French Guiana, between the postcolonialism and affirmation national

Abstract

French Guiana is an administrative region of France in the Pan-Amazon, characterized by the meeting and mismatch of ethnicities which are an expression of this conflicting society and, as such, it reveals the contradictions inscribed in the representations and in the territories, as well as in the power strategies elaborated by the clash of interests. France, supporter of universalism, seeks in the distance from any strange memory (experience empirical) the consolidation of its cultural traits. So the French state model of integration does not tolerate differences whether those brought by immigrants or originating from peoples colonized. In the former French possessions this process of decolonization, of moral integrity constitutes a true “euphemism” of the old policy of colonial domination, creating social divisions.