I'm an English speaking Canadian and I don't expect anyone in Quebec to speak anything but the language they choose. If they want to speak French, so be it! I think it makes Canada a better and more interesting place. I love Quebec and French Canadians!
This is the kind of attitude that brings people closer together instead of fostering divisions. Being a Quebecer myself, if I visit Vancouver or Toronto, I'm operating under the assumption that people mostly speak English there and that basic decency dictates that I should try my best to speak to them in their language in their own province.
@@fanta6285 Be sure of one thing, we know that we are only 8 millions surrounded by over 300 millions english speakers, linving myself in Quebec city, I can tell you that, even if 98% of people here speak french, that you will receive any information in english without any problem.
But the thing is, in many English speaking provinces, in history classes, they don't learn anything before the English colonisation of Canada, so most of the people don't even understand why there are French speaking people in Canada even though they were there way before, the national anthem comes from Quebec, the name of the country too, 70% of the world's maple syrup production, hockey, snowmobile, poutine, snowblower and about anything that is culturally Canadian
Charles Fortin incorrect. I had to learn about how europeans came to canada and even Before the french came. Infact, the first europeans that came to canada were actually vikings. But they ended up leaving for some reason.
A lot of francos here, myself include, love to learn and speak English, we just don't want our day-to-day lives being dictated by English. It's our culture, it's who we are. I speak in English all the time on the Internet, but rarely IRL.
Exactly. The French of Québec is very unique and is based on old French of France and you can find it in very old French texts of authors of those times. Québec is very unique and their culture is very unique like no other - not like France, not like the rest of Canada at all but unique. The people of Québec are very hospitable more than the rest of Canada.
Quebecers just want to preserve their culture, language and heritage. What's wrong with that ? After all they are the first canadians, their heritage is strong
C'est la partie de l'histoire que les gens ne comprennent pas lol. Facile d'ignorer ces enjeux quand tu est un Anglophone né dans un monde d'Anglo-Saxon mondialiste sans pied à terre. Ils ne peuvent pas s'imaginer ce que c'est d'avoir un riche héritage culturel parce que tout ce qu'ils connaissent c'est le hockey et des restos de beignes. Mais je me laisse emporter... Merci du support cher ami.
+William Jeffers -- I don't think any Québecois would disagree with that.. We never wished for englo-canadian to become like us, we only wish for Québec to keep its heritage. When The rest of Canada try to assimilate us or to treat us like "outsiders" is when the sh*t hit the fan and nationalism flourish.
What an ignorant question. I won't be posting a 2 pages response to fix your ignorance. Do your own research. Not that you will, since you obviously don't give a shit. Otherwise you would have done so before posting that dumb comment.
You can’t say they refuse to speak English . I’m Greek and live in the USA we speak Greek in the house I grew up because it didn’t matter where we lived we spoke Greek because it’s literally who we are . That being said the people of Quebec speak French because they are French ! Much love to the québécois! 🇨🇦
You understand that the bedrock of a culture is first and foremost relatedness but even more importantly language. An example if you take the populations of the the Southern Balkan Peninsula that are all living within the border regions of Albania, North Macedonia, Bulgaria & of course Greece, you’d be hard pressed to see the difference on the DNA 🧬 tests. Cuisine, dances, moonshine the drink and the Orthodox Christianity are all pretty similar. However the languages are different. So you’re an American but it is extreme important to hold on to the language. My mother is a Scottish Newfoundlander and her parents (village’s) language was Gaelic. My mother went to the school (English) Church (Latin Mass) and would speak English to her siblings (school’s influence) but would under the language but couldn’t speak. Now I have no clue about the language apart from two or three words.
I now live in France and the only thing I think you can realistically state that makes the Québecois " French is that they speak a language that closely resembles old French. That's it! They are more Americanized than French...even the Québecoise language teacher on RUclips, whom I follow, has admitted as much. I was born in Québec, lived in 6/10 provinces, and worked in the Navy. During my life in Canada, affirmative action started making life more difficult, beginning in the 1980s. By the 1990s, I was informed that nobody could progress beyond the rank of Lieutenant-Commander without being bilingual..so I applied for French language training. I was refused three times "because I was needed at sea" or other critical positions in the naval command structure. The country had started to act against its constitution and in a direction that is anything but free. Quotas, language laws, the erosion of the meritocracy...all the good was being erased. So, I left to learn French. I planned on coming back. But, it became clear that Canada was rotting from within. Years later, although treated like an immigrant, I live in a country that has resisted wokeness and quotas. It's so much easier. Ironically, when I pass through Québec now, most people won't engage with me in French, they speak English. WTF? No, the Québecois are NOT French.
Yeah they definitely do not "refuse to speak English," especially the younger generations who understand that if they choose to only speak French, they'd be trapped in Quebec with no chance for job opportunities anywhere else in North America.
Quebecois are Canadian and definitely not French. They are much much more influenced by North American culture than European culture. As a french living in quebec. dont confuse language with nationality
I moved from Brazil to Canada with my family and we chose to live in the province of Québec because their language culture are closer to ours, as opposed to the English provinces. It amazes me how we, as immigrants, are are able to speak both official languages on the top of our own, and the native Canadians don't bother to learn each other languages. IMHO, everyone should be fully bilingual in this country, but if I were to pick only one language I would stick with French, easily. I love the Québec and their culture and I totally disagree that they refuse to speak English, on the contrary, they do the most to speak English.
You are absolutely right, most of the English Canadian play stupid when they visit Quebec and don't bother learning the language, they expect to be served in English. But french speaking people always try their hardest to speak English when they visit English provinces.
I'm Canadian and speak English I'm learning Portuguese and have to say Quebec is the most culturally rich province in Canada. English culture is closed off.
English is a business language that even in France the business language is English. French is spoken among one another but as someone posted here which is true the French of France speak many English words mixed with French. I know because my husband's nephew lived in France for 5 years.
English is mostly used in Canada because of English conquest. Just like Australia English is used because of British conquest otherwise other languages would have been used.
I'm an Indian who speaks 4 languages. English, Hindi, Punjabi and French. I completely understand the quebecois' perspective. Every state in India takes pride in their culture and language and that is what makes India such a culturally rich country. Québec is what sets Canada apart from the rest of North America. 40% of québécois are bilingual. Maybe the rest of Canada can make a little effort to learn French? Also, I learned french in school for 5 years and now after 15 years, I am back to practicing my french. There's apps in your phone for that! It's a lot easier to learn a language today if the intention is there.
Learning french or English is not the issue here. Oppression and inequality is. The English in Quebec have been oppressed for decades. You speak 4 languages? congratulations. That does not give you the moral right to oppress the English minority. You totally misunderstood the point we were trying to make here. By the way, you are not the only multi language speaker. You also did not understand the critique and political analysis of this documentary. You do not understand the Anglo perspective. Nor do you understand the subject of ethno-linguistic freedom and equality in Canada. You regurgitated the standard neutral, bleached response of someone who does not understand the ethno-political landscape in quebec/Canada what so ever. Please educate yourself further before you made such ill informed comments. Disclaimer: The terms "quebec brand ethnic cleansing/ethnic expulsion, french supremacy, refer to aspects of bill 101 that directly lead to the exodus of the English speaking quebecer. Those terms do not intend tosuggest that violence was used by the advocates or implementors of bill 101. Nor does it intend to suggest that any violent ethnic genocide was perpetrated upon the English community by the advocates of bill 101).
@@bastobasto4866 Bill 101, bill 96, are oppression by definition. These laws are suppressing/restricting English speakers. Legislation taking away English speaker's fundamental rights to education, speech, communication, advertisement is OPPRESSION sir. These laws are oppression BY DEFINITION. You can justify it & rationalize it all you want. Oppression by any other name is still oppression.
@@bracerainer537 okay, explain how they're taking away all of these rights. go ahead. and how is it oppression by definition ? how is it unjust or cruel ? just because a law remove some liberties doesn't mean it's oppressive (unjust or cruel) - most laws remove some, in some way - that's quite a strong word that you're using quite easily. and why only talk about coercion by law ? I mean, french speakers in english canada are far worst than english speakers in québec - just because it isn't necessarily the government enforcing it, but other sources of pressure, doesn't make it any less "oppressive". here's the thing - you're defining liberty, consciously or not, as something necessarily positive in itself - the word has a very positive connotation for you, for one reason or another -, and so you only assign elements you see as positives, in general, to being "liberty", and assign elements you see as negatives, in general, to be "not liberty" (to be oppression). business regulations technically restrict liberty, but they're not unjust or cruel. the criminal code technically restrict liberty, but it's not unjust or cruel. removing taxation from natives and only natives is technically discriminative & unjust; but you wouldn't define it as such. social pression/coercion/discrimination can't be oppressive against french speakers in english canada, yet apparently for people of color and women, social coercion is a grave source of oppression, and the same effects resulting from the law as social coercion is oppression in Québec against the English speaker (and again, the effects really can't be compared - if you think that's what having the right of speech/education get removed, then wait before you see what actual discrimination is. you're a anglo-saxon, you're privileged - just because there are measures to stop you from imposing your language on other people doesn't mean you're oppressed and all your rights were removed). neoliberal idiot
@@bracerainer537 also, don't like your own comment, that's pathethic - this is a old conversation on a old video, no one is watching it and liking your comments everytime you post them, within a couple of hours
When you say "the british could've forced their language on the french canadians after the conquest" it sounds like they didn't do it because they were merciful and tolerable, but they didn't really have choice. The french canadians represented the vast majority of the population (about 80k) and expelling them like they did with the acadians would've been impossible because there were too much. Plus they didn't want to cause a rebellion right away. Also when you say english is in danger of losing its official language status in the province, well... it's already not an official one.
