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Angry French students protest while British students stay quiet
Original: Angry French students take to the streets. British students don’t – and I think I know why
French students are once again taking to the streets in protest, while their British counterparts remain largely absent from public demonstrations. Writing in the Guardian, journalism master's student Kitty Sayers argues the difference is cultural: French children are raised on the revolutionary roots of their nation and taught the state is accountable to its citizens, a tradition that normalises street protest. British students, she suggests, lack that inherited sense of collective political responsibility, and so respond to grievances with resignation rather than mobilisation.
Why now: Renewed student protests in France have prompted debate about why British students do not mobilise in the same way.
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- Angry French students take to the streets. British students don’t – and I think I know why · The Guardian
I grew up in France, where all children are taught about the revolutionary roots of their nation and the responsibility of the state towards its citizens, says Kitty Sayers, a master’s student in journalism
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