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CMV: Without Africans, france wouldn't have achieved its second world cup.

There have been rising tendencies in the past decade to reduce the influx of immigrants in Europe among regular populace, citing claims that immigrants are taking over employment and living off government welfare programs. There have been also fears of foreign cultures overshadowing Europe. Eastern Europeans especially the French, English and the Belgians seem quite fed up and prejudiced against immigrants especially of middle eastern & African origins, until these immigrants deliver their respective nations a glory of any sorts.

It has always been that way. Immigrants and their offspring are welcome as long as they do our work for us, achieve notable feats in various fields. Or else they are frowned upon and portrayed as leeches living off government welfare and taxpayers money.

The world cup final today made me realize this. Just look at the great number of black French players. The French team has more than 13 players of foreign origins, most of which are not white. I doubt the French nationals have any problems with immigrants being in the spotlight of glory at this time.
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The problem comes with tieing a player to a place his ancestors come from. Every single player in the french national team is either born in France, or (for 2-3 players, iirc) were born in Africa, but moved to France in their very early childhood, talking age 5 and under here.  
For all purposes, these people are french, they never lived in Africa, they have never been Africans in a sense that any African culture shaped them. They were all raised in France, surrounded by french culture, by french people, by the french way of life.   
The only thing that they have and people don't want to associate with "Europe" is a skin colour, that is all there is.  

Are these people Africans? Why? Because their parents or grand-parents came from Africa? What does that have to do with them? Did they not spend their entire life (And in single cases, basically all of their life) so far in France? How far do you want to go back with this? Is two Generations enough? Three? Four? If you play that game long enough, than yes, the french victory wouldn't have been possible, because in the end, EVERYBODY traces their way back to Africa, were humans came from.