The reason why we weren't forcibly relocated like the acadians or assimilated as to do mostly with the following: Acadia had rich fertile easily cultivable land surrounded by many very good natural sea ports, Québec had a harsh easily defendable territory, acadians were good farmers,fishermens & traders but also not too combative, sparsely populated. The Québécois of the time because were naturally very strong because of the to constantly remove rocks all the time from the ground by human power during hundreds of years, and we were also very militarized as a people, many being militiamen. The St.Lawrence has treacherous but very valuable waterways that were difficult for Red Coats to navigate. Do you see a pattern here ? For the Brits as settler colonialists it was more viable in large part due to geopolitics(as the influence of physical geography on political affairs) to have us as vassals than deported.
The principal reason why they did not displace the French Canadians is because they where the only British left after the war of independence ! The Anglos did not have a choice. It's the French Canadians who always have been merciful of their English minorities allowing them to have ridiculously big infrastructures for the tiny portion of the population they actually represent.
80k is not a very big population that could not be expelled, even more recently there is a lot of example of re-localisation of cultures, see what happened to Germany, Konigsberg and the east prussia is under polish and russians even when after ww2 they were great majority germans, slavs replaced the native polutation of balkans, poland, checoslovakia, etc. Celts replaced pre-indoeuroean british, anglo-saxons replaced british celts in england and scotland, Arabs replaced the native northafrican population, english replaced native american population of north america, and i think they had more than only 80k, i think it could be because now british had a very big portion of inhabited land and had to repopulate with european settlers, it should take many time to now recolonize quebec if they had manitoba, saskatchewan and the other big colonies, it was just that they thought it would not be a problem, then they grew their population and the problem is no anymore british but yes canadian, French culture is very good in Canada because it brings charms, even i think the most beautiful part of Canada is Quebec, the city most similar to a european one, and is very beautiful
“Refuse to speak English” Why wouldn’t they? It’s their history and their laws protecting the French language are an example to linguistic enclaves in other countries. Merci de maintenir la langue française vivante en Amérique du Nord :) (Bien que vivre dans une région bilingue ou multilingue est aussi bon)
Les lois nationales sur la langue française sont un résultat du fait que nous sommes dans la confédération, cela ne serait même pas nécessaire comme état souverain.
@@coulochonou6376 Vive la France! Je suis québécois et français(en fait je m'identifie en tant que français même si mes ancêtres sont ici depuis plus de 300 ans)
Yes, absolutely, maintain the language. But a lot of tricky socialists these days are trying to substitute maintaining the French language for maintaining the actual French-Canadians. Guy Bertrand, for example, wants us to believe there is a "Quebecois" "ethnicity" composed of hundreds of immigrant races all speaking pidgin French, and call it a "people". He's an old commie from way back. The real importance is the French-Canadian people together with their language and culture.
A lot of Québécois don’t speak English but can to some extent. Most are bilingual but I find it amazing that you have English speakers that refuse to speak French but live in Montreal.
This is ridiculous. When you're in another country, you should at least be able to respect their languages and try as much as you can to speak their normal language. If not, it's like you say "whether you like it or not, I put myself here. If you have a problem, fuck you and deal with it", which is kinda exactly what we did to the Natives. AnD EnGlIsHmEn hAd tO TaKe tHe oRiGiNaL 13 cOlOnIeS To tHe dUtCh jUsT LiKe tHaT, WhIcH MaKeS ThE CoNqUeSt oF NeW FrAnCe tHaT MuCh mOrE HuMiLiAtInG! poor Dutch...
You should have heard my grandmother speak English it was funny but she did her best and succeeded. I can just hear her today and she has been dead since 1963.
If you speak 4 languages or more -> you are a polyglot If you speak 3 languages. you are trilingual If you speak 2 - languages. you are bilingual If you speak 1 language -> you are an English
Nope, You are simply propagandised. The English are simply more truthful and not vain. Most People I Speak to that Say they Speak English, is simply lying and when you explore through instructions and questions, they speak about as much English as your average Englishman speak French. after years of study at school
@@nacimsouni8539 Oui, tous les acadiens parlent français, mais notre dialècte diffèrent du vôtre. Au fil des ans, étant donné qu'on partage nos terres avec des anglais, on a introduit des mots anglais dans le français pour faire un "mix". Le résultats ; une langue un peu moins soigné, plus familière et souvent propre a sa région. Et oui, on sait quand même un peu ce qui se passe en France puisque certains d'entre nous ce fit au média français pour notre divertissement, même chose que les québecois. :)
Ah super vous avez accès à la tv française ? Je trouve ça bien que vous préserviez votre culture, ça doit pas être facile en plein milieu des Etats Unis ! Mais bon, comme ça vous parlez deux langues, vous avez de la chance. Je trouve votre accent super sympa et très facile à comprendre. Souvent, les francophones en dehors de la France comme en Belgique ou au Quebec ont tendance à parler de manière plus familière c'est normal ! 🙂 J'espère qu'un jour j'aurai l'occasion d'aller aux Etats Unis et de passer en Acadie 👌😉
@@nacimsouni8539 Il y a bel et bien une population acadienne au états-unis, mais il y a aussi une plus petite population au canada, là ou les premiers acadiens on vue le jour. Canada: 96,145 États-Unis: 901,260 Québec: 32,950 Nouveau-Brunswick(Là ou je vis :) : 25,400 France: 20,400 Nouvelle-Écosse: 11,180 Ontario: 8,745 Île du prince Édouard: 3,020 Maine: 30,000 Louisianne: 815,260 Texas: 56,000 (pour être honnête, je ne savais pas qu'il y en avait tant au états-unis wow)
@@nacimsouni8539 Les Acadiens aux States se nomment "Cajuns", mauvaise prononciation de "acadiens" en anglais! Il y a des Acadiens qui n'ont jamais mis les pieds aux States comme il y a des Cajuns n'ayant jamais mis les pieds en Acadie..., bienvenue en Amérique du Nord!
As a bilingual person living in Toronto, I have NO problem with Quebec preserving the French language AND culture. It's who they are!? My mother is from France...my father, from Alberta. My first language was french and when we my parents split up, my twin brother and I returned to France with my mother, while my two older one's remained in Canada. We were reunited a short time later, and as time went on, growing up in Alberta, it didnt take long for english to become my first language. Now, although I have no ties to Quebec, I fiercely defend Quebecers rights to preserve the language and culture there as they see fit! There are TWO official languages in Canada. Yet, the rest of Canada...for the most part...believe that Quebec should be a BILINGUAL province. Yet, no one outside of Quebec...and in fact, they're offended by the mere suggestion of it...believe they should even have to utter a word in FRENCH...as my own personal experience alludes to, everyone moving to other parts of Canada, are forced to adapt to the ENGLISH language. So, then...why SHOULDN'T Quebecers feel the need for self-preservation?!? I applaud it! And, in fact, i'd like for curriculums around Canada, to make french a core subject up to, and including High School. After all...official languages are...indeed, official.
Q. Taylor I actually don't care the least if people from Fort Nelson, British Columbia, or even Toronto, don't speak french. People should just speak the language of their communities first. Switzerland has allowed languages to be decided at the municipal level and it served them well so far. It just can be so pervasive sometimes as french canadians to feel as second class citizens in our own country, we just want to be equal. I'm in Mexico right now, and having french services is a big deal for us. A good balance needs to be kept.
Refuse to speak English?? Where in the world did you get that? So many of us speak English (like me, obviously), we just don't want our own language to disappear... How hard is it to understand that!? Jesus...
@@acadiant2756 Tell me about it. I grew up close to Caraquet. We speak French there, but it's such a small portion that I don't know how they'll survive another couple of generation
@@acadiant2756 Well, if you're from Moncton it's totally understandable. It's mostly an English area! I've been in Quebec for over 30 years now and the big cities are mostly bilingual, but outside the big centers, it's pretty much French
@@Mayllee1 it just you to blame...to follow others...this is why we are different...we are not giving up...or crying because my neighbors now speak english so do i...nooo...way...you want to keep french alive...so be it
I admire the Quebecois, they kept their language and culture and they did not fall for the pressure of assimilating into another culture. Greetings from Puerto Rico, where we are having our own battles here with people that want to assimilate and give up their language and culture just to become more american because deep inside they hate themselves, they are obsessed with being a state and they want to do everything in their power to be like them, and the rest of the people like me that want to keep our Puerto rican customs, language and culture intact because that's who we are, and want to see our land free and independent.
dont give up on who you are...to ad a language in your culture is just knowledge...the more you know the more you are...it is not bad ...what is not good is take something to let go the other..you ad nothing...but lose what was....love your roots...no need to fight....
