evacideIf you're asking "Why don't Americans riot like the French?" but you also complain whenever there's a protest and someone breaks a storefront window, I see you and you make me so goddamn tired.
Mike Stevens 
@evacide I wonder if it's an economic thing too; maybe the French are better protected with welfare and minimum wages, whereas the most hard-done-by Americans are so busy eking out a living for their families that the idea of protesting or rioting – very immediately imperiling their lives and freedom and future employability – is just too terrifying to commit to. Pretty handy situation for the government and wealthy, of course...