parochial boy
parochial_boy
Junior Chimp
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« on: June 23, 2021, 10:36:28 AM » |
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The difference is that nowhere in Africa really has anything more than a tiny minority of people who actually have French as a first language. In Kinshasa, most people on the street will be speakig Lingala; in Dakar it will be Wolof and so on. The only real potential differences are the Seychelles, Mauritius, Haïti; and in these cases the actual day-to-day language is Creole, which probably should be counted as a different language.
As for the original question - as much as I hate these comparisons, French Switzerland is pretty much more progressive in every way imaginable than France is these days.
As an example - in the 2019 federal election, the left combined got 43% in Romandie and about 27% in France in 2017, while the UDC got around 17% in Romandie and the FN + DLF got 26% in France. This is even before bearing in mind that the left in Switzerland is more left wing than the French left, and that the UDC are less extreme than the FN.
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