As a person who loves French culture and language, I’m so proud of Québecois who opposes for their culture to get assimilated. Ne laissent pas effacer votre langue et culture
There is protestant british bullying? I did NOT know this! I thought Quebec was an atheistic, left wing Province now!! Perhaps you will recall the Catholics did a fair amount of bullying our ancestors as well when they set off the the US!
En 1976, je suis démenagé au Québec avec ma famille des États-Unis. J'avais 14 ans. C'était au nord, à la Baie James que nous nous sommes démenagés et je suis rentré à l'école française et à partir de ce moment là je faisais parti du monde Québecois. Je me souviens quand le PQ a gagné l'élection, je suivait pas trop ça mais je me souvien quand je suis monté sur l'autobus pour aller à l'école, tout le monde était excité et c'était parce que le PQ avait tout juste de gagné l'élection. Le monde pensait qu'ils l'auraient leur indépendence. En tout cas, ça fait 30 ans que je suis retourné aux E U et même si il n'ya pas un gout de sang Québecois dans mes veines, je me sens toujours Québecois et ça fait parti de moi. J'ai toujours contact avec mes chums de ce temps là et c'est toujours en français qu'on se parle. Aussi, de temps en temps, où j'habite j'entends la langue et l'accent de ma jeunesse, le joual du Québec, et toujours je m'approche d'eux pour jaser un peu.
TearLach61 excellent pour un américain et vous faites mieux en français que moi. Il n'y a pas de raison pourquoi un anglais ou un francophone ne peut pas parler les deux langues. Je vous donnes de très hautes distinctions pour votre effort qui est mieux que ma langue française. Excellent!
Haitian American from Boston ..touching up on my French now so I can eventually move to Quebec. Best province in Canada imo also its better outside of Montreal imo
Wtf are you talking about ? We love that Quebec is French! New Brunswick and Manitoba are very French as well. It is an official national language and taught in school in every province. We don’t want them to stop speaking French.
That is so true and the superintendants of the apartment building where I live worked in the federal government here in Ottawa and did superintendant work on the side and are from Moncton New Brunswick and I miss them dearly. I miss them very very much and are French Canadians. Forget the racism which is horrible. We come together as a family. My mother knew a woman from Manitoba who was French Canadian. Stop the racism and get over it.
Missing the point. No one is asking them not to speak French. There are many however, that do refuse to speak English when it would be more appropriate to do so. Stop calling everyone racist for pointing this out. Only English people can be racist apparently.
@@acadiant2756, they teach standard French and so they should. But I'd like Acadian to be taught in schools as well because I think we are losing our language. The young people of today don't know much Acadian French. I think they'd have a hard time understanding the French that was spoken in my grandparents' generation. They also put a lot more English into their Chiac than we did when I was a kid.
@@acadiant2756 C'est aussi le cas au Québec pour le français québécois ainsi que ces régionalismes. Ce n'est pas propre au Nouveau-Brunswick. C'est du en grande partie a l'importance(à mon avis trop grande) accordé à l'Académie et la Francophonie comme institutions de standardisation et d'unification.
No, we just see no need to learn a useless language. Where is it used? Quebec? France? ... a few shithole african countries and Haiti? Yeah great waste of my time... Even France Calls Quebecios french gutter language.
Do it. You'll never regret it. But first find some old french speaker in your town and learn to speak real Quebec French from them. Just talk with them a lot. They'll enjoy speaking the old language and you'll learn it the right way.
I live in america but visit Montreal every year. I love the Quebecois, don't give up what you are or who you are. If i spoke Quebecois i would move their in a heartbeat. They value life not work. Gid Bless you
Value life..... That's why they didn't enlist voluntarily in both World Wars. And its easy to spend other peoples money if you live in Quebec. Ever hear of "Transfer Payments"?
@@TheSteveRobinson quebec should have become a country back in the 90s, we are not canadians, we dont want to speak the canadian language, we dont want canadian wars, we dont vote the same, we dont think the same about most issues, we spend alberta oil money while bitching about this industry. Quebec nationalism will come back as it does every century causing trouble. We will always be a setback for what canadians want by our mere presence in the confederation.
@@zachariedube1796 I do respect your use of English. I studied French for 6 years, never really had the chance to use it and forgot 90% of it. If you truly feel that way, why are you here? You have lost all regard for your ancestral home, (except for the language) hate your neighbours, despise English Canada for paying your way for the last 2+ centuries, and vote contrary to realistic Canadians. You do cause us a lot of grief, especially in the last century. Even Albertans of Quebecouis descent are fed up with you. If you decide to stay, great. Let's work out something we both can live with. If you decide to leave, pay your share of the bills and and go to another old French possession.
@@TheSteveRobinson nah i feel like we should just go away from the union i love this land and its french quebec isnt canada, both parties would be better off separated politically with free trade between us. We arent ennemies, but i fear constantly having to deal with each other will lead to exactly that or the secession of the wetern provinces. They shouldnt force you english to study french alberta its multicultural non sense. Its nothing against the english, at the contrary i agree more with with most of the times and i dont see quebec changing anytime soon, we'll sink he ship more than anything else
@@zachariedube1796 I had family in Quebec before the sepratists reared their ugly heads and until that time I thought it was cool that we worked / lived together. Now, I'm just disgusted. English stubborness and Latin temperament... not a good combination at times.
I'm Mexican and I came to Québec in order to improve my French. Merci beaucoup la gang pour parler cette magnifique langue! Vous faites ce pays plus intéressant. Je vous aime!
Merci pour cet intérêt que tu portes à notre belle province le Québec!😁 Toutefois, le reste du Canada a aussi de magnifiques cultures aussi riches que le Québec. Ces nombreuses cultures sont justement une des forces du Canada. Je t'invite donc à découvrir le reste du Canada si tu en à envie. Tu ne seras pas déçu. 😀
Merci beaucoup aussi pour dire que la langue francaise est tres amusant. Comme un Canadien, bonne chance! Canadien est les gens qui souvent sympatique et gentile. Nous desirons vous aider quand vous avez besoin d'aide de nous.
@@emery1691 Imagine if for centuries, some people decided that they will try everything to force you to speak their language and have their culture. FOR CENTURIES ! You would protect your culture, and Québec did so. Also Québec can make enough money, electricity and food to survive without the rest of Canada, they are independent. Not having Canada’s money will not change anything.
Quebec fought hard for its right to speak french outside of their homes. For quite some time, they were forced to speak english at work because the rich bosses who were all anglophones. This and many other reasons are why we are proud to still speak french here and protect it. Thats why our license plates say Je me souviens, which means : I remember
Yes the French lost the war, and with it their independance, freedom and dignity. Knowing how the Brits treated their enemies (in Nova Scotia for example), they still had the courage to hold on to the little they had left: their culture. Gloire à la Belle Province!
The only reason the British exiled the Acadians in Nova Scotia was because THE ACADIANS, under the leadership of a French military officer from Quebec (De Villiers) staged an attack on British troops going to Fort Edward and who were staying overnight in the village of Grande Pre. That's when Cornwallis ordered the expulsion. Until that time, the Acadians were left to their own devices.
Miserable. Comment. It's noT about war or else, it's about culture and kept the french language in North America because it's like that, they discovered and occupied and build city in there, but it's not about that too. It's like a nazi mentality , can't explain now but if you were quite smarter you would understand it
As a quebecer, (french language) this is a good video about quebec in english. This is rare to find something goood about qebec in english, good job masaman.
What do you mean ? I am not a true quebecer because i didn't post on this video in french ? Le français est de loin ma première langue. Vous faites preuve d'une petitesse d'esprit qui m'éloigne des indépendantistes comme vous.
Martin: un indépendantiste dit une connerie et ça vous éloigne de l'indépendantisme? Eh bien ça ne vous prend pas grand chose! Et vous avez remarqué à quel point il y a aussi des fédéralistes qui disent des grosses conneries? Est-ce que ça vous éloigne du fédéralisme?
Some important points: Since the Canadian confederation in 1867 got created, French is one of the 2 official languages of Canada. There was and have been many attempts to integrate Canadians. The large majority of French-Canadians (now called Quebecers) can speak very well English and function very well in north America. So this part of your title" (and why they still Refuse to Speak English)" is wrong. They do not refuse to speak English but they refuse to not speak French anymore in their own motherland. They just do not need to change their mother-tongue nor lose their language.
It's hard to generalize about the motives of people. I once lived in Quebec and knew many people there (francais) who refused to speak english because it was a foreign language to them while others who understood english refused because they resented the anglos. There was no rule for everyone. Personally I loved hearing the french language all around me. Even though it is a second language, I learned quebec 'franglais' in lower grades in a catholic school in new england. Quebec french has a pleasant vibrancy that is hard to reproduce in english. I hope it never goes away.
Julien Mazloum ah you must be Arabic. The more languages that one has the better they are. My husband is a Lebanese Christian Maronite and when he came to Canada he had the Parisian French and learned English through me and the television. If one wants to learn they can. One has to have an open mind and the ability to learn.
