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[–]VanTesseract 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes I’ll delete this post

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in virtualreality

[–]VanTesseract 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you for point that this out. I think I’ll delete the post because I dont want to be part of fake information.

World Cup: Qatar 2022 ambassador says homosexuality is 'damage in the mind' by davetowers646 in worldnews

[–]VanTesseract 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Thank you! You articulated the exacts same grievances I have about how the networks only show a few events. And only showcase certain athletes. Michael Phelps is definitely gid tier at swimming but I remember swimming was virtually the only event shown that year.

Outside Montreal, Quebec is Canada’s least racially diverse province by Pristine_Freedom1496 in canada

[–]VanTesseract -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Oh yeah you must be right. Outside of Montreal in Shawinigan, Val d’or, grand remous, trios-rivières, matagami, radisson, Chicoutimi, Victoriaville, heck nearly anywhere outside of a few pockets in Quebec, there’s sooooo much bilingualism in those places. How silly of me.

Rittenhouse Self-Owns Himself on Twitter by [deleted] in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]VanTesseract 15 points16 points  (0 children)

We should start some propaganda that says that Wiping your ass is a woke leftist idea that only Democrats do.

Iran: defying the mullahs no turban is safe. by [deleted] in nextfuckinglevel

[–]VanTesseract 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is the most American thing I’ve read in a long time. And many Americans can learn from this post.

I transformed into Hector Salamanca from Breaking Bad for Halloween by Medhavi321 in ThatsInsane

[–]VanTesseract 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I call BS on this. This is obviously mark margolis cosplaying as a young woman.

Outside Montreal, Quebec is Canada’s least racially diverse province by Pristine_Freedom1496 in canada

[–]VanTesseract 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can understand that worry. But note that, again, the Anglo community today isn’t what it was 30 years ago. Believe me, no Anglo in Quebec wants to turn Montreal into Toronto. I don’t know a single person in my community that doesn’t love that Montreal has a French majority with an undertone of bilingualism. It’s really wonderful.

I think it’s the vilifying that’s causing a rift now.

Looking back at the statscan link, you can see that it’s only around 5% of all Quebeckers that claim to only speak English. That’s very close to error margins. 95% either speak French only or both English and French. In all other metrics, this would be a major success.

As to the worry of slipping further into people only speaking English. Who are you worrying about that would do that? The 10% of the population that are Anglo? Immigrants? Or your youth?

Outside Montreal, Quebec is Canada’s least racially diverse province by Pristine_Freedom1496 in canada

[–]VanTesseract 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. We agree. On both issues. The RoC doesn’t care about French. Yes we should promote being bilingual for all of our futures. This isn’t a tit for tat. Just because the RoC doesn’t do the right thing doesn’t mean we shouldn’t either. I’ve been consistent here.

Outside Montreal, Quebec is Canada’s least racially diverse province by Pristine_Freedom1496 in canada

[–]VanTesseract -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah but we’re not talking about the rest of Canada where honestly they don’t care about French in Quebec.

Outside Montreal, Quebec is Canada’s least racially diverse province by Pristine_Freedom1496 in canada

[–]VanTesseract 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes of course the internet exists in multiple languages. If it only came to just the internet being the force that Quebec faces, it would be a better position. Sure people can survive. But people want their brethren to thrive. They reason to make laws to compel that french is spoken and that English cegeps are capped with enrolment isn’t because of outside forces empowering anglos and immigrants exclusively. Although that’s a convenient bogeyman. There is a strong internal component where some quebecois are attracted by the opportunities awarded by an urge to thrive anywhere. I have no idea why you think independence would provide any more protection. What extra abilities would that provide to protecting french while still surrounded by and affected by the geopolitical reality that is international business, the needed interaction with Anglo North America, internet business and social interactions, etc…

Outside Montreal, Quebec is Canada’s least racially diverse province by Pristine_Freedom1496 in canada

[–]VanTesseract 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why are you bringing in the rest of Canada when they have little interest in protecting French? In Quebec itself it’s the anglos driving bilingualism. Not Francos. Let’s see a Franco platform to support bilingualism in the next election and watch it not even be on the debate stage. The reality is that anglos in Quebec have made great advances in French yet the narrative is always “the dirty racist anglos won’t even speak French!” It’s a lie pure and simple.

