"Inequalities in access to vacations have remained stagnant in France for around forty years. Four out of ten French people still cannot afford to go on a trip. In a context where poverty in France has reached 'a level unmatched in nearly 30 years,' according to INSEE [ L'Institut national de la statistique et des Ć©tudes Ć©conomiques], this trend is unlikely to reverse."
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51