One of the problems that we face through the media attention that these artists receive is that there has been an awful lot of talk about opera and classical music being elite and being for an elitist group.
I don't think France is a racist country, I really don't, but we do still have many problems with our immigrant past, and there's a shame that goes with that, that works both ways, in the host and in the post-immigrant generation.
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Chris Hadfield, Astronaut (1959) |
Michael Jackson, Musician (1958) |
Charles Kettering, Inventor (1876) |
Robin Leach, Writer (1941) |
Vicki Baum, Novelist (1960) |
Michael Ende, Writer (1995) |
Manly Hall, Philosopher (1990) |
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