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The culture of France has been shaped by geography, by historical events, and by foreign and internal forces and groups. France, and in particular Paris, has played an important role as a center of high culture since the 17th century and from the 19th century on, worldwide.
French culture by ethnicity (4 C, 1 P) Ethnic enclaves in France (2 P) A. African diaspora in France (8 C, 25 P) ... Pages in category "Ethnic groups in France"
Huguenots appeared in all of the English colonies and likewise assimilated. Even though this mass settlement approached the size of the settlement of the French settlement of Quebec, it has assimilated into the English-speaking mainstream to a much greater extent than other French colonial groups and has left few traces of cultural influence.
Following industrialization and the French Revolution altered the social structure of France and the bourgeoisie became the new ruling class. The feudal nobility was on the decline with agricultural and land yields decreasing, and arranged marriages between noble and bourgeois family became increasingly common, fusing the two social classes together during the 19th century.
French culture abroad (10 C, 1 P) A. Adaptations of works by French writers (50 C, 3 P) Archives in France (4 C, 17 P) Arts in France (20 C, 8 P) French awards (13 C ...
Bobo is a portmanteau word used to describe the socio-economic bourgeois-bohemian group in France, the French analogue to the English notion of the "champagne socialist".The geographer Christophe Guilluy has used the term to describe France's elite class, whom he accuses of being responsible for many of France's current problems.
The differences between continental Frenchmen and French-Canadians were so great that serious disputes occurred between the two groups. [8] The French also established slavery in 1721. Slaves infused elements of African and West Indian French Creole culture into Mobile, as many of the slaves who came to Mobile worked in the French West Indies.
The Vietnamese form the most established Asian ethnic group in France, with a presence in the country dating back to the start of French colonialism in Vietnam in the latter half of the 19th century. As of 2017, the population of the community was estimated to be about 400,000, the second largest overseas Vietnamese population outside Asia.