E/CN.4/1996/72/Add.3 page 9 the “ethnic obsession” of low-income housing offices has led to immigrant families being required to submit unobtainable documents, for example, a decree of naturalization for foreigners born outside metropolitan France and its overseas departments and territories. 27. Difficulty in access to both employment and housing for Maghrebis and Black Africans is the main cause of these groups' exclusion. B. Manifestations of racism and anti-Semitism 28. The 1994 report of the French National Consultative Commission on Human Rights contains reliable information on both of these matters, which the Special Rapporteur has decided to reproduce in extenso . The members of the Commission may refer to annex II of this report. 29. On the basis of a survey conducted in November 1994, the National Consultative Commission on Human Rights finds that the great majority of the persons questioned (89 per cent) consider that racism is “rather widespread or very widespread” in France. Testimony received confirms this trend, since 68 per cent of those questioned said that they themselves had heard racist remarks and 55 per cent that they had witnessed racist behaviour; 25 per cent said that they themselves had been the victims of racist remarks and 10 18 per cent that they had been the victims of racist behaviour. The primary victims of racism are Maghrebis, particularly the young French persons of 11 Magrebi origin known as Beurs, followed by Black African. 30. These findings are even more serious in view of the increasingly ordinary nature of racist behaviour and remarks; two thirds of the French 12 population (62 per cent) admits to having had racist attitudes. 31. In the workplace, racist remarks, an environment characterized by jokes in dubious taste and the use of stereotypes by employers, management and 13 colleagues are increasingly frequent. “Bar room racism”, which is not in itself thought to represent any real risk of discrimination or exclusion because it uses the medium of jokes as a way of spreading stereotypes, is widely tolerated and treated with indulgence. 10 See the Commission nationale consultative des droits de l'homme (National Consultative Commission on Human Rights), 1994: La lutte contre le racisme et la xénophobie (Paris, La documentation française, 1995), p. 51. 11 Ibid. 12 Ibid. 13 Tripier, de Rudder and Vourc'h, op. cit. , p. 20.