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Originally Posted by TheSquealer
I think it all makes perfect sense. If you want to preserve your heritage and culture, you have to resist everything that is changing or diluting that. Ukraine has done the same thing to try to reclaim their identity and disassociate themselves from the Soviet Union and that history and get back to who they were and preserve that. I wish all countries were like this. I wish the USA had a strong sense of a collective identity, who they were and who they wanted to be. Instead its just a huge mish mash of selfish assholes.
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I'm totally for Quebec preserving its french culture. The problem is that they do nothing to promote french, but everything they can to suppress English.
If you own an English book store about England that sells only to British tourists, you must:
- Have a french a french sign outside, and only french signs inside.
- Your answering service must answer in french first, with french being the default. Same is true for English schools.
- You must greet your customers in french.
The language cops are everywhere and they test for the above. If you get caught being english, you are fined.
Here's how Quebec could become cool :
- Make it law that all signs must be in french, with big fat french letters, no problem - just allow English n the sign too. Even in small letters, its fine.
- Same for menus. HAMBOUGOIS and CHIEN CHAUD in big letters, then ("Hamburgers and Hot Dogs" in small letters.
Why? It shows respect and thanks the English idiots like me who continue to live here and makes us feel a little more welcome in our home towns, and it is great for tourists who want to learn a little french while they're here. Right now I would feel very unwelcome here if I was visiting from the US.