PARIS—The area ripple of outrage over the killing of George Floyd is testing a bastion of Western liberalism: the French republic.
France has lengthy refused to search out run as something bigger than a social originate. Within the eyes of the republic, what makes a particular person French is a willingness to embody a colorblind identification primarily primarily based on the country’s ideals of “liberty, equality and fraternity.” It is a mentality that is affecting almost every side of French existence, from hiring practices to the strict secularism that underpins France’s…
