"A kind of anti-society has grown up in them - a population that derives the meaning of its life from the hatred it bears for the other, 'official,' society in France. This alienation, this gulf of mistrust - greater than any I have encountered anywhere else in the world - is written on the faces of the young men, most of them permanently unemployed, who hang out in the pocked and potholed open spaces between their logements. When you approach to speak to them, their immobile faces betray not a flicker of recognition of your shared humanity; they make no gesture to smooth social intercourse. If you are not one of them, you are against them."
I do not claim to understand how to properly pronounce the French.
16 июл 2023