Re:For Quebec, a French Woman May Not Be French Enough
by shkkmo on Sunday November 10, 2019 @12:04PM
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The French started earnestly colonizing Quebec less than 100 years before the British conquest so that analogy does not seem apt at all...
Re:For Quebec, a French Woman May Not Be French Enough
by seszett on Sunday November 10, 2019 @02:34PM
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What matters is that the inhabitants when Britain invaded were almost all French, and French speaking. It doesn't matter much if their parents had been there for a long time already or not, it was their home and they had founded it.
Re:For Quebec, a French Woman May Not Be French Enough
by shkkmo on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @01:59PM
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Both countries invaded, both English and French speaking people built it into what it is today. Arguing about which imperialist culture was there first (especially when the difference is so small historically) to justify attempts to exclude one of those cultures is VERY different than arguing that imperialized regions have a right to independence. There is a vast difference between spreading discrimination/hate and advocating self-determination.
In general, I am in favor of the rights of regions to self determination as it is generally better when people are ruled by a government they consent to.
I support the right of Hong Kong, Catalonia, Quebec, Scottland and others to succeed if the majority of their inhabitants have a strong and consistent desire to leave.
I do not support discriminatory policies or attitudes that are intended to drive certain groups of people away.
The reality is that the anglophones built Quebec because they were colonizing it, and without them the francophones would have "built Quebec" just as well.