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French Community

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French Community
n
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) an international association consisting of France and a number of former French colonies: founded in 1958 as a successor to the French Union


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The fact that a French community of up to 18,000 existed and even thrived on a policy of accommodation and cooperation with Native Americans and other Europeans suggests that the later North American experience of oppression, ethnic cleansing, and even genocide was not the inevitable conclusion of colonization.
That the resistance rate was higher in the Wayampis Amerindians than in the French workers was unexpected, considering the higher levels of antibacterial drug use in the French community.
 
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