I made this video for the Americans who do not yet get me. Actually nobody wants to admit that out of a spirit of righteousness and belief in a correct moral order, there was mob retaliation in the industralized West against their white immigrants from the ex-colonies. The Pieds-Noirs are a case in point. Given that this was (and is) actually so, not a feature of my imagination, losing my belief in West culture and its moral precepts has been of benefit to me, personally.
Cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pied-Noir
"Those who moved to France suffered ostracism from the Left for their perceived exploitation of native Muslims and some blamed them for the war, thus the political turmoil surrounding the collapse of the French Fourth Republic. In popular culture, the community is often represented as feeling removed from French culture while longing for Algeria. Thus, the recent history of the pieds-noirs has been imprinted with a theme of double alienation from both their native homeland and their adopted land."
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