@@TheJules1003 Yes, I am Lebanese too. I agree with you that we can learn language. Where I disagree with the statement of the video is that it is not that Quebecers do not want to learn English, it is that they do not want the existence of French as their mother-tongue language to disappear.
Kifik Julien Mazloum. I know that the French of Québec want to retain their French language and culture and I don't blame them one bit. I am bilingual of English and French. When my Lebanese husband came to Canada he could only speak Arabic and French and he learned English and even after 45 years of marriage he is still learning English. @@jmazloum
Thanks for all the people that are supporting Quebec. It means a lot. Im a french speaker who has travelled a loy in Canada. What I can say is that Quebecera are obligated to be open and the anglophones are really closed up. Not everyone obviously and thanks to all the supporters. Stilll being quebecers in canada feels sad asf. If you’re anglophone, Don’t feel targeted cuz im a quebecer. I like the canadian culture in general. Its simply sad to see all the hate towards people that are doing what you would do their situation and no sympathy at all..
The French people of Canada have been hurt real bad and my mother who is now deceased went through hell with anglophones and the terrible remarks and she was born in Québec but raised in Ontario. I don't blame the French people of Québec and elsewhere to want to retain their language and culture. Someone wrote the other day about Louisiana would love to join Québec and there is a history that goes back to the late 1700's where the French were massacred by the English and the French had to escape back to France and others went to the US to Louisiana and other parts. JE ME SOUVIENS is on the licence plates of the cars in Québec. These people have to retain their language and culture otherwise they would be a melting pot of the US. I am a Canadian woman 67 years old and I speak, write, and read in both languages fluently and I understand both. I also understand the French of France which is the real French. I don't blame the people of Québec for wanting to keep their French and their ways of living.
Le français de France n'est pas le vrai français. Il y a énormément d'accents en France et dans la vie courrante personne ne parle le français officiel instauré par l'Académie Française.
Gabriel je suis d'accord avec vous avec les différents accents en France et si vous avez écouté le chanson de Mireille Matheieu ou elle parle des différents accents en France et elle vient du sud ou elle a un accent different de Paris. Chaque region en France a son accent. Le neveu de mon mari a vécu en France et il a beaucoup voyage et oui c'est vrai qu'il y a beaucoup des accents. Les canadiens parlent avec un français qui est très ancient et mélanger avec d'autres langues. Chaque pays parle avec d'autres accents. Mon mari est un libanais chrétien et dans son pays l'arabe a des différents accents dans chaque region. Hier on a entendu une femme parlé en arabe avec quelqu'un sur le telephone et mon mari m'avait dis en sortant que c'est un autre dialect de la langue arabe et il ne savait pas de quell pays car chaque pays a son accent. Il y a quelques mots qui sont pareilles ou semblable et d'autres sont complètement different. Un des médecins de ma fille est égyptienne et elle nous a racontée qu'elle voulait faire un compliment à une femme libanaise et au lieu d'être un compliment elle lui a insultée par erreur et depuis ce temps elle utilise l'anglais avec les libanais.
The real French is kind of a barbaric similar to what the people of Québec use but different as well. If we listened or read the old French texts as well as the old English texts we would scratch our heads wondering what all that is about. There is no comprehension at all to be made from the old French and even the French spoken in Québec and Louisianna is still better understood than the ancient French and ancient English.@@doswheelsouges359
@@TheJules1003 French spoken in Quebec isn't "barbaric". New-France was colonized before the French revolution and the establishment of spoken metropolitan French. Those colonists brought with them their regional dialects. The language was later influenced by the French spoken by the King's daughters, the "bourgeois" French instated by the king in France to kinda normalize exchanges in all layers of life. Of course languages today are very different than what was spoken in the middle ages : this goes without saying and is unproductive to the matter since it's so obvious.
love the effort you make for french writing...let me write it the proper way for you... -j'adore la couleur du drapeau du Québec. J'aimerais bien visiter le Québec Salutation du Sri Lanka. ...thank you love people who make an effort in it...i know french is kind of difficult to learn...
@Antoine Gauthier ..a oui...et moi j'ai seulement voulu lui montrer la bonne façon de le faire tout en appréciant l'effort...mais tu as raison...le reste du canada ...bah...je vais rien dire...hihihi...j'ai pas envie de dire un truc...et que ce soit mal interprété...et relancer une crise !!
@@davidcampbell1899 Your point being?? Oh, I guess you don't have one. Are you actually trying to insult a nation's own culture using homophobia based on your own racist mind because of your fears of linguistic differences? How does it feel to be the only monolingual in the room? Does your superiority complex takes a beating?
Bobby Bermudez the british didn't allow shit! When France ceeded Canada to the british it was clearly hightlighted in the treaty that the population will have freedom of language and religion, the acadian were expell because they refused to submit to the british crown, no because they were french
After the Treaty of Paris in 1763, the Royal Proclamation reduced the territory of the Province of Quebec to the St. Lawrence Valley. It was forbidden to any British subject to settle west of the Appalachians. It was not really to appease the Natives who were mostly French allies. The British government knew that the Americans wanted more lands. They thought that it would force them to move North instead of West, and that it would help to anglicize the Province of Quebec. It did not stop there. Catholicism was tolerated, but not accepted. They closed the Jesuit College in Quebec City (no superior education in French until the foundation of Laval University in 1852). They refused to accept the nomination of a new bishop (which means no new priests). They imposed the Test Oath, so that only people who abjurated their catholic faith could get to public office. They also had to speak English. They refused to recognize the seigneurial system, which was an attack to the Canadian elite. But it didn't work. The Americans didn't want to settle in cold, French and catholic Quebec. Worst, the Royal Proclamation exacerbated the conflict between the American colonials and the British motherland. The Governor of Quebec, Guy Carleton, Lord Dorchester, being a practical man, arrived at the conclusion that Quebec would remain French afterall, and that the British government should make friends with the local elites, i.e. the catholic clergy and the canadian nobility, if it wanted to keep the territory during the upcoming conflict with the 13 colonies. In 1774, the Quebec Act recognized the catholic faith and the nomination of bishops, abolished the Test Oath, accepted French civil law in the territory, therefore accepting the seigneurial system, and extended the territory of the Province of Quebec to the whole bassin of the Great Lakes. And that one of the reason why Quebec still speaks French, is mostly catholic and has different civil laws than the rest of Canada. Not an act of kindness (the Acadians learned the hard way how "kind" the Brits could be), but of strict pragmatism. They returned to a harder stance when all those Loyalists started pouring in...
So... how would you go about stopping a population speaking their own language anyways especially if you don’t out number them? What you say is partly true... the brits needed to pacify the population so they would not rebel. There was multiple plans to supress the french population « naturally » and drown them out.
"Qwebec" is the proper way to mis-pronouce it. Both native nations and french speakers call it Kebec (writen Quebec). ... Also, the Metis are a different (officially recognised) nation in Canada.
Funny that you say that. When the French themselves are trying to kill other old languages of France like Occitan and Corsican. There is even a Wiki on it lol: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vergonha
crazyciler50 It's more of a difference of dialect Vs language, waloon can't be used to communicate with many people whereas french can, and young people aren't learning waloon (how you gonna teach waloon? There aren't many books or movies or anything else, you need to find someone who speaks it to learn it)
Was going through the comments on another video about French Canadians and felt exasperated and angry at how mean some of the comments were towards people from Quebec. For instance, some people wrote "I'm Canadian and even us we hate people from Quebec..." and other stuff like that. So, this comment section is the complete opposite and so encouraging and uplifting to read because you guys are sharing how much you appreciate us, French Canadians, and how much you agree that we should keep protecting our language. I just want to point out the fact that we 100% take pride in the fact that we speak French, but also more importantly in the fact that most of us are bilingual or at least functional in English. We can say the same for English speaking families who value the importance of speaking French. Culturally wise, bilingualism (or 3 or more languages) is an enormous wealth!
My French Canadian mother who is now deceased learned basic Italian from an Italian lady who could not speak English nor French. You would have roared with laughter how mom wanted to learn and the Italian lady was a senior citizen and both learned a lot from one another by going after everything in the house to know the words. I miss mom very much and I miss those days and the Italian family that once lived on our street.
@@EnvyAndrogyny I love Québec and I love the people of Québec and all we talk about when we want to visit somewhere is Québec. The other province is New Brunswick. The Acadian people are also well remembered and don't forget that many parished with their lives by the British and many escaped back to France and many went to the US and the US in the area of Québec and New Brunswick share a history along with La Louisianne. The people of Québec and New Brunswick share quite a history and a great deal to be mighty proud of. When I leave my mail I am going to look up our former superintendant of my building who lives in Moncton N.B. There is no place like home and they went home and are home and are French Canadians.
Im bilingual from quebec but my first language is english ,i always order or speak french first in public situations .What i dont understand is why in quebec some english people born and raised here do not understand one word of french it just doesnt make any sense .
