Of course, nothing like that employment rate could happen here.
On Jan 10, 2015, at 11:18 AM, Ken Steele <[email protected]
> wrote:

> 
> I noticed that a "social exclusion" type of analysis was applied by French 
> commentators to the explanation of why many young Muslim males were very 
> susceptible to recruitment by radical groups.
> 
> The unemployment rate of males in their 20s was said to be 30%-40% and 
> prospects of gainful employment were slim.
> 
> Ken
> 
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> Kenneth M. Steele, Ph.D.                  [email protected]
> Professor
> Department of Psychology          http://www.psych.appstate.edu
> Appalachian State University
> Boone, NC 28608
> USA
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> 
> 
> On 1/10/2015 10:55 AM, Christopher Green wrote:
>> 
>> Although the term isn’t used in English very much, the French
>> (and other Europeans) talk not so much about mere “unemployment”
>> but about “social exclusion”: people who have, essentially,
>> fallen out (or been driven out) of the culture by poverty. By
>> bringing them back into the culture at a minimal level, you give
>> them an opportunity (a real opportunity, not a merely theoretical
>> one) to begin to effectively navigate the culture again — get
>> training, an education, get a job, better clothes, a better home,
>> etc. Are there some people who will “take advantage” and “mooch”
>> off the kindness of others? Sure, a few, but most people are not
>> satisfied to live at a mere subsistence level when real
>> opportunities are available for them to improve their situation.
>> And the result is living in society with far less abject poverty
>> and need (and all the socially undesirable behavior that comes
>> with that).
>> 
>> "Crazy socialist propaganda" off.
>> Chris
>> …..

Paul Brandon
Emeritus Professor of Psychology
Minnesota State University, Mankato
[email protected]




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