Gender roles don’t seem to have quite the pull they used to have. In 2008, the U.S. came close to having a woman in the Oval Office. Engineering schools now actively recruit girls, and more boys than ever are choosing traditionally “female” fields like nursing.

There is an old fable called “The blind men and an elephant”. Six blind men trying to comprehend an elephant. Each man feels a different part of the elephant (the tusk, the tail, the ear, the leg) and consequently draws a completely different conclusion from the others. In the end, no one is right, because each narrow perspective fails to perceive the whole truth.

African and Asian immigrants first came to France by invitation of the government. But as their numbers grew, so did the polarization between them and the native Parisians. Socioeconomic and ethnic differences amplified the distance between these two populations, as did geography, since most immigrants settled in the northeastern suburbs rather than in the central city.

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From Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to J.D. Salinger’s Glass family, the world has always been fascinated with child prodigies.