BBC News | In pictures: Youths from the French suburbs speak, Nadir Dendoune, 34

Nadir Dendoune, 34

Journalist, Saint-Denis

What we need is recognition that we are just as French as anyone else in the country.

We are constantly being asked which country we or our parents come from.

The media always talk about "youths of immigrant origin". They would never say that about children of Italian or Polish migrants.


�In pictures:�Youths from the French suburbs speak

	Nadir Dendoune, 34 Journalist, Saint-Denis What we need is recognition that we are just as French as anyone else in the country. We are constantly being asked which country we or our parents come from. The media always talk about "youths of immigrant origin". They would never say that about children of Italian or Polish migrants.