Indepedence for Quebeckers!!

[Flubber]

Originally posted by Oerdin


Personally, if I was a native American I'd be pissed off about the discription of Canada being a union of two nations. I don't think the natives fall under the catagory of Brit/Irish or French nor do millions of other white Canadians whose ancestors came from other parts of Europe nor for Asian-Canadians.

I guess you could break everyone down by the language they speak but that seems crude. Better to just call everyone Canadian and avoid the whole origin BS.

Obviously Canada is no longer simply a union of the French and the English. Did you miss the part where I talked about the origins. IN 1867 there would have been very little settlement apart from those 2 groups and the native groups were probably not considered at all.

[Lul Thyme]

Originally posted by cronos_qc
Nope: It's Québécois!

See I'm a Quebecois (even lightly separatist if that's relevant) and that whole thing I disapprove of.
People call things in their own language.
For example, you call countries and their inhabitans by their name in your language.
Finlande, finlandais for example for us quebecois.
They shouldn't get offended and I'm very open to ppl calling me Quebecois or even Quebecer in English.

You might say it's just as a joke but you know as well as me that Quebecois WILL in fact correct an English speaking person if they don't pronounce it the "correct" way. Just like you did with the BBC for example.

Those same person don't have a qualm about calling everybody else in the world by their French name though.

[Lul Thyme]

Originally posted by Oerdin


Or it could be that in English people from Quebec are called Quebeckers. Whine all you want that they are not calling them by their French name but that does not mean the BBC was incorrect in its English usage.

Exactly my point.
You can argue about real issue but anyone arguing about this has blindfolds on.

[Sava]

They should be called "Nordiques".

[Richelieu]

Originally posted by Sava
They should be called "Nordiques".

NEVER!

[CrONoS]

man, I wish he didn't take it seriously...

Originally posted by Lul Thyme


See I'm a Quebecois (even lightly separatist if that's relevant) and that whole thing I disapprove of.
People call things in their own language.
For example, you call countries and their inhabitans by their name in your language.
Finlande, finlandais for example for us quebecois.
They shouldn't get offended and I'm very open to ppl calling me Quebecois or even Quebecer in English.

You might say it's just as a joke but you know as well as me that Quebecois WILL in fact correct an English speaking person if they don't pronounce it the "correct" way. Just like you did with the BBC for example.

Those same person don't have a qualm about calling everybody else in the world by their French name though.

[Asher]

See I'm a Quebecois (even lightly separatist if that's relevant) and that whole thing I disapprove of.

You learned English, you might as well give up. Our culture is stronger than yours.

Submissive, surrendering Frenchies have no chance against dominant red-blooded males.

[Lul Thyme]

Originally posted by cronos_qc
man, I wish he didn't take it seriously...

Did you see the part where I said it might be a joke but that many Quebecois actually act this way seriously all the time?

[Richelieu]

Originally posted by Asher
Submissive, surrendering Frenchies have no chance against dominant red-blooded males.

True.

Sooooo... coming over to our side?

[Asher]

Originally posted by Richelieu


True.

Sooooo... coming over to our side?

Votre mere est celle qui m'a tourne gai.

[Richelieu]

Originally posted by Asher
Votre mere est celle qui m'a tourne gai.

Sorry you couldn't handle the rejection. She only likes dominant red-blooded males.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Richelieu
Sorry you couldn't handle the rejection. She only likes dominant red-blooded males.

Like yourself?

[Richelieu]

I can't answer that without having you dreaming of passionate sex with me. So i'll pass.

[Heresson]

Funny... I'm just having lessons about Quebec as a part of my studies.

[General Ludd]

Is there a quebec flag available on apolyton yet?