For the last 13 days French cities and now other European cities are suffering from riots.
The rioters are mostly from first, second or even third generation emigrants. A large portion of those first generation emigrants and parents of the naturalized second/third generations were illegal emigrants from North African and other Middle Eastern countries. They came for jobs and other economic opportunities, but they where not allowed to assimilate into the French culture. The French people didn't want them living in their communities, the French Government allowed schools to teach in the emigrant's native languages, and even encouraged the emigrants to retain their old cultures.
Now years later, the French overall unemployment rates are hovering around 10%, while some emigrant communities are seeing up to 47% unemployment.
But don't these problems that I have outlined above almost mirror those that the US may face one day? Within the US many States want to teach emigrant students in their native language, encourage them to retain their old cultures and open their subsidized housing projects to them. The only difference is that our unemployment rate is less then half that of France. But how long will that last? Sooner or later the rate will rise and we will have to face the near break down of society that France is facing now.
The US needs to learn from France's mistakes, before we have to learn from our own mistakes.