The older generations that grew up in English schools were not given the most extensive education in French until the late 60s when immersion was introduced (actually, the French didn't get the best English either), and that wasn't even available in most schools. Plus, many of those areas they grew up in would not have had enough French around them to be exposed to. Some, but not enough. And that's how you really learn a language imo. Things have changed, but it couldn't have happened overnight. Even downtown was divided. Until the 80s, the anglos went to Cresent st., and the francos went to St.Denis. So, unless some people have recently moved to Quebec from elsewhere in North America, most of the younger Anglo generations who are native to Quebec speak French. Plus, you need it for just about every single job.
Je connais du monde qui sont jamais sorti de West Island et qui connaissent pas c'est quoi Les Francopholies. C'est juste ridicule. J'ai déjà vu du monde surpris de voir des chevaux sur la Rive-Sud parce qu'il avait littéralement JAMAIS quitté l'île et Montréal de sa vie. Genre wtf??
they dont have to...you cant push someone to speak a language that will not serves him-hers...we in quebec understand that...we dont push english speaking people to speak freanch...of course...those english people who make the effort to say words in french...is just what it need to make a friendship...little respect...we dont ask to much...
TheJules1003 bro... not all fucking anglos are “pig headed.” this is why quebec has such a bad rep. me personally, i would love to learn french, it’s a beautiful language. but people like you are the reason why it still leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
I don't think anyone in Canada expects you to be anglophone, and i frankly like french Canada and like how we share a history, i like how Quebec has its own culture while also adopting a few English customs. But god damn your Canadiens and your second language should be English, not dominated by Arabic. I live in British Columbia and i can speak French perfectly but comn you guys.
Nope, Oh ignorant one, in Canada you ALSO Speak french, it's a very official language spoken in Quebec, in Ottawa and a few other places. Try telling people in Montréal to go to France if they want to speak french and see how that goes. Pauvre idiot.
I learned French from the age of 4 and 5 in kindergarden and all the way through high school and back then it was Grade 13 here in Ontario. Today I am a woman of 67 years old and 68 next month (a senior citizen) and I can speak, read, and write in French and I really struggled to learn the French language and I have it today. Not everyone is capable of learning the French language and many give up trying. I know that it is difficult for others to learn English as well but English is a great deal easier to learn than French. There is nothing easy in life and you have to work at it to accomplish your goals in life.
@baguette est supérieur on pense à toi, et à tout nos amis francos à travers le Canada qui se font assimiler. Même en Louisianne, j'ai vu que l'intérêt pour la langue française était revenu un peu.
Strangely, a lot of English Canadian don't know how useful is French. -It's the only language (with English) that is spoken in every continent -while English is good for business, French is very good for the criticism and the reflection sense (something that a lot of people don't have enough) -it's quite easy to learn for an English speaker because around 50% of the English vocabulary comes from French.
It's very unfair, the federal government's bilingual requirements disproportionately benefits Quebecois. Do you know how hard it is to learn a language when you don't need to use it in daily life?
@@chad9015 It doesn't benefit Québécois in the sense that they make you learn metropolitan French for the sole purpose of discouraging you in trying to learn more. British imperialism at its finest.
@@tortillawrapper5454 The number gets a little weird because some words were added to the English language via French and some shared words in both originate in Latin (or occasionally Greek). Over 50% of English's vocabulary is of Romance origin, with the vast majority being a roughly even split between French and Latin. Given that French is essentially Gaulish (i.e. Celtic)-accented Latin with a dash of Germanic and 2000 years of mileage, vast majority Latin in English has cognates in French.
@@chad9015 My cousins who live nowhere clear to Montreal have expressed the exact same sentiment regarding learning English in school. It's irrelevant to their daily life. The main bilingual regions of the country tend to be eastern Ontario and the western bits of Quebec along with a big of New Brunswick. Everyone else generally tends to function exclusively in either English or French. The idea that most or all Quebecois are bilingual compared to other Canadians is very exaggerated. Quebecois folks are just more inclined to break out their broken high school English to try to communicate when needed with the rest of North America out of sheer pragmatism. Most of them feel the same level of awkward insecurity about using a language they learned in school with no daily use that other Canadians feel about using their high school French. The real difference is in what dialect they were taught in school. Quebeckers learn Canadian English. Other Canadians almost never learn Canadian French and of course, they are utterly baffled when they encounter casual spoken French that sounds *nothing* like what they learned in class. Most schools in the rest of Canada teach European standard French instead of Canadian French dialects... which is about the same as if Quebecois learned to speak textbook British received pronunciation English and were taught to looked down on casual Canadian English as "mongrel" English. Honestly, the entire way French is taught outside of Quebec is utterly screwed up, reinforcing stereotypes instead of promoting Canada's actual languages.
Asking Quebeckers if they want to integrate into the Anglophone Canadian-US culture of the rest of North-America is a bit like asking the Irish and Scottish people if they want to become British ;3
British and English are two different overlapping identities. I am English and British as I am from Yorkshire. I have friends who are from Edinburgh so they are Scottish and British. British is the identity of the people of Great Britain, which is made up of England, Scotland and Wales. P Some people from Northern Ireland as part of the U.K. identify as British due to their heritage from these three countries while other identify as Irish. The Irish from the Republic of Ireland are Irish and have not been part of Britain ever. Although they were part of the U.K. for little over a century up to their independence in 1921. Internationally people tend to confuse the terms England, Britain, U.K. as well as English and British. They are not the same thing.
En tant que français j'apprécie le fait que les québécois parlent le français. En plus votre accent est superbe. Si seulement nous étions tous aussi fiers de notre culture que vous l'êtes de la votre, la France se porteraient mieux. J'espère pouvoir visiter le Québec un jour. Respect et force à vous amis québécois!
We do not refuse to speak English, it is mandatory in Quebec's schools to learn English and school is mandatory till the age of 16 so please change your title it is not right.
@@bitchlasagna1777 english is just a language it doesn't mean anything using english does not mean the mother nation of the language has control of you its just a tool you use to your own benefit
Right next to Quebec is Ontario, and along the border there's quite a few French towns, as well as in northern Ontario. However, French-Ontarians learn English in school at a young age, which makes for almost perfect bilingualism, as the french accent is still genuine and "Quebec-ish", while the English accent is minimal at most. Don't forget us. On se bas pour le Français aussi, de notre façon. :)
I can't figure out why the other Canadian provinces don't speak French! Are they xenophobic and renounce the original language of what was spoken prior to their being a Canada? Being from Louisiana I know how the english language and its speakers tend to spread and overwhelm, often with the force of law. Where once French was our language here in Louisiana it has been supplanted by the mass migration of english speakers from the U.S. after the selling of the Louisiana colony by Napoleon. Restez calme et fier, mes frères au québec et ne parlons que la langue maternelle, française, sinon vos enfants et petits-enfants seront anglophones seulement comme ici en Louisiane.
@@robin-bq1lz Est-ce à dire que les "cous rouges" ne veulent pas arrêter de parler anglais au lieu de leur langue maternelle, le français? C'est vraiment triste de perdre sa culture maternelle et pour quoi?
There are french canadians in other provinces mostly the northern parts with the natives. Like ontario, southern Ontario is English and "multicultural" northern ontario very french, native and/metis with English. Where just not talked about often.
My grandfather(a sympathethic good living silent gen traveler in his days) once was in the outskirts of Vancouver,B.C. on a very frequented road stop equiped with picnic tables & a snackbar. He told me that while he was there a family with two children seemingly of east asian origin, came to him and the father then asked:"I saw from your licence plate that you are quebeccer, can i ask you a question ?" My grandfather responding:"Yes, sure." The east asian supposedly then asked:"What is your problem to you all !?"
@@robin-bq1lz Hahah! S'pas facile d'être une tête carrée en 2019. Même ils devraient prendre exemple sur nous, car le côté anglais du Canada fait dure à certain endroit. Ils sont entrain de le perdre. Quand ta plus de chance de te faire servirent correctement en mandarin qu'en anglais y'a un méchant problème!
I'm also a French Canadian as well my St. Pierre family came to Canada in 1664 but I do have ancestors who were here much earlier than that as well. And I also have ancestors who were Caron's as well so we could be distant cousins since I do have Caron's on my family tree. But I am trying to learn French but most of my family does speak French but my parents never introduced the French language to me and my siblings when we settled in the New England states of the United States my parents did have French spoken in their homes when they were growing up but never did past it onto us when we were growing up so we have to learn the language from scratch since my parents only used English when I was growing up travelling from one state to another moving from place to place as a US military brat born abroad over in Japan and living in four US states throughout the United States of America. So when my family did arrive to the New England states of Maine, Connecticut, and Rhode Island they did continue to speak mostly French since it was told to me that my great-great grandparents did mostly spoke in French here in America when they first arrived from Quebec and New Brunswick. Since my St. Pierre family came to New Brunswick from Quebec in the mid-1800s and then into Maine which was where my great grandfather was born in Van Buren, Maine but my cousin told me that he was stubborn enough to wanted his children to be raised Canadian when my grandfather's mother wanted to raise them as American in Maine when she herself was raised Canadian in New Brunswick herself. And her husband my great grandfather was born American in Maine and was raised both American and Canadian himself. Since his father moved my great grandfather from one farm in Maine to another farm in New Brunswick, Canada when he was a child. So my St. Pierre family went back and forth from Maine to New Brunswick, Canada several times from 1851 to 1955 when my grandfather decided to come to Maine and married my grandmother in Maine in 1957 and then he took my father and his family farther south to Rhode Island where they still live till this very day sometime around 1962 or 1963. Which is where my father grew up for the rest of his childhood. Then my dad enlists into the United States Marine Corps in 1979 which started my growing up years moving from one place to another during my entire childhood. As a pure blooded French Canadian moving from Japan to almost all over the United States of America so far.
im from quebec, i speak both french and english fluently. Thing is they gotta learn that doesn't matter if it's only one province that speaks french, it should still be respected. The amount of disrespect i get for being from quebec is crazy.
