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No NASBUGGY or Steelers. The only sport will be a good barn-raising competition. Only Dutch will be spoken.
It will please me as a tourist. I may show up once every three years, and I want to be CHARMED, dammit!
No NASBUGGY or Steelers. The only sport will be a good barn-raising competition. Only Dutch will be spoken.
It will please me as a tourist. I may show up once every three years, and I want to be CHARMED, dammit!
Even more OT than it was, but... that would be "Pennsylvania Dutch" not Dutch
One thing that is being lost in the discussion is that French in Montreal and Quebec is not ''analogous'' to Spanish in American cities. Or Pennsylvania Dutch or Arabic in Dearborn.
French in Quebec is equivalent to English in the United States.
Although English has been around for a long time, it's still the ''late-comer" when compared to French here.
So comparing French signs in Montreal to Spanish signs in Miami (which BTW was very predominantly anglo until only 40 or 50 years ago) is a fallacy.
It's very amusing to read all the scorn and vitriol towards the American OP commenting on Canadian affairs, when we know how likely Canadians are to keep their opinion about American affairs to themselves!
it's not any different than immgrants going to school in english in the us, in german in berlin or swedish in stockholm.
So you're implying that Quebec is a francophone province where the lingua franca must be french and french only and English speakers are to speak french or get out and even though the English have contributed to the economy and history of Quebec in an undeniably equal or even superior amount than French-speakers, it is still all right to deny them the right to school their children in one of the languages that Quebec was built in so you can get revenge for the fact that your racist, french-supremacist fantasy of a French-only nation-state never was and never will be? Maybe if Germany or Sweden had English schools for 200 years and built up an English minority of ~20% and then all of the sudden decided to take all of their rights away, and then rebrand themselves as a unilingual nation state , then maybe yes I could see how it would be "not any different".
It's very amusing to read all the scorn and vitriol towards the American OP commenting on Canadian affairs, when we know how likely Canadians are to keep their opinion about American affairs to themselves!
The foreigner wasn't critical of Quebec's language regime. The tourist was saying we should embrace it because he wants to feel like he's in Europe.
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