Since official French statistics do not record ethnic origin, figures are imprecise.

ECONOMIST: France's riots

This Report recommended that multiculturalism replace the bicultural policy based on the British and French Charter groups around whom policies for ethnic diversity in Canadian society had been organised for over a century.

UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences

"We reaffirmed our support for the establishment of a broad-based, representative and multi-ethnic government in accordance with the wishes of the Afghan people, " French news agency AFP quoted him as saying.

BBC: Pakistan and Iran agree Afghan effort

The intelligence services noted that many families of immigrant origin were rejecting French values and even the French language, following instead more traditional ways of life associated with their ethnic origin - including an increasing religious radicalisation among young Muslims, and a backlash against young Muslim women who wore Western clothing.

BBC: NEWS | Europe | France 'forming ethnic ghettoes'

If you sat down and tried to list all of the ethnic groups they repressed, you would cover virtually every group in Europe except the English, the French, the Dutch, the Italians, and the Spanish.

FORBES: Russian Oppression And Chechnya: Violence Is A Choice

But the passage of the French bill has rekindled nationalist anger, and with it fears of reprisal among Turkey's tiny ethnic Armenian community.

ECONOMIST: Turkey, France and Armenia