sheer speculation, i know... however, the phrase 'melting pot' is not in common use over here either.

minor point 1-the phrenia of  racism in the States is not limited to the souther border at all, and is stirred by the same type of fearful and fearsome people who are ranting  up this law, as well as most all of the wars of history.

"melting pot" isn't used here in France, but it is expected that the soup is made - all shall speak parisian french, all will be bliss if we can only get those people over there to be like these us people.

Notwithstanding the obvious counter-arguments that there are others who are forced to wear collars and habits and the like in order to show subjugation to Rome (or whatever piety demands to create a difference for the public)...these priests of our secular virtue are not fighting to lift the burden of shadow from women. Nor, presuming they were, is there any instance in history that can be pointed to which indicates that banning laws be the way to handle such subjugation.

As the Shakti Gawain quotes goes: In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it.

The sentence before is: You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, stamp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of emotional or physical resistance.

The sentence before that is: Evil is like a shadow - it has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light.

Sarkozy and his ilk are as much the epitome of an absence of light as those fellow Sujectionists that he thinks he is fighting.

Never underestimate their intelligence, always underestimate their knowledge.

Frank Delaney ~ Ireland