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In this speech, Chirac contrasts the situation of older generations of immigrants (coming from Spain, Portugal or Poland) to what he considers the current "overdose" of immigration, mostly from Muslim Arabs and Blacks. He deplores the situation of working-class French who have trouble making ends meet and see next door some immigrant family, with a man, three or four spouses and a host of children, living off Welfare and not working — and generating noise and smell. He then explains that in such conditions, the French worker, without being a racist, is bound to become mad (this is a called a Refutation in Rhetoric ) — an explanation of the successes of Jean-Marie Le Pen , campaigning on anti-immigrant platform. This speech had beend made tremendously (in)famous by a sampling reprise in the eponymous title-song by the French band Zebda (composed of people of Maghebine origin), in 1995. Zebda - '' Le Bruit Et L'odeur '' - “Le bruit et l'odeur” 1995 SEE ALSO EXTERNAL REFERENCES |
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