Tunisia and France

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Representatives of the UN, the imperialistic power of France has had an undeniably negative effect on its unsuspecting victim, Tunisia. France should be found guilty of harming Tunisia because France’s initial reasons for taking over Tunisia were selfish and during their rule France imposed their culture on the Tunisians, breaking their fragile culture, while also ignoring the Tunisian government, not improving it, later causing many revolts and much unrest.

First and foremost, France’s original intentions for taking over Tunisia were completely corrupt. A key reason as to why France took over Tunisia was because of its power in neighboring country Algeria. The French had some trouble with the Algiers because of their insufferable resistance against the Turks. Keeping in mind the general location of Tunisia, France gained power in the area to take better control of the Algiers (History of Tunisia 1). An overwhelming flaw in their plan of action was that this would put Tunisia under much more fire than it had undergone previously. The presence of over 36,000 troops could cause even more trouble for the citizens of Tunisia, putting them in harm’s way (History of Tunisia 2). As is imaginable, the lives of civilians are far more important than trying to gain control over another nearby country, a fact which France seems to ignore. These facts shift France’s power towards the negative light.

In addition, France seemed to shove their culture on the Tunisians. The most obvious example of this is when students started to learn French as their primary language instead of Arabic. With an overwhelming French curriculum, it’s no wonder that a nationalistic movement grew out of these schools especially from the...

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