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November 19, 2005
Minister Azouz Begag asks for data on race
The French Minister of Equal Opportunities, Azouz Begag, is asking legislators to overturn a ban on collecting data about race and religion, according to a BBC News article. Dad was asking about race and how people see it here.
Opinions are all over the spectrum, I guess, as they are in the US. But there's an interesting bit in the article I didn't know:
At present not a single member of parliament from mainland France is of African or Arab origin - although an estimated 10% of people are.
That's one of those telling little coincidences, like the fact that far fewer than 50% of elected representatives are women. How you change that is another question entirely.
Posted by Mark at November 19, 2005 05:54 PM
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