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The Algerian presence in France, including Berbers and Arabs, is the consequence of a unique history that dates back more than a century. Since the second part of the nineteenth century, Algerians have been moving from the colonies to the capital. Algerians have progressed from being indigenous people to French subjects to "French Muslims of Algeria" without being acknowledged as French or foreign. Algerian migration to Paris did not coincide with the colonial occupation of Algerian land in 1830. Algeria was a colony at the time, attracting hundreds of thousands of Europeans from France, Spain, Italy, and Malta.  The French presence in Algeria harmed Algeria's indigenous inhabitants, impoverished rural areas, and depleted resources on Algerian soil. These events, along with enormous population increases, prompted a major migration from colonial Algeria to the French capital at the end of the nineteenth century. Young men, primarily Kabyles (Berber ethnic group members), ...

In this post, I choose to address a topic that is rarely mentioned. which is racism toward Venezuelans in Colombia. We frequently discuss incidents or societal concerns that have occurred in industrialized countries. However, I believe it is more important to discuss countries other than China, the United States, and so on. Every day, racist and xenophobic banners against Venezuelans arise in many areas of Bogotá, and in society as a whole, racist sentiments spread against the residents of their neighboring nation, to whom they previously immigrated by the millions. No one has decried the large presence in various sections of the city of posters asking for racial violence against Venezuelans, as most Colombian politicians and legislators have for years who have not walked the streets of Bogotá, either in the centre or in the outlying districts. The atmosphere is preceded by a rarefied environment prone to such acts, as occurred in Germany in the 1930s, when anti-Semitic hysteria soon p...

In my articles, I discuss topics other than wars and geopolitics. On this particular occasion, though, I only wanted to write about a country that is being invaded by Russia, which was once an ally but is now its fiercest adversary. I will not explain the causes of the conflict in this post, but rather reflect on what is happening to a European country fighting for its freedom against a military superpower with significantly more resources and equipment than Ukraine. According to numerous sources, more than 2 million Ukrainians have fled the nation because of the many clashes that have occurred on their soil. Many families have been torn apart as a result of a conflict that no one expected or wanted. We are fortunate in that most of us have never been through such a traumatic event. Could you image being forced to flee your home, your parents, and your homeland due to a lack of humanity? There are numerous contradictory economic and global power assumptions in this conflict. The fact t...

I discussed the tension between Germans and Turks residing in Germany in the last post, which was caused by racism and language barriers. In the first portion of this post, I will discuss the origins of Germanic languages, German characteristics, nations where this language is spoken, and my own thoughts on this important European language. ORIGIN OF THE  GERMANIC LANGUAGES  The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family that is spoken natively by around 515 million people, mostly in Europe, North America, Oceania, and Southern Africa. With roughly 360–400 million native speakers, English is the most widely spoken Germanic language, followed by German (100 million speakers), Dutch (24 million), and Afrikaans (7.1 million). Yiddish, which was spoken by about 13 million Jews in Europe before to World War II, presently has approximately 1.5 million proficient speakers. Since the Middle Ages, these languages have been heavily impacted by Low German, whose...

Languages and language discrimination were the subjects of my earlier articles. Today's post will address racism, which goes beyond different types of biases based on language disparities. This type of behavior blames or severely criticizes not just one's culture, but also one's skin color and appearance. WHAT IS ANTI-TURKISH SENTIMENT? Anger, intolerance, or prejudice aimed towards Turks, their culture, and their language is known as anti-Turkish sentiment (Turkish: Türk düşmanl) or Turkophobia (Turkish: Türkofobi). The term refers to anti-Turkish sentiment directed not just towards Turks everywhere, but also at Ottoman subjects and descendants of ethnic Turks, such as Syrian and Iraqi Turkmen. It is also credited to smaller ethnic groups in the Balkans, such as Albanians, Bosniaks, and others, who grew up under the influence of Turkish culture and customs while adopting to Islam, particularly under the Ottoman Empire. EXAMPLES OF RACISM TOWARS TURKS IN GERMANY? Several ac...

 In the last post, I described the United States' aggressions and acts of discrimination against Spanish-speaking communities. In this post, I tried to explore everything about the Spanish language, from its roots to which countries recognize it as an official language. WHAT IS IT A LANGUAGE? To begin with, there are several definitions of what a language is. However, in this section, I shall define a language as a means of communication. A language, according to Merriam Webster, is the words, their pronunciation, and the means of combining them that a society uses and understands. Having said that, it is a shared system which allows a community to communicate with one another. ORIGINS OFTHE  SPANISH LANGUAGE  After defining a language and noting that it is a resource or system that members of a community or population share, let us look at the roots of a language that is highly prevalent over the world: Castilian, mostly known as "the Spanish language". The earliest vers...