Droit de Sol - Droit de Sang

In summer 2014, during the Football World Cup (I don't give a shit about football, by the way), one evening I heard tons of noise on the street, like a celebration, mainly cars with their claxons. It was odd, France was not playing that day, so no victory to celebrate in principle. I looked through the window and saw cars with people shouting with half of their bodies out of the cars waving Algerian flags. Yep, Algeria had won that day and they were cellebrating it. I found it funny but interesting, I thought those French people of Algerian descent would have a mixed identity, it seemed normal to me. The next day I read something not so funny in the newspaper regarding this "Maghrebian partying". In the Quartiers Sensibles this cellebrations involved burning cars (not sure if these fires were accompanied by stoning the police, the firefigthers, some buses... as it happens lately in Halloween, New Year's Eve... in these neighbourhoods). Retarded, medieval beasts have odd ways to express their happiness... but anyway I think I didn't pay much attention to it, at that point I thought multicultural France was working as I dreamed it to work, and not as the growing mess of the last decade(s)...

Over the next years I've become more and more aware of how one kind of immigration has enriched this country in so many aspects, but another part of the immigration (particularly their children), is destroying this society. I guess you don't need more explanations, but yes, sure I'm talking about one (sizeable) part of the Muslims and people of Maghrebian descent... It's not only the Islamist scum or the dealers and criminals, it's that as the basis of it, these people that have been born and raised in France and enjoyed all the opportunities (well, only a few, others like education they decided to reject them) that this country has to offer, don't consider themselves French, and not because they are Anarchists, but because they consider themselves Moroccans, Algerians, Tunisians...

If you don't know what Jus Soli and Jus Sanguinis mean, you should read the articles, but let's say that the nationality laws of advanced countries (like France or indeed Spain) apply a mix of both. Basically any progressist person should advocate for applying some sort of "intelligent" Jus Soli to "foreigners". I mean:

• If you are born in one country of foreign parents, but this is not accidental (a temporal trip), but your parents have been living in the country and plan to continue to live in the country with you, and they (and you) are integrated in the country, you should be granted the nationality almost automatically.
• If you migrate to one country, live and work there for a few years, and you demonstrate that you have integrated in the local culture, you should get the nationality without any problem, and get the same rights (and duties) as anyone which grand-grand-grand... parents had been born in the country

For ethnic nationalists, far-right idiots and so on, things are very different... they consider that your right to nationality depends only on your ancestors... fucking assholes. It's a form of predestination. Basically your ancestors determine where you can live, where you can feel to belong to, it's a denial of human individual freedom and evolution.

When someone that has been born and lived in this country all his life considers that his contry is the one where his parents (or maybe not even them, just his grandparents) were born, a country where maybe he goes once per year... it seems crazy to me. It also seems like a disgusting display of ingratitude. Your parents or grandparents moved away from their poor countries to pursue a better life here, and this society accepted them and gave them and their descendants full rights, but you despite this society by adhering to that other "faraway" country...

This kind of ingratitude feels like a bit offensive, and indeed it makes me wonder why these people don't move to that other country that is so fascinating and they love so much... well, do you really need an answer? But well, to a certain extent one could bear with it. What is way beyond unacceptable is when this attitude leads to mobs to riot on the street and loot shops, as idiots of Moroccan descent did in Brussels and Paris last November...

In any case, this situation where someone fully identifies with the country of his ancestors rather than with the country where he has lived so far, seems to me like a pure form of Jus Sanguinis and of ethnical/genetic nationalism. So in the end all these people look to me like far-right militants. How odd that the antifascist left only fights the European far-right and not the maghrebian far-right...