The Union of Reunion students from France seized the CSA after a question asked in "The 12 blows of noon" from TF1.

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A question that struck the people of Reunion.

The Union of Reunion Students of France (UERH) seized the CSA after the broadcast of a sequence in

Les 12 coups de midi

broadcast on October 24 on TF1.

“How can we sometimes recognize the Réunionese?

»Asks Jean-Luc Reichmann.

The candidate had the choice between two answers: "Their very long nail" or "Their eleventh finger".

The first proposition is the correct one.

This tradition of the long nail "from Chinese immigration" to facilitate the removal of hemp wicks from oil lamps, explained the voiceover Zette.

A historical reminder which has not convinced the UERH, which denounces in a post on Facebook "a racist and nauseating message" broadcast "at prime time".

"Scientific assertions and popular prejudices"

“It is also suggested by the show that the people of Reunion would be recognizable by a genetic difference:“ their 11th finger ”.

This dubious association between the Reunionese and their "11th finger" reminds us of the arguments of the racialist authors of the nineteenth century suggesting a hierarchy between the races, mixing scientific assertions and popular prejudices ", details the UERH, which does not exclude to bear complaint.

An opinion shared by Valérie Bègue, Miss France 2008 from Reunion Island, who qualifies the sequence as "a sadly banal example of ordinary racism" in her Instagram story.

He added that "the awkwardness of this question and the somewhat simplistic justification shocked many of us, Reunionese".

And to conclude: “Obviously, I do not accuse the channel of racism, nor its host.

I just appeal to their vigilance to try to avoid in the future to convey this kind of cliché.

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Questioned by

Télé Loisirs,

the production evokes for its part a "misunderstanding on the title of the question".

She adds: "There was no subject to interpretation and if this was the case for some, we regret it".

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