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Either you are extremely naive, in denial or you'd make a very poor colonizer.
Colonialism 101 is that when you take over a territory with a "foreign" people you bring in as many of your people as possible, you set up everything to function in the way your people are familiar with, ensure all avenues for advancement are "your way", favour the enteprises of "your people" for government contracts and other goodies, etc.
What i'm not understanding is why this colonization101 rational was evidently not open to the French?but was open to the English?
At one point almost the entire North American continent was under French domination,then the English came over and just took it all with very little in the way of resistance, Why did all of North America become English and not French?
What i'm not understanding is why this colonization101 rational was evidently not open to the French?but was open to the English?
I don't understand how the French could have exercised the conqueror's colonial privilege in the area that is today Quebec at any point after Feb. 10, 1763...
At one point almost the entire North American continent was under French domination,then the English came over and just took it all with very little in the way of resistance, Why did all of North America become English and not French?
Much as i'd like to make that claim i dont believe English is culturally and racially superior to French i look at them as equal,lets just chalk it up to motivation of European settlers to North America to speak English as the common language and not French.
Much as i'd like to make that claim i dont believe English is culturally and racially superior to French i look at them as equal,lets just chalk it up to motivation of European settlers to North America to speak English as the common language and not French.
It was more related to a geopolitical and military power play. That and the fact that France and England had similar populations but France was much larger, so there was more of an impetus for the English to migrate to New England than for the French to migrate to New France.
All of which made France's North American colonial empire something of a "lame duck" that was extremely hard to defend since settlement, occupation and defence forces were spread extremely thinly.
It wasn't really about settlers "choosing" to speak English or French.
At the time England and France were very similar in their global power and as such had equal opportunity for expansion in the new world, England held no advantage over France in becoming the dominant colonizer of the new world,only difference i see is England went out and did it while France chose not to..
AJ instead of coming up with simplistic answers and playing the perpetual underdog debate jackfruit on his assertions.Defend Quebecs relevance within the Canadian collective, defend bill101, defend Quebecs debt status etc...
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