A separate account of the way the gulf between France’s metropolitan elites and its working classes are tearing the country apart

Christophe Guilluy, a French geographer, makes the case that France is becoming an ‘American society’-one that is both increasingly multicultural and increasingly unequal. The divide between the global economy’s winners and losers in today’s France has replaced the older left-right split, leaving many on ‘the periphery.’

As Guilluy shows, there is no unified People from france economy, and those cut off in the country’s new economic citadels suffer disproportionately on both economic and public fronts. In Guilluy’s analysis, the lip services paid to the idea of an ‘open society’ in France is normally a smoke display screen meant to hide the emergence of a closed culture, walled off for the benefit of top of the classes. The ruling classes in France are achieving a harmful stage, he argues; with no stability of an evergrowing economy, the expect those excluded from growth is certainly extinguished, undermining the legitimacy of the multicultural nation.