Scotland to leave the UK?

[Metrium]

KylieDog said:

Metrium said:

If these english speakers feel so intimidated by a strong french culture and refuse to assimilate themselves to the point where theyd rather leave, so be it. Montréal is already filled with english speakers that refuse to speak or learn french despite the french majority. They see themselves above ''the indigenous'' to learn our language, forcing the majority around them to speak their language.

I found this funny, considering the french speakers made a big commotion about getting the name of KFC changed to PFK, because it wasn't French and didn't make sense.  In France it is stil KFC and nobody cares.

Seems like just a chip on a shoulder attitude.  Nobody elsewhere in the world identifies french-canadians as french.

Because France are not threatned of losing their language. Québec is surounded by english speakers. Ontario to the west, USA in the south and all the atlantic provinces in the east. We are the last french stronghold in all america and the fact that we are surounded by english speakers and that we are under a federal gouvernment that is also mainly english speakers, we are slowly losing our language. It was worst before the Québec gouvernment made some measures like forcing companies to show their products in french etc. And still despite these measures we are losing our language. We are to the point in some places in montréal you can't get served in french. In some bars you try to order a beer in french and the waitress will answer you ''sorry I don't speak french''. That would NEVER happen in france, and that phenomenon is now spreading outside of montréal.

There is also a social issue where our ancesters back in the begining of the last century up untill maybe the 60s maybe even 70s were all exploited by english speakers. All big companies and big jobs were owned by the english speakers and all french speakers were laborers. All the wealth were owned by the english speakers and the french speakers that was the majority of the population were seen and felt as subpar citizens. In the 70s we had a small revolution where our government started taking action by forcing french into shops and restaurants, they are not forbidden to speak english, but they have the obligation to be able to serve someone in french and having menus and commercial displays written in french.

Can you imagine going to a restaurant in france with everything around you is written in english? That would'nt be much of a problem since you obviously speak perfect english but imagine you are 100%french, don't know a word in english and in you own country of france, you can't even understand a thing because every shops and restaurants are owned by english speakers that don't care about your lousy french laborer ass. And now immagine that you are not alone, you are in the same boots as the vast mojority of the people. Offcaurse actions would be taken and it's natural that we are protective of our language since this is a sensitive issue for us that affected us not long ago.