Post-independence Arabization made French integrationist dreams seem never realistically possible

Evidence

It is a surly city, harrowed by the stresses of over-population and under-employment; with the architecture of Cannes, but the atmosphere of Aberdeen. During the day the cafés are thronged with all-male, typically Arab society. At night the city, responsive to President Boumedienne’s own personal brand of puritanism, closes down like wartime Toronto on a Sunday. The once exclusively pied noir areas of Algeria have become so totally Arab in atmosphere that one wonders how the French dreams of “integration” or “association”, or the liberal hopes of a Camus for a multi-racial society of the 1950s, could ever have come true. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1691

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth investigating how much the full Arabization of Algiers was a planned policy versus an organic result of pied noir exit.
• XREF: connects to: Soustelle’s integration policy rejected assimilation while promising perpetual French provincehood; Integrationists cast French as the ordering Logos over colonized anarchy; Franco-Algerian coexistence was destroyed by accumulated missed chances — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1611 (+3 more)

Related

• Soustelle’s integration policy recognized Algeria’s distinct personality while keeping it French (similarity 0.83)
• Franco-Algerian coexistence was destroyed by accumulated missed chances (similarity 0.82)
• Soustelle’s integration policy differed from Blum-Viollette assimilation by granting Algeria its own personality. (similarity 0.81)
• Integration would have demographically swamped metropolitan France (similarity 0.81)
• Algerian integration would numerically swamp metropolitan France politically. (similarity 0.81)
• Integration was feasible in 1936 but a delusion by 1958 (similarity 0.81)
• Algerian integration was only ever workable before 1958 (similarity 0.81)
• Algeria’s post-independence ‘peace’ proved as savage as its war (similarity 0.81)
• Francisation destroyed Algeria’s native political cadres, leaving no negotiating partners. (similarity 0.81)
• French assimilation destroyed Algerian leadership cadres that could have been negotiating partners (similarity 0.80)
• Both Muslims and pieds noirs read integration through self-serving demographic math. (similarity 0.80)
• Cooperation between settlers and Muslims could have preserved a European future in Algeria (similarity 0.80)
• Interdependence forced reconciliation between France and Algeria despite violence. (similarity 0.80)
• Pied noir survival in Algeria was untenable even without O.A.S. violence (similarity 0.80)
• Granting Tunisian and Moroccan independence without Algeria was a strategic error. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Franco-Algerian coexistence was destroyed by accumulated missed chances #corroborates (0.40) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1611
• Arab nationalism failed concretely on unity, Palestine, and economics #corroborates (0.30) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 329