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General Category => 3DHS => Topic started by: Plane on October 18, 2006, 07:26:41 PM

Title: Vive La France
Post by: Plane on October 18, 2006, 07:26:41 PM

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15310706/

While falling birthrates threaten to undermine economies and social stability across much of an aging Europe, French fertility rates are increasing. France now has the second-highest fertility rate in Europe -- 1.94 children born per woman, exceeded slightly by Ireland's rate of 1.99. The U.S. fertility rate is 2.01 children.

Title: Re: Vive La France
Post by: Michael Tee on October 18, 2006, 07:29:33 PM

Can you just hold up that announcement for a few minutes, plane?  sirs is trying to work out how many of those new little baby Frenchmen and Frenchwomen are of the dreaded Muslim religion.

Title: Re: Vive La France
Post by: Plane on October 18, 2006, 07:38:09 PM

Quote from: Michael Tee on October 18, 2006, 07:29:33 PM

Can you just hold up that announcement for a few minutes, plane?  sirs is trying to work out how many of those new little baby Frenchmen and Frenchwomen are of the dreaded Muslim religion.

  Can a Muslim be considered an asimilated Frenchman?

   Can a Muslim be considered French?


    Would a Muslim considerhimself French ?


    If you have said yes three times , what would be the problem?

Title: Re: Vive La France
Post by: Michael Tee on October 18, 2006, 09:53:43 PM

I'm only laughing because copies of the old Toronto Telegram, a now-defunct conservative Toronto daily newspaper, were asking the same questions about the Jews in Canada in the 1920s and 1930s.

It takes a little time, plane, but the answers in the long run are yes, yes and yes.  And I don't see any problem.