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At what length did this intermixing between French and aboriginals go?
Are most Quebecois of mixed heritage.
In the early days of the colony of New France the French population here was overwhelmingly male. There were very few French women and so quite a few of the men ended up having children with aboriginal women.
This eventually changed though as France began sending female colonists within a decade or two. This did not totally stop mixing with the natives but it did stop it from becoming the predominant genetic mix of people here.
Prior to the 60s and 70s, French Canadians didn't own much of an economy that they could have trashed.
In Quebec this duality does exist. A full public K-12 system that teaches in English (for about 10% of the student population) alongside the main French K-12 public system where 90% of the students are.
There are also three English-language universities in Quebec. The most prominent and comprehensive one is McGill. It's arguably one of the better universities in the world.
The same educational duality for French speaking minorities also exists in the rest of Canada where most people are English speaking. Though it's not as mature, extensive and developed (especially in post-secondary) as the anglo system in Quebec.
That sounds very expensive, from a taxpayer standpoint. Duplicating an entire schooling system, all the way through the university level? Why not have the universities offer some classes in English, and some in French, since the population is supposed to be fully bi-lingual, in theory, anyway, haha. In my schools in the States, we learned French all the way through HS, and were required to write research papers in French. If we could do it, Anglo-Canucks should be able to do it. That way, there wouldn't have to be duplicate university systems.
That sounds very expensive, from a taxpayer standpoint. Duplicating an entire schooling system, all the way through the university level? Why not have the universities offer some classes in English, and some in French, since the population is supposed to be fully bi-lingual, in theory, anyway, haha. In my schools in the States, we learned French all the way through HS, and were required to write research papers in French. If we could do it, Anglo-Canucks should be able to do it. That way, there wouldn't have to be duplicate university systems.
It would go against Canada's Constitution as minority language education rights are legally guaranteed.
It might be more expensive but probably not significantly so. Those kids still have to go to school somewhere. There is duplication of school administrations it's true but you have something similar in the U.S. with often very tiny school districts for arbitrary reasons like rich people in a small suburban city or town wanting to keep to themselves.
It would go against Canada's Constitution as minority language education rights are legally guaranteed.
It might be more expensive but probably not significantly so. Those kids still have to go to school somewhere. There is duplication of school administrations it's true but you have something similar in the U.S. with often very tiny school districts for arbitrary reasons like rich people in a small suburban city or town wanting to keep to themselves.
I can understand why the French language is granted official language status in Quebec, but I can't understand why French is an official language of Canada and it is compulsory for use in federal government. So many people in Canada do not know French. Also so many people did not learn French in School in Canada especially in Western Canada.
I can understand why the French language is granted official language status in Quebec, but I can't understand why French is an official language of Canada and it is compulsory for use in federal government. So many people in Canada do not know French. Also so many people did not learn French in School in Canada especially in Western Canada.
To make a long story short French was made official federally across Canada as a tradeoff so that English could continue to be shored up by the federal government in Quebec.
Another thing that is important is that the French and English populations in Canada weren't always this concentrated in Quebec and outside Quebec.
The Anglo population of Quebec was once a larger share and most of the Anglo majority provinces had higher shares of French speakers than they have today. Manitoba for example today is less than 5 percent French speaking but was once about half French speaking.
What? You're saying the French Canadians trashed their own economy? This is news to me. Would you mind elaborating? Are you also saying that there's a dual system of education--English language schooling all the way through university, alongside French schooling and French-language universities? Sounds expensive.
Yes, as more than 250 large companies and corporations left Montreal-Quebec left during the efervescent period - 1960-1980. Language did become a political tool, not an economical tool, so the right of English speakers/immigrants/Jews are threaded upon. For example, children of immigrants are forced to enroll their children in French speaking schools. Jews are victimized, accusing them of the defeat of the referendum - l'argent - also other immigrant groups as Italians, Greeks, etc.
So those two cities will continue to fade away as "ethnic cleansing" bars investments, not only by English speaking Canadians, but from anyone else.
So, immigrant languages -such as English- are scorned upon and replaced slowly. They also have ridiculous "lingustic laws" with incredible fines that are enforced by a large number of civil servants. They even force Italian restaurants to translate their menus to French Canadian using their particular version of "frenchified Italian".
Problem is that French, more so French Canadian -I'm francophone and I don't understand a word unless spoken by a professional newscaster - is quite useless...and nobody wants their children to learn a useless language because identitarian reason beyond their scope.
And yes, we have a similar problem here, Catalonia, but our problem is make believe, just business, and not a race problem -as the case of Basque Country. Unfortunately, Catalonia copied many of Quebec's laws during the 80...school immersion, etc, which has increased poverty.
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