{"id":469,"date":"2019-01-17T11:14:49","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T11:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breaking-the-silence.online\/index.php\/2019\/01\/17\/discrimination-and-xenophobia-materialise-in-specific-ways-in-france\/"},"modified":"2024-09-14T06:25:03","modified_gmt":"2024-09-14T06:25:03","slug":"discrimination-and-xenophobia-materialise-in-specific-ways-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amaliafoka.com\/breaking-the-silence\/index.php\/2019\/01\/17\/discrimination-and-xenophobia-materialise-in-specific-ways-in-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Discrimination and xenophobia materialise in specific ways in France"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The government<\/strong> has launched a public awareness campaign to make plastic<\/strong> bags<\/strong> taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

It\u00a0<\/span>has run television ads<\/strong> that pixelate plastic<\/strong> bags<\/strong> with other cultural taboos<\/span><\/strong> like nudity, smoking cigarettes, alcohol use<\/strong> and violent crime, as France<\/a> 24 reported.<\/p>\n

While Thailand<\/a> seeks to make plastic<\/strong> use<\/strong> taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong>, environmental activists see much larger action needed to solve the plastic<\/strong> crisis.<\/p>\n

He had the courage, at a time<\/strong> when Algeria<\/a> is changing and opening up, to tackle a taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

At a time<\/strong> when everyone is demanding greater transparency, it is astonishing to note that all memory work<\/strong> comes up against the same pitfalls, again and again, and that people continue to prefer taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong> to serious exploration.<\/p>\n

Born long after the end of the war, the French Head of State has no taboos<\/span><\/strong> when it comes to Algeria<\/a> and does not submit to any doctrine.<\/p>\n

Pliny\u2019s infamous assertion resurfaced this week in a 107-page report<\/strong> on how to lift \u00bbmenstrual taboos<\/span><\/strong>\u00ab, co-authored by two members of France<\/a>\u2019s National Assembly.<\/p>\n

Informed by the work<\/strong> of feminist campaigners and advocacy groups<\/strong>, the report<\/strong> details 47 recommendations to ensure menstruation is better understood and is no longer \u00bba cause of anguish and suffering\u00ab for women<\/strong>.\u00bbPeriods have long been a taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong> subject<\/strong> because they were seen as dirty and impure,\u00ab said La\u00ebtitia Romeiro Dias, a lawmaker from the ruling<\/strong> LREM party who co-authored the report<\/strong> with her colleague B\u00e9n\u00e9dicte Taurine, of the opposition La France<\/a> insoumise, a left-wing party.\u00bbA refusal to talk openly about the subject<\/strong> has enabled all sorts of misconceptions to be passed on from one generation to another,\u00ab she added. \u00bbThis ignorance has to stop.<\/p>\n

In their report<\/strong>, Romeiro Dias and Taurine stressed that \u00bbdeconstructing the taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong>\u00ab of periods necessarily involves changing the way it is approached at school, both when and how.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The ministers\u2019 announcement was hailed as a victory by charities.\u00bbWe\u2019re talking about basic necessities here, which are still luxury items for many women<\/strong>,\u00ab said Nad\u00e8ge Passereau of ADSF, a women<\/strong>\u2019s health charity and advocacy group that distributes sanitary kits to women<\/strong> in need.\u00bbSuch products are currently only available in homeless shelters, where women<\/strong> are often reluctant to ask for them,\u00ab Passereau added. \u00bbOne mustn\u2019t forget all of this was taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong> for a long time<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In this respect, the government<\/strong>\u2019s promise to experiment with free distributions marks an important first step, says Heuz\u00e9-Sarmini, though more needs<\/strong> to be done.\u00bbIt was our first priority, now we want three more measures,\u00ab she explained. \u00bbWe want vouchers or pre-paid cards for women<\/strong> in need, so that they can make their own, intimate choices. \u00bb We want private health insurance firms to reimburse sanitary products, following the example set by the LMDE, the leading provider for students. \u00bb And we want dispensers in all public and private spaces, from schools to office buildings, to make sanitary products as readily available as condoms. \u00bb Only then, she added, when dispensers are available and visible to all, in broad daylight, will menstruation finally cease to be a taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong> subject<\/strong>. \u00bb<\/p>\n

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Olivier Nakache and \u00c9ric Toledano, the pair behind \u00bbHors Normes\u00ab, made their name with \u00bbIntouchables\u00ab, a blockbuster comedy. \u00bb In their latest film they turn to the efforts of two social workers in Paris to offer shelter and purpose to severely autistic youngsters whom the social-welfare system fails. \u00bb When the central autistic character, Joseph , pulls the alarm in the metro, it serves as a wider metaphor. \u00bb \u00bbThe important thing\u00ab, Mr Nakache has said, is \u00bbto break the taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong> on certain subjects\u00ab. \u00bb<\/p>\n

The very same communiqu\u00e9 also indicates that \u00bbboth presidents agreed to keep in touch to follow up on the political initiatives resulting from the Major National Dialogue,\u00ab without ever mentioning the issue<\/strong> of political prisoners or negotiations with secessionists, two taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong> subjects for Cameroon<\/a>\u2019s government<\/strong>. \u00bb<\/p>\n

Other EU leaders still have to give their backing to the fund at a summit next month and Le Maire predicted difficult talks until then with Austria, Denmark<\/a>, the Netherlands<\/a> and Sweden<\/a>, where the issue<\/strong> of joint debt is a taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong>. \u00bb<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As protests against racial prejudice continue across the world<\/strong>, we look<\/strong> at how discrimination and xenophobia materialise in specific ways in France<\/a>. \u00bb We begin with a look<\/strong> back at the history of this French taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong>. \u00bb Next, we take a look<\/strong> at police violence and how some current and former officers have started speaking out. \u00bb Lastly, we speak to activist and Professor Maboula Soumahoro, who looks at why language and republican ideals add an extra level of complexity to the issue<\/strong>. \u00bb<\/p>\n

