In today’s world we have an ever growing number of families and individuals immigrating too many parts of the world. Diaspora has become a familiar term to many and an issue any individual living in a “different” culture experiences. What France is doing to me is an example of cultural hegemony a concept proposed by Gramsci, trying to unite all of France into the “ideal” France according to the ruling government. This is a good example of how something can become "common sense" as the dominant group tries to enforce a law which later on becomes common sense like wearing a seatbelt today. It is already difficult for minority youths to try and come to terms with his or her “identity”. In being a French-Muslim you are not really French, but also not really Muslim and as the Gillespie article suggests many youths go through a complex transition in dealing with “dual” identities. To me France is trying to force its citizens to be strictly French (adhere to the ban) or Muslim, it is not giving its citizens the option to be both. The riots which have occurred in France but also other European countries are a way to resist this cultural homogenization. It is a way of telling the government that their identities are French-Muslims and they have the right and freedom to be proud of both of their cultures and the ability to cross between both whenever they deem it necessarily.
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