Interesting Point

From my INTP (Nerd Group) Mailing Group:

***Back in the 1990s, the French sneered at America for the
Los Angeles riots. As the Chicago Sun-Times reported in
1992: "the consensus of French pundits is that something on
the scale of the Los Angeles riots could not happen here,
mainly because France is a more humane, less racist place
with a much stronger commitment to social welfare
programs." President Mitterrand, the Washington Post
reported in 1992, blamed the riots on the "conservative
society" that Presidents Reagan and Bush had created and
said France is different because it "is the country where
the level of social protection is the highest in the
world."***

http://www.nysun.com/article/22526