PARIS – French President Emmanuel Macron appeared to be caught off guard on Monday by a proposal by a government<\/strong> spokeswoman, one of the most prominent black people in French politics, to lift a decades-old taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong> against collecting statistics by race. \u00bb<\/p>\n

So we looked into understanding consumers and we found out what is really holding women<\/strong> back, and it\u2019s all the taboos<\/span><\/strong> linked to periods, menstruation and the vagina. \u00bb<\/p>\n

Do you know where the origin of the word \u00abtaboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong>\u00bb comes from? It actually comes from the Polynesian word \u00abtapua\u00bb \u2013 and that means menstruation. \u00bb So it shows how deeply linked our category is with taboos<\/span><\/strong>. \u00bb And because it\u2019s deeply linked with taboos<\/span><\/strong> it\u2019s very much rooted in values. \u00bb And that makes it very interesting because our job goes beyond just selling products \u2013 we can really impact girls\u2019 and womens\u2019 lives by helping to remove those taboos<\/span><\/strong> that hold them back. \u00bb<\/p>\n

We had a very clear brief of what we wanted to get out of it. \u00bb And we had very clear boundaries. \u00bb And these boundaries were that we could not lose what our brand stands for today. \u00bb Our blue rhomboid was remembered by every second or third person even though it had been around for centuries. \u00bb And we\u2019ve been associated as a brand that is pink. \u00bb So we knew we shouldn\u2019t lose our blue rhomboids and we knew we couldn\u2019t lose pink. \u00bb And we knew that in some parts of the world<\/strong>, we already were associated with being a bit taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong>-breaking. \u00bb And those were the three elements that I said we must not ever touch, but everything else was open. \u00bb<\/p>\n

Sophie Hennekam is a professor in human resource management at Audencia<\/a> Business School in Nantes, France<\/a>. \u00bb She studies invisible, stigmatised, precarious and taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong> populations in the workplace, identity and identity transitions as well as work<\/strong> in creative industries. \u00bb Email: shennekam@audencia.com<\/p>\n

The French court of auditors has gambled that writing a report<\/strong> that breaks<\/strong> a taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong> and causes debate will be more likely to have real consequences. \u00bb The organisation analysed how aid which is decoupled from the common agricultural policy is distributed in France<\/a>. \u00bb<\/p>\n

This situation is well-known to the agricultural sector but is the subject<\/strong> of a taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong> both at the level of the French government<\/strong>, as well as in Brussels<\/a>. \u00bb The status quo manages the main agricultural organisations, where the farmers who come off the best through the CAP are well represented. \u00bb<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u00abThat wasn\u2019t an intentional decision in filling out the slate,\u00bb according to Encuentro representative Samantha Burciaga. \u00bb However, it is a noteworthy feature of this year\u2019s edition. \u00bb \u00abBurciaga also described another trend among the selected projects: \u00bbIt\u2019s amazing how the filmmakers convey the pain of their people, and the concerns of their communities. \u00bb The recurring themes of this selection show us nomadic families, the search for the truth in a journey and the breaking of the taboos<\/span><\/strong> and comfort zones. \u00bb \u00abTo qualify for participation, fiction and documentary projects in development from Ibero-American territories must have a minimum of 20% of their budget already in place. \u00bb<\/p>\n

L\u00e9vi-Strauss tested these ideas in his first major work<\/strong> The Elementary Structures of Kinship . \u00bb Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, anthropologists had obsessively catalogued kinship systems observed all over the world<\/strong>, revealing the enormous variety of terms used to name relatives<\/strong>, rules governing marriage, and laws establishing descent. \u00bb With the help of structural analysis L\u00e9vi-Strauss could start to make sense of this mass of data. \u00bb Just as linguistic signs stood in relations of opposition and distinction to each other, the rules of the kinship system determine the relations that adhere between individuals. \u00bb The most fundamental rule, L\u00e9vi-Strauss discovered, was the incest taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong>. \u00bb It classified the world<\/strong> into two groups<\/strong>: possible spouses and prohibited spouses. \u00bb The effect of this rule, he argued, was to force men<\/strong> to bring wives into the family and swap sisters out. \u00bb This elaborate exchange of women<\/strong> was the motive force of all social life, the reason men<\/strong> left home at all. \u00bb And all of us, men<\/strong> and women<\/strong>, whether we knew it or not, had the programs of our lives scripted to the rhythms of this logic. \u00bb Simone de Beauvoir<\/a> wrote a favorable review of the work<\/strong>, which she said revealed how thoroughly the objectification of women<\/strong> was embedded in our thought and culture. \u00bb<\/p>\n

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PLIEUX, France<\/a> \u2014 Europe<\/a>\u2019s taboos<\/span><\/strong> are falling away. \u00bb<\/p>\n

Europe<\/a>‘s taboos<\/span><\/strong> are falling away. \u00bb<\/p>\n

Breaking the taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Jeune Afrique: In 2018, you published a study proposing several avenues for reforming the CFA franc zone. \u00bb It\u2019s the first time<\/strong> that a top-level French personality who has played a leading political role in the past has broken the taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong> surrounding the CFA franc. \u00bb What made you decide to take the plunge?<\/p>\n

The text of this article was generated by the Breaking The Silence<\/a> system that collected 22<\/strong> news articles posted on the web from January 2019 to September 2020 and clustered for the taboo subjects related to France<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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