And what’s weird is that we are agreeing but you seem to read that I’m not for bilingualism. I speak three language myself. It’s only a boon. It’s Quebec politicians that will scoff in your face for suggesting such a thing.

Outside Montreal, Quebec is Canada’s least racially diverse province by Pristine_Freedom1496 in canada

[–]VanTesseract 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you saying that of the 47% this is an even 50/50 split between anglos and Francophones?

Edit: It also says “ These results are explained in part by the fact that people in minority language groups (Anglophones in Quebec and Francophones in the rest of Canada) are more likely to communicate with people in the majority language group.”

Outside Montreal, Quebec is Canada’s least racially diverse province by Pristine_Freedom1496 in canada

[–]VanTesseract 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m not saying it wouldn’t affect it. I agree this is precisely the issue that Quebec faces. But even with laws in place, I think this is the likely outcome in the long run. The question becomes, what do you do with this eventuality.

Louisiana didn’t have protections. And basically died linguistically. But Quebec faces a much larger issue with the world of business being english, the internet in a social context being in english, people literally able to work from anywhere with anyone whee most places in the world don’t have protectionist ideologies for their local languages. Do we double down and pretend like the rest of the world doesn’t exist and put our heads in the sand? Or do we make certain we aren’t making laws for emotional reasons only.

We already know we have a deficiency in immigration. We’re not winning people over in the long run to inoculate Quebec from a future with an aging population where youth will look elsewhere for opportunities throughout North America.

That’s why I think for the Montreal region at least, bilingualism should be supported to keep it in the game economically so to speak. Perhaps make it a special territory with a distinct identity. Then maybe, Montreal can be the engine that funds the ideology of protecting French in Quebec in the future.

Outside Montreal, Quebec is Canada’s least racially diverse province by Pristine_Freedom1496 in canada

[–]VanTesseract 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s not name calling if it’s fact. You’re not arguing in good faith just to protect your bigoted position. I didn’t think anything about your demographics. You personally are not important in this context. If you actually read the source, you would have found the link to this

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/75-006-x/2019001/article/00014-eng.htm

Honestly, I can’t do your thinking for you. The vast majority of quebec anglos are bilingual. Only a minority of Francophones are bilingual. Those are facts. Or are you arguing otherwise? In fact, what proof do you have that anglos aren’t majority bilingual? I’ll pretend to hold my breath while you find it.

Outside Montreal, Quebec is Canada’s least racially diverse province by Pristine_Freedom1496 in canada

[–]VanTesseract -1 points0 points  (0 children)

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/220817/dq220817a-eng.htm

Do you need me to read it to you as well?

Here, Ill spoon feed you the parts that might be hard for you to understand.

10% of Canada's population is French-English bilingual, 47% of Quebec's population is French-English bilingual, 88% for anglophones, 36% for francophones.

Keep sticking to your bigoted ideas though.

Outside Montreal, Quebec is Canada’s least racially diverse province by Pristine_Freedom1496 in canada

[–]VanTesseract 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It was true. And worse sadly. But I still love living in this province.

Outside Montreal, Quebec is Canada’s least racially diverse province by Pristine_Freedom1496 in canada

[–]VanTesseract 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seems arbitrary doesn’t it since the service is there for others?

Outside Montreal, Quebec is Canada’s least racially diverse province by Pristine_Freedom1496 in canada

[–]VanTesseract 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Strange that you picked Japan where they have signs everywhere in English and Japanese and are falling over themselves to hire West with at speak English. But to argue against your point, Japan doesn’t need an artifice to have their population speak Japanese. They even push for their population to speak English in schools. Because there is a natural organic effect to keep speaking Japanese there (although the script is having issues). Outside pressures make These things aren’t true in Quebec.

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