Why are the French in the streets? | Easy French 71

Hello everyone, and welcome to Easy French. Today, we are in Nice, and we are going to ask people some questions about France in 2018, and about the Yellow Vests, the current French social movement. Let's go! So today, what do you think about the Yellow Vests' demonstration? I think it's perfectly normal for people to... to rebuff themselves a bit, to revolt, and that... and that at some point they try to get results in relation to what they want to get. Because I'm a pensioner, I earn €750 per month, I can't make any more, that's it. So in the last few weeks, there have been a few demonstrations, let's say... rather big ones, with the Yellow Vests and... and everything that's going on in France. There have been reforms and... decisions that didn't really please the French, especially the... the increase of taxes, of gasoline in particular, and... so I put it out on the street, I've been demonstrating for... for the last four weeks, I think, there have been demonstrations, and... people get together and... and demonstrate for freedom. The increase of fuel, in fact, it was the drop of water that made the vase overflow. It was too much. We couldn't take it anymore. But... there is a discontent in the... in the population, which is huge and... General. General, of... of everyone, whether it's the high school students, with what's going on, all the workers, all... the hospitals, the pensioners, everyone, you know. So it's going to be necessary for the government to understand that they won't be able to do anything else now, they'll have to count on the people. Otherwise, it'll go further. That's how it is. About the Yellow Vests, it's... well, it's a vast subject, because, well, what we can say is that it's... a vast movement that lacks organization, already. It's... it's a good thing that people get together and... protest for their rights. Today, we're in Nice. Do people protest everywhere in France? Yeah, people protest everywhere in France. Well, here, we're in a big city, so... you can really feel it. In Paris too, you can really feel it. And I think that in all the other big cities, there must be a lot of demonstrations and people taking to the streets. Do you think it's a rather positive movement, or rather negative? Positive. Do you support the Yellow Vests? Yes. I support them, because they have a reason to do that. And what do you think of the... of the breakers in Paris? Aren't we afraid that it will happen again? The breakers are not good, because they're not the real Yellow Vests. They're thugs. No, they're thugs. They're thugs who break. They take advantage. Wait, let me talk to you. They're the breakers. I think they take advantage of that, of this situation, to... to plunder everything. But it's a kind of serious politics that's happening. It's because they're trying to provoke us to go to war and all that. They're thieves. They steal, they break everything. And for nothing. For nothing. We don't like that. We like the Yellow Vests. We're like the Yellow Vests, because we also want to defend our interests. But we don't like the breakers. We're not like that. In the long term, it will work anyway. Well, I hope so. But I don't think that... Well, I think that the Yellow Vests, as long as there's no change, they won't change either. And I think that we won't have months... I think that the situation won't stay like that for months. I imagine that they'll have to move at some point, because the image we give of France is not... Excellent. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I mean, the image... What they did in Paris is not super cool. It's... material degradation and public good, actually. On the monuments and all that. Especially on the monuments, on everything that has to do with pharmacies and all that. It's not... It's not the best thing to do. And what do you think of the breakers in Paris? We're always afraid that it will degenerate. And we don't like the breakers. It's true that we would prefer... Peace. That's what we want, peace. I'm not violent. But when we have a government, we can protest. They give us a little bit of road so that we can walk and make our claims. But nothing is moving forward. Unfortunately, to talk about a movement, violence is needed. It's a shame, but it's a bit the fault of the government. In the Yellow Vests, there are also breakers. Or are the breakers just people who come like that, who say, we're more or less a Yellow Vest, but not really, and we get involved in the protests to sabotage? Well, the real Yellow Vests, let's say, their goal is not to break, it's to protest, to show their anger, and especially to show the state that they are there and that they are not happy. So no, the breakers are not Yellow Vests. And if you had one word to describe France in 2018, what would you say? Mess. Change. Fixable. It's a kind of progression. Mess, change, and fixable. Well, thank you, frankly. So, thank you for being here for this new video on France in 2018. Today, you met Kevin, who is my friend, and with whom I'm going to make a lot of new videos. So, if you liked this video, leave a blue thumb, as usual, and always suggest a subject in the comments. You can also subscribe to my Patreon, where you can have the text of this video, read by me, in slow motion, if you are a bit of a beginner, and in comments, and many other things, and it will be an absolute pleasure to be supported by you. So, become a member, all that, all that, and see you next week. Bye. 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