We don't refuse to speak english! A lot of us speak the both language and I speak spanish to. It's good for the brain to have a lot of culture! Try it!
🌲Vous avez préservé vôtre langue, vôtre culture et en plus vous maîtrisez l'anglais. BRAVO. J'ais entendu dire que vôtre accent était le même que celui de LOUIS IV. Celà doit être vrai.
I'm not Canadian, and my mothertongue is neither english nor french, but please "refuse to speak english". You could as well ask why the english speaking Canadians refuse to speak french.
@@mike62mcmanus And what about french canadians in the rest of Canada? My cousin was beaten in Alberta simply because he is from the Quebec. There is no ethnic cleansing in Quebec, we are letting people live their live. We just want to preserve our culture too. Its easy for you to speak against Quebec because you are not endangered and spat on in the rest of Canada
@@mike62mcmanus My cousin did nothing, he just spoke with a french accent. And he was honest to the guys by telling them he was from the Quebec. What I'd like is for the English Canadians not to openly encourage Quebec bashing, as they do.
I spent a month or so in Quebec, found them to be some great people. There was the language thing but we managed to work around it. Great people those french.
As a French-Canadian, no idea why there's such a large amount of dislikes. This video is pretty fair, although word to the wise, it's not so much "refuse to speak English" as "we have a language we want to protect first". The fact I'm talking in English right now proves we don't refuse to speak English.
A lot of the former French explorers who came to Canada way back in the 1500's and later came from Normandie in France. Québec held on to their culture and mom was born in Québec and I went to French schools as a child and older and very proud of that heritage and I wouldn't trade it for the world.
You are by far the most serious and detailed guy creating history- and ethnography based content on youtube. I truly love your chanel and what you are doing, please keep it up!
As an American of Québecois ancestry, I can only say how proud I am that La Belle Provence has retained her language and identity. Nous nous souvenons!
Douglas Shambo II At least you are aware of it. So many Americans with french canadian last name dont even know about it. Specially in the northeast. Thank you for honouring your ancestry.
You hate civil rights then. No language should be disallowed by law and it is disgusting that I was forced to speak only French in school for 11 years (enfant de la loi 101)
@@jacquespoirier9071call me when the government forces you by law to speak and study in English. Until then, don’t lecture me on the laws that made it illegal for me to speak or study in the language I wanted to in my own city and province.
I'm an English speaking Canadian..and I would go to any length to ensure the protection and promotion of the french language anywhere from coast to coast to coast.!!!!!!
English and French are both official languages . CANADA has both languages in many places . Most motibly on all goods and food packaging. One out of every 3.6 Canadians speak both languages.. Some regions are predominant in one or the other. But each language is still protected and visible in all parts of the country.
Oh... they tried to force French Canadians to lose their language. We French speaking Ontarians (Franco-Ontariens) are well aware of this. We all know about Regulation 17 (Règlement 17) and one teacher called Jeanne Lajoie. (You will have to Google these.) Pembroke, Ontario used to be composed of a high % of French speakers at one time. They are now 6% speaking French as a first language. They will probably disappear in a few years. The premice of the video is also absurd. We do not "refuse" to speak English. We all know the importance of speaking English. But why can't we also live in French?
Very informative. I grew up in the Boston area and have visited Quebec province several times. You're right, they are very independent and very proud of their ancestry, as they should be.
I’m an American. When I went to Québec in 1991, I found that most of the people were like you. Of course I tried as much French as I could, and they were very happy to help with as much English as they could. Overall I was very impressed with the Québécois, and I consider them my friends for life.
And I do my best to speak French! I appreciate those who see I'm trying, but switch to English to avoid me butchering the language. As long as we all try to get along.
@@robertcuevas3602 Not sure what you're talking about. I am French-American myself, so definitely not racist against French people! I also am not racist against anybody else. I just don't like people coming to our country and refusing to speak our language. Would you like it if Americans came to your country and refused to speak Spanish, instead insisting that you learn and speak English with them?
I don’t really think Quebec is as European as most people think they are. I’m an American who lives in Quebec now and while yeah, there’s some places like the old town of Quebec City and Old Montreal that are extremely European looking, but those are kind of just areas preserved to look old and European. The vast majority of Quebec is virtually indistinguishable from any other North American city with the exception of seeing and hearing French everywhere. Other than that, it’s really the same. The streets look the same, they have most of the same chain businesses, the food is more or less the same, people have the same general interests, they watch the same sports, listen to the same music... it’s FAR more similar to the rest of the US and Canada, then anywhere in Europe. I feel like people overestimate how different it really is
English people who live in Québec refuse to speak French here. Then why would we speak English in a French province? This is where we came from, we have French ancestry.
@@JoDee172 You do know that along with recognizing the increasing diversity in Canada, one of the "mosaic" cultural model's purposes was to supplant the "two solitudes" cultural model and intentionally render French Canadians "just another minority" (along with indigenous peoples). That's why it was pushed *really* hard after the events of the early 90s (Oka Crisis, Charlottetown Accord failure, 2nd Referendum). Francophones and natives were a political problem and sidelining them as "just another minority" suited the politicians of the day so the mosaic was really emphasized after that until it kind of became one of these little things Englsh-speaking Canadians love to pull out when doing the "We're different from the US because of X, Y and Z" thing (seriously, that whole "we're not Americans" neurotic thing is so weird to French Canadians). Despite it claiming to be just the opposite, the mosaic is an assimilationist model in that it undermines the notion of founding peoples and it broadly rejected by French Canadians even today. Everyone is just a little piece of the mosaic and no culture or background is more special. Seriously, most French Canadians think the mosaic is a farce. That's one of the underlying sources of clashes between the feds and Quebec on immigration. Most Quebeckers still subscribe to the melting pot approach, which used to be what English-speaking Canada espoused in the past.
I'm the first person to criticise and even yell at my own francophone people when they shit the bed.. but often.. very often, you get anglophones say thing like "just speak English you simps"... that arrogance is the problem. I speak English, but my language is French. My mother sang to me in French. I sing to my kids in French. It's not an affectation... it's my language... put yourself in my shoes. Just for a second.
I'm french canadian, most of us a bilingual, we grew up flooded with more english tv channels than french. The cultural rift is created by english canada and it's roots that still cling to british monarchy. Funnily enough, when a people abroad want to claim their independance, Canada supports it, but not in its own backyard...
i'm A proud French Canadian even though of different etnicity and background, Quebec has become my home and i love it and would do anything i can to preserve this culture, language and unique sort. I strongly believe that we are stronger Canadians together and have so much more opportunities while coexisting with the English part of Canada. Canada is A greater place having the best of two worlds from what used to be British and French empires. We should cherish it and protect it for our childrens. God bless Canada.
Thank you for that overall quite objective presentation. Thank you for not falling into demonization/bashing of french canadians holding onto their culture that we are proud of, being proud of our culture can never mean being closed to others.
The French Canadians are the best part of Canada itself. Without the French people of Québec we would be not much different than Americans and that is what makes us all unique so be proud of what you are. The French made our history in Canada as well as part of the US and this is all true.
I love and admire their stubbornness. "Refuse to speak English" - what a rude and chauvinistic statement. Englishmen think the world should bow down in front of them.
Good luck with that position on a continent with hundreds of millions of English speakers as well as the fact English is the main international language of the world. Oh, yes - you might want to reevaluate your comment "Englishmen think the world should bow down in front of them." as most of those English speakers are not Englishmen.
Hey @@lmnll2742- I suspect you are right but that does not explain why such a diverse group of people who just happen to speak English but no cultural or historic links would have a British imperial attitude (a stereotype that not Brits love to throw around).
@@EdinburghFive I didn't mean they should not speak English as a foreign language, I appealed to some comments saying they should accept English as a first language. And yes, that imperialistic attitude in anglophones definitely exist (mostly in England and North America).
As usual, Acadia is glossed over in a benevolent way, when in truth, 1/3 fled to the woods, 1/3 were sold as slaves and the remaining third were herded into the church and burnt alive. An armada of British ships had sailed into Port Royal flying the flags of France.
Je sais tout ca les acadiens ont été massacré..et déporté aux îles malouines ..en Australie aussi.,i et ceux qui se s'ont retrouvé en Louisiane c'est ceux qui s'étaient enfuis.Les anglais préférais les très longs voyages en bateau parce que très peu y survivaient environ 10 sur cent ....encore aujoudhui ont appelle cela un génocide comme celui des amérindiens ou des métis.
