Quebec, the French Language, and Quebecois Identity
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But yeah, "Québécois", especially with those two acute accents (letters that don't even exist in the English language), I'd limit that to Francophones. I don't see this as impolitely exclusionary, rather it's just a matter of accuracy. People are what they are, not what they wish they were. So if you ever catch me (spoiler alert: you won't) say something like "Le Québec aux Québécois!!!", then you can conclude I'm being anti-Anglo there. |
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MolsonEx's uncle who lives in Lévis would be a good example showing how "Québécois Status" is easily achievable by people of British Isles ancestry.
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It's not just an anglophone problem.......... |
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They don't think of the New BrunswickER identity much at all. The people in Macadam and Hartland can have it all for themselves. (Though NB Acadians harbour no ill-will towards their province.) |
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This is because "Quebecois" is arguably an ethnicity in the older manner, while "Manitoban" is not. Of course, the older manner is unfashionable and on its way out (e.g. Zlatan is Swedish now, whereas in 1910 he would not have been), but we all know that these things are not precisely flat or equivalent, even if we must treat them that way in an official sense.
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If we are being honest...ah fuck it. |
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Hmmm, didn't the British try this out on the French speaking habitants? I for one think it is a good thing they failed. |
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I believe almost all of them are (declared or assumed to be) federalists and some of them are even critical of certain Québécois groupthink tenets. But they're still considered part of the "us" (and often belovedly so) so it's legitimate to ask why it's worked for them and not for others, and whether or not self-exclusion plays a role in at least some cases. It can't all be on those evil xenophobic Québécois francophones who just don't want to accept anglos (or anyone different) as part of their gang. Such things are never that one-sided. As an eminent professor specialized in cultural differences (not doxing you BTW - you've said this many times on here) you of all people should be more aware of this than any of us. |
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(BTW I also have that different, non-Québécois side. It's actually predominant in my case.) |
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For the record I've never heard anyone do anything like that to Mulcair or Mulroney, who are both also federalists from Quebec, in addition to being more audibly anglophone (Mulcair) or born of two anglophone parents (Mulroney). Which should in theory cost them more "purity" :slob: points than Charest and Trudeau. Well, if that many people actually cared about such things. :slob: |
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Molson on the other hand apparently resents, or at least does not see the need for assimilation to be considered a Quebecois. I would say that he loves and appreciates Quebec society, but wants to retain his anglophone identity. The fact that if he still lived in Quebec he would be forced to make a choice he finds an abomination. This is my take on the matter. |
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My point is simply that there is no shortage of examples of people who'd be considered "Québécois" while clearly remaining anglophones, as opposed to being totally assimilated to the francophone group in order to attain that status. |
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