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Originally Posted by hipster duck
Out of curiosity, I'd like to know what you think Asian American (Chinese American, right?) youth culture consists of. What are some of the main cultural markers of this group? Aside from learning French, do first gen Chinese kids from Brossard have more of their own thing going on?
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I am not sure that the Chinese kid is the best example, given that they aren't one of the bigger communities in Quebec, and their integration with the francophone majority is fairly recent and only in its early stages.
How about this, though?
Pierre Kwenders, from the Congo, redoes a version of an Iroquois chant that was originally popularized by Madeleine Chartrand in the 60s. With the help of rapper Jacobus (Jacques-Alphonse Doucet) from Baie-Ste-Marie in SW Nova Scotia.
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=7856744&postcount=230
The same song was also done Indian-style several years prior by Montreal DJ Ramasutra (Ramachandra Borcar) for the Québécois film Camping Sauvage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMSGd8bxRMY
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