Et le plus curieux aujourd’hui ...c'est que c'est repris par un film américain et que l'on indique que ce sont des anglais qui ont été brûlé dans cette église ..,les martyrs sont anglais ,,,,et les méchants peut-etre français ou amérindiens....Curieux non??..comment certain peuple honteux réécrivent l'histoire...
why acadian people are mostly eng;ish speaking ?..why so hurt ? why want to share the so patriotic part of quebec french preservation?...you are living in «NB»?..so this is bilingual territorie...who are english speaking and spare some french for appearences...nothing more...we quebecois..are fighting for our rights to be french speaking territorie everyday the sun rise up
Hi Norman Duke - You are way off on the Acadian history. No selling into slavery, no burning people in churches, and no armada of British ships sailing into Port Royal flying flags of France.
I had a wonderful visit in Montreal. As a visitor from the States, I had no problem communicating in the city. Montrealers were helpful and made me feel welcome. I want to come back and visit more of Quebec. Chateau Frontenac in Quebec City is calling to me.
Its called being a tourist in a cosmopolitan city, sure its cool and you feel appreciated... and btw Montrealers are legit trouble makers here, I wish we could just throw them away
Quebec City is very beautiful, I'm sure you will enjoy it. I would recommend learning a few French words though, it makes people happy to see that you are making efforts to communicate with us in our language :)
Quebecois french, just like brazilian portuguese, retains old features of the language and a lot of grammatical and lexical differences from european varieties. And because of this, they're seen as broken versions of the language.
Not necessarily broken, just different. These "colonial versions" of the european languages do in fact retain some words and grammatical paterns, that were used centuries ago, but have disappeared from the form spoken in the countries, from where the languages originate. One funny thing is that brasilian portuguese has considerably more speakers than the one spoken in Portugal itself.
The same argument can be made for Afrikaans (South Africa) & Dutch, Nederlands, perhaps even more so, stemming from centuries of cultural isolation. The spoken street level language by working class people,Quebec, leaves me completely baffled on watching some You tube clips as to what language is being spoken, so thick is the accent.
+Aaron Herbert, but American and British English are practically 100% intelligible while Brazilian Portuguese with European Portuguese and Québécois french with Metropolitan French are not
🇪🇬🇬🇷🇪🇸🇫🇷🇲🇹 Very imformative . . i didnt know all this . . Quebec . . I think. I love u . . standing. strong . . refusing to take on the foul way of others . .& being more French than France . . pride . .salut
J.Trudeau is going about apologizing about what Canada has done in the past to natine Americains, Women, transgender, gay etc. But not a word about what french people had to endure, the deportation of the married man leaving the wife and child behind was inhumaine. I'm still waiting for those tear drops rolling down his face while he apoligize...NOPE, we still represent to great of a danger for that, he'll wait a hundred years, and when were are allmost gone, then, we will see those tears of regrets.
Justine Trudeau is a traitor to Québec and to Canada as a whole. In October 2019 I am voting for none other than Mad Max Maxime Bernier who is the PPC (Peoples Party of Canada) and he is from La Beauce in Québec and he is the best of the lot. N'oublie pas Mad Max Maxime Bernier un francophone qui apprend l'anglais.
Trudeau is French. Why would he be the one to apologize? He could apologize for his father’s actions towards Quebec, but it would be more appropriate for a British descended PM to make an apology.
@@spelunk8 What is the difference between English, French or any other. Every race and language has done good and bad in past years and the past is the past so bury it. I had enough in my family of English and French at each other's throats and it was horrible to know about this. I wanted a foreign person to be married to and that put an end to this bickering. Trudy is destroying Canada and didn't even want to take Trumps call on NAFTA or anything. Trudy is PM of Canada and has to grow up or ship the hell out and the best for him is to ship the hell out. Trudy behaves like a child and not a grown up. Business is business and friendship is friendship and he doesn't have to like Trump to do business with him. We Canadians have our lives at stake and if Trudy cannot be a mature adult then he should join his young kids at their level and leave the responsibilities to someone who can do the job. I want to see that SOB gone ASAP and it can't come fast enough.
softin - Your comment "...the deportation of the married man leaving the wife and child behind was inhumane.." you are referencing the Acadians. A cruel yet interesting past of Canadian history but you need to get your facts right. The married men were not deported, leaving their wives and children. The men at Grand Pré were initially held captive in the fort, some were then held on the ships in the Minas Basin as there were too many men being guarded in the fort. When all the ships arrived the families were reunited and then deported.
It's not all distrust. I'm an anglophone but whenever an American asks me where they should visit in Canada I always say Québec city. It's the closest thing to Europe on this continent. But it is not Europe either. Most Québécoise would be quick to point out France abandoned them for more profitable Carribean Islands. It's just its own thing. Even separatists have been quoted as 'the problem with Canada is that its not hell'. And it's only becoming a more complicated relationship with globalization of English.
Wolf is living in some other dimension. English is doing fine in Quebec and Quebec is probably the only province where this old Canadian dream of "bilingualism" is the most alive.
I am half French Canadian, half English and Irish decent and I love Québec and feel more at home there than I do in my own province of Ontario. The people are good people and I went to a French schools as a child to young adult and I speak, read and write the language fluently. What is happening here in Canada is terrible between English and French. Yes it is the choice of the people of Québec to keep their culture since it can be lost very easily to neglect it. English is a business language and the people of Québec can get by if they have to.
I am not Québécois, Canadian, or even North American (I'm Russian) but I side with Québec with this. I know it's not my right to say what's right and wrong, but try to think from their perspective. They were French for centuries, and then suddenly because of a war they ,,weren't'' they have a right to preserve their culture and language and should only learn English if they want to
Do a little research on the history of Quebec and you will find the British early on after the Conquest instituted laws etc. to help protect French Canadians language and religious rights.
EdinburghFive il faut vraiment que tu ailles t’éduquer avant de paraître encore plus profondément et complètement stupide dans tes affirmations d’ignorants de l’histoire....BIBLIOTHÈQUE l’idiot du village.🙄🙄🙄😁😘
@@dvvvvvvv - Well no but we all know the quality of your character. I refer you to the 1774 Quebec Act for example. If this had not been instituted Quebec would be a radically different place today and I suspect one where French culture and language would be the worse off.
@@robin-bq1lz - Hi again. My education level is certainly not lacking. I politely question your understanding though. Do you realize that issuing insults is an indicator the insulter is usually lacking in knowledge and understanding. Moliere's position as a way to deal with people who hurl insults was well said: "A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation."
The divisions between Québec and the ROC goes waaaay beyond language identidy. It's embeded in the economics, the politics, the education system, the health system... of the two 'states', if you will. I.e. In Québec, there's the Code Civil du Québec, a civil code based on the one from France (mainly). In the ROC, there's the Common Laws, based on the one from the UK. The way those two judicial systems are though is *fundamentaly* different, even though there's technicaly a Supreme Court in Canada. I cannot insist enough on the word fundamentaly. I know, cause I work as a urban planner. The way property is seen, for example, is not the same, at all. That's why, for example, a district in Montréal will be planned and built differently than in, say, Vancouver or Toronto.
You can also compare the Assemblée Nationale in Québec and the Senate in Ottawa, completely different from each other. The ROC using cantons and here in "seigneuries". Even in sports, although less these days, there have been long standing divides in baseball and hockey amongst people. Then you have taxation, energy production, alcohol regulation, public transit, even electric vehicles, everything is different from the rest of Canada.
Very true Ben Gagnon. There is the Civil Code in Québec that is very different to any other province. We don't have that same code anywhere else in Canada.
I live in the Eastern Townships. There has never been a segneurial system here. However, the cadastre is the same as the rest of Québec, but not the same as the ROC. That's mainly because of the way property is seen.
It is a time to make quebec 100% english state or expel them out. A buddy of mine told me how qubecers are facilitating caliexit even providing funds. That is a national security threat to America. Perhaps, that is the reason why Trump has used steal & Aluminum as scapegoat to cut ties w/ Canadians. These french fcuks better stop manipulating american politics or their invasion is inevitable.
You said it right Ben Gagnon it has a lot to do with the Civil Codes and they have that in France as well. In France when people go to get married they go to the Civil Code First and then they go to their church. Yes this is all part of it and thank you for pointing this out to the people.
It's not true even if you speak restrictiely about europeans. Taking the first would be either the Basque people and/or the Scandinavians. If you restrict it to those of them who established a permanent presence through blood,institution and/or soil it would be the euskadi(basque) by trade relations and intermingling then in much the same way followed soon after by various french peoples.
No they didn't. The Spanish did. But the natives preceded even the Spanish. Don't get too hung up on the notion that the language to be spoken should be the one 'used first'. The world doesn't work like that. The world evolved.
