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Originally Posted by begratto
Replace "Swedish" by "Québécois", and your friend wouldn't be considered "a sort of Québécois". He'd be considered 100% Québécois by everyone. I know as I happen to have many examples in my family.
Two of my aunts are Chinese : 4 of my cousins are Québécois/Chinese. On top of this, 4 members of my extended family were adopted in Asia. All of them considered themselves Québécois, and to my knowledge everyone around them (friends, schoolmates, colleagues etc) has always considered them to be Québécois as well. Not as in "sort of" ; 100%.
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There's a bit of "I know it when I see it" to it, too. Remember SSPer "MexiQuébécois"? (I don't think he's active anymore.) He's a fairly recent arrival to Quebec, but seems to have integrated super well. I'd consider him Québécois - the bar is that low.
I used to have a large number of Colombian tenants (in Sherbrooke, there's a lot of them) and some of them I'd consider Québécois and others not. In fact, one the ones I did not consider Québécois took off for Toronto at some point (apparently, greater opportunities there), and obviously won't be returning... proving I was right about him.
Just because you currently live within Quebec's borders doesn't make you Québécois. It takes a bit more than that, though again, that bar isn't particularly high.
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