The second "S" is silent?
Bilingual Girl: Northern Quebec is like the Arkansas of Canada.
-- overheard by Sam
-- overheard by Sam
posted by Overheard at Western at 1:22 PM
Monday, September 25, 2006
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22 Comments:
Northern Quebec is like the Arkansas of Canada.
Only more cowardly since it is full of cheese eating surrender monkeys.
the difference is that people from arkansas are bilingual, they speak english and honky. people from northern quebec only speak honky french.
You're in North America Quebec, learn the language and speak english.
Yea- Quebec and Mexico should get with the program! North America ONLY has Anglos in it- if you're not, you need to pretend to be Anglo, mmmkay?
If you take pride in white European culture, it just means that you are racist.
some greek people are darker....
and portuguese
um who cares?
the point is that Quebec is a place where the only things with bigger holes than the highways are the toothless, cheap whores at the rippers! god bless canada!
vidar --> the problem, as i see it, is not that Quebec has taken steps to preserve its own language and culture. It's that the chattering classes don't grant that right to the rest of the country. My province couldn't dream of promoting English over other languages (to the extent that Quebec does with French). On the contrary, our policies are to bend over backwards so as to accomodate non-English speakers. And I'm not even saying this is necessarily wrong, ... just that it sure seems different from the policies that the Quebec government is allowed to get away with (ie. the French sign gestapo).
Perhaps owing to my simplistic brain, I've never been able to fully grasp why Quebec is allowed to unapologetically foster its 'distinct' French culture, but the rest of the provinces have to make do with a mushy, vaguely-defined 'multiculturalism'.
Why can't other provinces officially grant their British cultural inheritance (or Western European, if you prefer) a privileged position (to be preferred over competing models)? And why can't we explictly employ this inheritance in schools - to be used as a model for what we want our youth to respect and admire? Why is Quebec so special with respect to its culture? Perhaps somebody better versed in cognitive dissonance can explain it me?
It's kinda like how we don't celebrate White History Month. Whites are the majority race in Canada, and English is the majority's language. We don't have to make concessions for English-Canadian culture because it is not in danger of being lost or oppressed.
agreed about the rippers...dirty...dirty rippers
10:17 --> You speak as if it were some immutable fact that Whites are the majority race in Canada. In particular: "we don't have to make concessions for English-Canadian culture because it is not in danger of being lost or oppressed."
Demographics can obviously change very quickly. Particularly so in a country like Canada where most of our population growth is attributable to immigration (and where most of our immigrants are non-white and non-European). It's not really applicable to my previous point, but I'd just remind you to consider California - where white people have ceased to be an absolute majority (but are still a plurality). Using your logic, at what point should California start making concessions to protect English-speaking, white-people culture from being overwhelmed by the Spanish/Hispanic cultural juggernaut (which is presumably the same justification used by Quebeckers vis a vis the English language)? Is there ever a point where Whites/Anglos are to be granted the same cultural protections as current 'minority' groups?
p.s. - race is really a non-sequitor in the context of my original question, but I tried to run with 10:17's illustration.
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... continued from the previous post...
I'd also draw attention to your statement: "we don't celebrate White History Month. Whites are the majority race in Canada."
I take this to mean that you don't feel majority groups in society need to have events to affirm their culture. That's fair enough. My question would then be, after Hispanics eventually become absolute majorities in California, Texas and a few other states, is it fair for us to expect them to cease having events that glamourize and promote their culture? Since (being an absolute majority) their culture would obviously no longer be in danger of being lost or oppressed...
And if the idea of forcing Hispanics to stop celebrating their culture once they become a statistical majority - if that strikes you as just insane... why is it again that Anglos/whiteys are told to accept precisely that justification today?
Do you see the contradiction?
A rat done bit my sister Nell.
(with Whitey on the moon)
Her face and arms began to swell.
(and Whitey's on the moon)
I can't pay no doctor bill.
(but Whitey's on the moon)
Ten years from now I'll be payin' still.
(while Whitey's on the moon)
The man jus' upped my rent las' night.
('cause Whitey's on the moon)
No hot water, no toilets, no lights.
(but Whitey's on the moon)
I wonder why he's uppi' me?
('cause Whitey's on the moon?)
I wuz already payin' 'im fifty a week.
(with Whitey on the moon)
Taxes takin' my whole damn check,
Junkies makin' me a nervous wreck,
The price of food is goin' up,
An' as if all that shit wuzn't enough:
A rat done bit my sister Nell.
(with Whitey on the moon)
Her face an' arm began to swell.
(but Whitey's on the moon)
Was all that money I made las' year
(for Whitey on the moon?)
How come there ain't no money here?
(Hmm! Whitey's on the moon)
Y'know I jus' 'bout had my fill
(of Whitey on the moon)
I think I'll sen' these doctor bills,
Airmail special
(to Whitey on the moon)
- Gil Scott-Heron
Listen, let's be rational about the space prorgram: there are always going to be poor people, so let's spend that money on the space program and send the fucking deluxe model!
Majority cultures should not be banned from having cultural events. Although we don't celebrate White History month, we still celebrate the culture. Shakespear plays and Mediaeval festivals are some examples. But the heritage is also celebrated everyday, in schools where we teach about Canada's "early" history, about history in general (which is usually european history), and about all the great European scientists. No one can say that we don't understand the contributions made to Canada (and to the world) by white people and European culture. We can't say, let's make a White History month because we have a poor appreciation of white european culture. Even in areas where more recent immigration has led to white people being a minority, people still have an appreciation for white culture, because of our history and because of influences from surrounding areas. Most of them know more about white history and white culture than they do about their own ancestral people. People come to this country speaking many languages, but the children they have here prefer to speak English.
omfg.
my mom's from quebec.
stop writing god damned essays. save it for school. you might pass.
no I won't!
i like quebec.
i'm from quebec.
Balderdash! If that were true, you'd be speaking French. Don't lie to us, you cold-hearted Anglo-oppressor, you!
/Tabernac!
I recently heard a friend pronounce the second S in Arkansas too, classic...
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