Sébastien,
I appreciated most of what you wrote upthread. I didn't agree with a lot of it, but you were articulate and really helped me to understand your point of view.
In this last post, however, you've managed to really offend me. I don't think that insulting English-speaking Canadians (and, as you may remember, that includes my partner) is the way to convince anybody of the rightness of your cause.
<<C'est bien cela qui vous rend si amers. >>
How are they bitter?? What does it take away from 'Anglos' that Québec has a different culture, even a vibrant culture? From what I've read here and elsewhere, it seems that French-speaking Canadians are the 'bitter' ones for having to share a continent with so many English-speakers, whom they often seem to detest.
<<95% des films diffusés dans les cinémas du canada anglophone sont américains, >>
Same in Britain and probably every other Anglophone country (in fact, most of the non-Anglophone countries of the world too)
<<90% d'entre vous vivent à moins de 120 km des Etats-Unis>>
You don't think perhaps this has more to do with the inhospitable climate of Canada further north? What's the relevance of this figure anyway? A high percentage of the people of Scotland probably live within 150 km of England - they still have their own *non-English* culture!
<<Je pense d'ailleurs qu'un habitant de Vancouver se sentirait plus chez lui à Seattle qu'à Toronto.>>
And?? I personally felt much more at home in Cape Town than in London, the capital of my own country. Doesn't make me less English. To state something paralysingly obvious, Vancouver is 1000s of km from Toronto.
I could write a lot more - a hell of a lot more - but perhaps another time. I'm just sorry that you had to descend to this level, Sébastien. Disagree by all means, but please don't talk rubbish like <<le Canada anglophone n'est qu'une pâle copie de son voisin américain.>> I would never say that Québec is a 'pale imitation' of French culture.
I appreciated most of what you wrote upthread. I didn't agree with a lot of it, but you were articulate and really helped me to understand your point of view.
In this last post, however, you've managed to really offend me. I don't think that insulting English-speaking Canadians (and, as you may remember, that includes my partner) is the way to convince anybody of the rightness of your cause.
<<C'est bien cela qui vous rend si amers. >>
How are they bitter?? What does it take away from 'Anglos' that Québec has a different culture, even a vibrant culture? From what I've read here and elsewhere, it seems that French-speaking Canadians are the 'bitter' ones for having to share a continent with so many English-speakers, whom they often seem to detest.
<<95% des films diffusés dans les cinémas du canada anglophone sont américains, >>
Same in Britain and probably every other Anglophone country (in fact, most of the non-Anglophone countries of the world too)
<<90% d'entre vous vivent à moins de 120 km des Etats-Unis>>
You don't think perhaps this has more to do with the inhospitable climate of Canada further north? What's the relevance of this figure anyway? A high percentage of the people of Scotland probably live within 150 km of England - they still have their own *non-English* culture!
<<Je pense d'ailleurs qu'un habitant de Vancouver se sentirait plus chez lui à Seattle qu'à Toronto.>>
And?? I personally felt much more at home in Cape Town than in London, the capital of my own country. Doesn't make me less English. To state something paralysingly obvious, Vancouver is 1000s of km from Toronto.
I could write a lot more - a hell of a lot more - but perhaps another time. I'm just sorry that you had to descend to this level, Sébastien. Disagree by all means, but please don't talk rubbish like <<le Canada anglophone n'est qu'une pâle copie de son voisin américain.>> I would never say that Québec is a 'pale imitation' of French culture.