I have no idea who this Laurent is or even what canon his mother comes from, but I love this turn of phrase:
"Europe imposed its culture on everybody: now it's ours too. If you shove something down people's throats, it's too late to demand it back when they chew and swallow."

That thread on Cat's journal made me so angry, and here you've summed up in one sentence all my incoherent frustrated flailings.