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Creolization: "France Insoumise clarifies its communitarian turn"

2020-09-29T14:29:51.433Z


FIGAROVOX / TRIBUNE - The president of La France Insoumise slips from the French assimilator model - demanding in terms of sacrifices for the newcomer - to the Anglo-Saxon model, analyzes Laurent Herblay. According to him, it is regrettable that Jean-Luc Mélenchon passes from a defense of the republican melting pot to a praise of the English melting pot.


Laurent Herblay is author of the

free Gaullist blog

since 2007, former spokesperson for Debout la République and Nicolas Dupont-Aignan for the 2012 presidential election.

The word "creolization", used by Jean-Luc Mélenchon has aroused controversy, to which he replied in a forum in the Obs.

The opportunity to clarify, if there was still a need, the communitarian turn of La France Insoumise, aggravated by a new Anglo-Saxon import, the refusal of any alternative.

For him, “creolization is neither a project nor a program.

It is a fact that is evident ”.

The French model and the discarded French

At least, the quote from Edouard Glissant has the merit of clarity, evoking a "continuous transformation", "culture shocks" or "the creation of an open and inextricable culture".

We are indeed in this very Anglo-Saxon logic where several cultures co-exist and where the national culture would be both in retreat and in permanent evolution, under the influence of all the influences which cross it.

This is confirmed by this other quote from Edouard Glissant: "creolization is a perpetual movement of cultural and linguistic interpenetrability which means that we do not end up with a definition of being".

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This vision is that of a globalized world without borders where everything mixes, everything has the same value, where the roots would end up being completely forgotten, the being cannot be defined.

It is indeed the

Anglo-Saxon

melting pot

, as opposed to the French republican melting pot.

Tellingly, Mélenchon sees nothing wrong with the linguistic invasion of

Globish

, arguing that “Anglo-Saxon cultural references which were very much in the minority have become in the majority and a strong impregnation has resulted.

It can be read on shop fronts, ordinary vocabulary, TV shows, fashions and music.

Tellingly, Mélenchon sees nothing wrong with the linguistic invasion of Globish

In fact, it is the most successful form of creolization and it overlooks all the others ”.

It is all the same quite incredible that a man who has a certain culture like himself is not shocked by this linguistic flattening, which goes from commerce to all culture.

This single linguistic perspective invalidates the quote from Glissant since this development leads to a standardization and impoverishment of our cultures.

Mélenchon is right to point out the tension that exists between universalism and differences.

But precisely, this is where there are different projects.

And those of France are not those of the Anglo-Saxon world.

In our country, universalism takes precedence over differences.

As Malika Sorel noted in “The puzzle of integration”, her first book, even if it is not a question of forgetting its roots, in our model a greater effort of assimilation is required of immigrants.

But in return, the integration is much better.

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If the Anglo-Saxon model requires less effort, while preserving more distinct communities, on the other hand, integration is much less good.

This is shown by the appalling condition of blacks across the Atlantic, who still suffer from segregation, this segregation which was still legal there when Gaston Monnerville was the President of the Senate in France ...

The French republican model requires individuals to put the universal common before differences.

This is why we have the law of 1905 and why religions are consigned to the private sphere.

Without fear of being contradictory, Mélenchon criticizes the desire for assimilation which imposes "a renunciation of what distinguishes them from the dominant culture" by evoking the "body, what we show or not, what we do. on display depending on whether you are a man or a woman ”, evoking the veil in a nutshell.

If creolization exists, fanned by some, it is only a project that can perfectly be fought democratically

But in doing so, he uses the great diversion of words well deciphered by Fatiha Agag-Boudjahlat.

He manages to imply that the ban on the burqa, the burkini or the veil would be the behavior of the dominant, even though these scraps of fabric are means of patriarchal Islamist domination over women!

On the contrary, it is their prohibition which frees dominated women from their dominants.

And to crown it all, Mélenchon makes a transfer of the economic speech of Thatcher, according to which “there would be no alternative”, for his communitarian vision.

For him, creolization would not be a project or a program, but a fact.

If he is right to say that "the current French people are no longer the people of 1958", this observation does not close the debate, on the contrary.

Not only can this development push, a contrario, to reaffirm more strongly how we hold our republican universalist model opposed to communitarianism.

But in addition, it is extremely clear that it is the project of some, like him, to question it and push for an Anglo-Saxon evolution.

In doing so, it expresses a form of denial of democratic debate.

He is free to defend a communitarian project of creolization of our society, but also free to others to defend another way.

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Beyond the complete opposition to this disastrous project of society, it is striking to note the personal drift of Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

If creolization exists, fanned by some, it is only a project that can perfectly be fought democratically.

The simple fact of refusing it confirms the worrying totalitarian tone of the character, which outrageous insults like Isabelle Saporta do not help ...

Source: lefigaro

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