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- From: duquet@astro.phy.ulaval.ca (Jean-Remi Duquet)
- Subject: Re: Americans on English schools in Quebec (Was: Quebec)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.214602.29124@cerberus.ulaval.ca>
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- Organization: Universite Laval, Ste-Foy, Qc, Canada
- References: <1992Nov3.140728.19845@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <1992Nov4.115614.3846@spxtech.qc.ca> <2AFFC58C.3AF4@telly.on.ca>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 21:46:02 GMT
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- In article <2AFFC58C.3AF4@telly.on.ca> evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) writes:
- >[...] of their cultural dillemas? It's far easier to repress English than to
- >encourage French, it's cheaper for the provincial government, and it
- >has the (unspoken but very real) aspect of revenge. A lot of francophone
- >Quebecois who support these repressive measures, take some obscene comfort
- >believing that the English in Quebec are finally getting a dose of what
- >they've been doing to Quebecois francophones for generations. Of course
- >this doesn't make it right, but it's one hell of a rationalization.
- >
- Well well... I guess mr. Leibovitch here made quite a deep study of the
- profound beliefs of Quebecers... Can we know where you've found this
- nice theory, or is it just a personal extrapolation ? :)
- As for the obscene comfort and the "very real" aspect of revenge, I am
- still trying to find some examples in my neighborhood.
-
- >While languages from Bengali to Yiddish to Mandarin to Czech flourish in
- >Canada merely because of the will of those who speak it, it is ironic that
- >French in Quebec can seemingly survive only by repressing other languages.
- >
-
- Oh! Maybe THAT's what an English-Canadian means when (s)he says french
- language flourish in Canada... Well that explains why franco-TROCians
- have some problems getting extra (meaning more than 0 ???) schools. :)
-
- >--
- > Evan Leibovitch, Sound Software Ltd., located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario
- > evan@telly.on.ca / uunet!utzoo!telly!evan / (416) 452-0504
- > "IBM's three letters are probably EBCDIC for CYA" - Nik H.
-
-
- Jean-Remi Duquet
-