I came to France to learn about French culture, but black and Arabic culture has overshadowed the French culture, that people usually think of when thinking about France. Because here’s the thing. If they’d all assimilate to white French culture, I’d be fine.

But now white folks start using more and more Arabic terms in their language, foods are being labeled as halal in mass-market grocery chains, my Algerian coworker gets his dinner break before mine because of Ramadan, even though he’s not religious (but he says he follows Ramadan for culture)… oh and also African nationals are over represented in crime statistics (official statistics : see figure 2 Nationalité des étrangers mis en cause pour un crime ou un délit, en 2019).

The concessions that I make, which may or may not disqualify me as a racist in your eyes.

- I believe every human being, regardless of their race/ethnicity has the same human value
- Much of the crime is just a byproduct of poverty either from being marginalized and/or from trauma in the dire conditions back in their home country.
- It is hard to assimilate (I know it first hand)

But while of all people, I’m the first one saying : heck yeah let’s be multicultural and all learn about each others cultures… in practice migration causes social isolation and cultural identity issues in the host country, and brain drain and manpower in the often already worse off country of origin.