Research on the incident in Paris in 2005 in which three White French youth climbed an electric fence around an African immigrant compound, leading to 20 days of clashes between authorities and immigrant youth, showed that news reports most often blamed
which two causes for the unrest?
a. “poor housing” and “own culture”
b. “lack of assimilation” and “police overreaction”
c. “riff-raff” and “police overreaction”
d. “lack of education” and “lack of assimilation”
Answer: B
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