Protests in France & America

The intellectual elite and Frenchmen are always ranting and raving how France is more civilized than America. Obviously these people haven't been watching the news lately because Frenchmen have been demonstrating what barbarians they are while Americans have been displaying their civilized restraint.
Over the past couple of weeks France and America have both seen massive demonstrations against government policy. In France millions of educated middle class students the educated cream of French society took to the streets to protest changes in labor law. In the United States millions of Hispanic immigrants quite a few of them illegal, many of them among our poorest citizens protested against a proposed immigration law.
The French protestors acted like drunken hooligans burning cars, throwing objects at the police, brawling with the police among other things. The American protestors were completely peaceful nobody was arrested except one man in San Diego, no cars were burnt, no brawls broke out. No extra police were mobilized and the riot squad stayed home.
The lesson here is clear America is a far more peaceful place than France. The American Dream actually works and American traditions of nonviolent protest and peaceful dissent are alive and well.
American capitalism works America's immigrants want to be part of our society. French socialism doesn't French immigrants burn French cities because they have been denied a place at the table or worse told the only place at the table for them is clearing away the dishes.
So will we all the pompous intellectuals who sing the glories of France while living here in America, admit that America is the more peaceful and civilized nation? I wouldn't hold my breath.