Or there's an mandated effort to do so), there are also many negatives: old wounds don't heal true equality is almost never achievable, so the unfulfilled promises are harmful for underserved communities the banlieu is real social class is always coded just beneath the surface some people wish to practice their religion openly. While there are undoubtedly positives to that (education is very strong in most communities, health care is good, arts and arts education are aggressively expanded and financed in all communities. The secular Republic has attempted to achieve something like equality by mandating a certain ignorance or blindness toward class, religious identity, gender, and other concerns.

These groups are very integral to current French identity concerns, primarily surrounding the concerns of laïcité in the midst of these cultural conflicts.įrance has a strong tradition of top-down social structures. One of my, personal reads of the food in the film is a statement of French cultural hegemony, or, more importantly, the director's statements about French socio-cultural acceptance / absorption of the various social classes and colonial groups and the 'ideal' cultural France. It also is prevalent in other more subtle marks of social status and class in France- there's cultural participation.

It is aligned with costume, living situations, education levels and processes, etc.

It's not the only use of food, but it is pretty clearly connected to class markers. The food is absolutely one of the marks of social class at work in the film I'm so glad you mention this.

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