No, France is not ‘burning’
- For the past few weeks, images of burning buildings and devastated shopping streets have dominated international media coverage of France.
- “France is burning”, “France in turmoil”, “Chaos in France”, the headlines have declared, focusing on the violent element of an otherwise peaceful student movement demanding better conditions for education.
- To understand why this has happened in the past and is happening today, let us start by examining the word “violence”.
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- For the past few weeks, images of burning buildings and devastated shopping streets have dominated international media coverage of France.
- “France is burning”, “France in turmoil”, “Chaos in France”, the headlines have declared, focusing on the violent element of an otherwise peaceful student movement demanding better conditions for education.
- To understand why this has happened in the past and is happening today, let us start by examining the word “violence”.
Sources: Al Jazeera