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Old Posted Feb 5, 2013, 10:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Nantais View Post
OK, thanks for these informations.
I knew about White flight to the suburbs but I had never heard about Blockbusting. It seems weird that such practices could survive in America up to the 1980's.
It's not the topic of the thread, but I'd like to say we've seen pretty much the same phenomenon as that White flight in our country up to the 80s. Most the white population formerly of the working class, massively improving their social conditions and accessing the middle class left the cités HLM where immigrants from Africa replaced them. That's how we ended up having some sort of ghettos here too. However, I agree that it appears to have been more brutal in North America than in Europe, but it'd be wrong to depict the American society as particularly racist. Of course anybody knows that racism has been quite everywhere to some more or less severe extent.
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