@@barneyquinn3657 The Spanish were actually quite late in showing up in Canada. The Norse Vikings landed in Canada centuries before Columbus, and a few Portuguese explorers came to the Eastern part of Canada around 1498-1502. They made claims to the territory, but didn't really follow up on them, so the claims were forgotten. The French made the first official claim of the territory by Jacques Cartier in 1534. A settlement was later established at Tadoussac, Quebec in 1600, but it didn't survive. Samuel de Champlain founded a more permanent settlement in 1604 at the Bay of Fundy, between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. The British then entered the picture by gaining Acadia in 1713, and spread from there. Spanish explorers finally appeared on the West coast of Canada in about 1774-1775, scouting for the possible threat of a Russian invasion in California. The Spanish had a settlement for a time in what is now British Columbia from about 1789-1795. (Note the dates I have given). This video and thread is about the French (and the English), whom along with the First Nations, are the ONLY entities who truly made the beginnings of Canada.
I lived in Montreal for 5 years and it was an amazing experience to see how bilingual that city is. I wasn't forced to speak french but I did wanted to understand what was happening with individuals that refused to speak English, it was a very interesting experience to be part of the Canadian culture and adapt to it's 2 official languages. Vive Le Quebec et Vive Le Canada!.
Gasconha ; Quebec is not free as long as it’s residents are not free to choose to speak one of their country’s official language, English. It’s deplorable that a Canadian is forbidden to speak English (one of Canada’s OFFICIAL language) in it’s own country.
At 4:05, the word Québécois is a 20 century's invention. In the past our name was Canadiens. After the conquest by Britain our name becoming Canadiens-Français for to be distinguished from the English people who picked our name and translated to Canadians.
@@clementcharlebois - Dream on - Quebec was too afraid to go it alone and now you're talking about an Ethno-state. Quebecois and the Scots don't know what you want.
Very well explained. I'm an Acadian living in Quebec city. I love the English culture and language. You're welcome to entertained me. But I speak French and you're better get used to it ;)
I'm an English speaking Canadian and I don't expect anyone in Quebec to speak anything but the language they choose. If they want to speak French, so be it! I think it makes Canada a better and more interesting place. I love Quebec and French Canadians!
This is the kind of attitude that brings people closer together instead of fostering divisions. Being a Quebecer myself, if I visit Vancouver or Toronto, I'm operating under the assumption that people mostly speak English there and that basic decency dictates that I should try my best to speak to them in their language in their own province.
@@fanta6285 Be sure of one thing, we know that we are only 8 millions surrounded by over 300 millions english speakers, linving myself in Quebec city, I can tell you that, even if 98% of people here speak french, that you will receive any information in english without any problem.
But the thing is, in many English speaking provinces, in history classes, they don't learn anything before the English colonisation of Canada, so most of the people don't even understand why there are French speaking people in Canada even though they were there way before, the national anthem comes from Quebec, the name of the country too, 70% of the world's maple syrup production, hockey, snowmobile, poutine, snowblower and about anything that is culturally Canadian
Charles Fortin incorrect. I had to learn about how europeans came to canada and even Before the french came. Infact, the first europeans that came to canada were actually vikings. But they ended up leaving for some reason.
@@Thallidus really? Well I have friends who moved to London in Ontario and no one in their schools even know why they are French speakers in Canada
"Refuse to speak english". There's no refusal, our language is french, it always was, it always will be. It's not a choice, it's who we are.
I completely agree, this title rubs me the wrong way!
A lot of francos here, myself include, love to learn and speak English, we just don't want our day-to-day lives being dictated by English. It's our culture, it's who we are. I speak in English all the time on the Internet, but rarely IRL.
"will always be" sure sure
Exactly. The French of Québec is very unique and is based on old French of France and you can find it in very old French texts of authors of those times. Québec is very unique and their culture is very unique like no other - not like France, not like the rest of Canada at all but unique. The people of Québec are very hospitable more than the rest of Canada.
"Les canado-rosbif refusent de parler français"
Quebecers just want to preserve their culture, language and heritage. What's wrong with that ?
After all they are the first canadians, their heritage is strong
merci beaucoup ! Du Québec :)
C'est la partie de l'histoire que les gens ne comprennent pas lol. Facile d'ignorer ces enjeux quand tu est un Anglophone né dans un monde d'Anglo-Saxon mondialiste sans pied à terre. Ils ne peuvent pas s'imaginer ce que c'est d'avoir un riche héritage culturel parce que tout ce qu'ils connaissent c'est le hockey et des restos de beignes.
Mais je me laisse emporter... Merci du support cher ami.
+William Jeffers -- I don't think any Québecois would disagree with that.. We never wished for englo-canadian to become like us, we only wish for Québec to keep its heritage.
When The rest of Canada try to assimilate us or to treat us like "outsiders" is when the sh*t hit the fan and nationalism flourish.
Technically you are right. But French Canadians were not the first peoples of the area. Just to keep in mind.
What an ignorant question. I won't be posting a 2 pages response to fix your ignorance. Do your own research.
Not that you will, since you obviously don't give a shit. Otherwise you would have done so before posting that dumb comment.
You can’t say they refuse to speak English . I’m Greek and live in the USA we speak Greek in the house I grew up because it didn’t matter where we lived we spoke Greek because it’s literally who we are . That being said the people of Quebec speak French because they are French ! Much love to the québécois! 🇨🇦
Thanks 👍🏼
You understand that the bedrock of a culture is first and foremost relatedness but even more importantly language. An example if you take the populations of the the Southern Balkan Peninsula that are all living within the border regions of Albania, North Macedonia, Bulgaria & of course Greece, you’d be hard pressed to see the difference on the DNA 🧬 tests. Cuisine, dances, moonshine the drink and the Orthodox Christianity are all pretty similar. However the languages are different. So you’re an American but it is extreme important to hold on to the language. My mother is a Scottish Newfoundlander and her parents (village’s) language was Gaelic. My mother went to the school (English) Church (Latin Mass) and would speak English to her siblings (school’s influence) but would under the language but couldn’t speak.
Now I have no clue about the language apart from two or three words.
I now live in France and the only thing I think you can realistically state that makes the Québecois " French is that they speak a language that closely resembles old French. That's it!
They are more Americanized than French...even the Québecoise language teacher on RUclips, whom I follow, has admitted as much.
I was born in Québec, lived in 6/10 provinces, and worked in the Navy. During my life in Canada, affirmative action started making life more difficult, beginning in the 1980s. By the 1990s, I was informed that nobody could progress beyond the rank of Lieutenant-Commander without being bilingual..so I applied for French language training.
I was refused three times "because I was needed at sea" or other critical positions in the naval command structure. The country had started to act against its constitution and in a direction that is anything but free.
Quotas, language laws, the erosion of the meritocracy...all the good was being erased. So, I left to learn French. I planned on coming back. But, it became clear that Canada was rotting from within. Years later, although treated like an immigrant, I live in a country that has resisted wokeness and quotas. It's so much easier. Ironically, when I pass through Québec now, most people won't engage with me in French, they speak English.
WTF? No, the Québecois are NOT French.
Yeah they definitely do not "refuse to speak English," especially the younger generations who understand that if they choose to only speak French, they'd be trapped in Quebec with no chance for job opportunities anywhere else in North America.
Quebecois are Canadian and definitely not French. They are much much more influenced by North American culture than European culture. As a french living in quebec. dont confuse language with nationality
I moved from Brazil to Canada with my family and we chose to live in the province of Québec because their language culture are closer to ours, as opposed to the English provinces. It amazes me how we, as immigrants, are are able to speak both official languages on the top of our own, and the native Canadians don't bother to learn each other languages. IMHO, everyone should be fully bilingual in this country, but if I were to pick only one language I would stick with French, easily. I love the Québec and their culture and I totally disagree that they refuse to speak English, on the contrary, they do the most to speak English.
You are absolutely right, most of the English Canadian play stupid when they visit Quebec and don't bother learning the language, they expect to be served in English. But french speaking people always try their hardest to speak English when they visit English provinces.
I'm Canadian and speak English I'm learning Portuguese and have to say Quebec is the most culturally rich province in Canada. English culture is closed off.
The French was in Canada at least two centuries before the first arrival of the British.Why should they speak English ?
English is a business language that even in France the business language is English. French is spoken among one another but as someone posted here which is true the French of France speak many English words mixed with French. I know because my husband's nephew lived in France for 5 years.
@@TheJules1003 English won't be near as important with Brexit.
@@TheJules1003 all false, french was the international language up to WW1, and ~50% from the english language a FRENCH origins!
English is mostly used in Canada because of English conquest. Just like Australia English is used because of British conquest otherwise other languages would have been used.
I agree but it is because of British conquest.
I'm an Indian who speaks 4 languages. English, Hindi, Punjabi and French. I completely understand the quebecois' perspective. Every state in India takes pride in their culture and language and that is what makes India such a culturally rich country. Québec is what sets Canada apart from the rest of North America. 40% of québécois are bilingual. Maybe the rest of Canada can make a little effort to learn French? Also, I learned french in school for 5 years and now after 15 years, I am back to practicing my french. There's apps in your phone for that! It's a lot easier to learn a language today if the intention is there.
Learning french or English is not the issue here. Oppression and inequality is. The English in Quebec have been oppressed for decades. You speak 4 languages? congratulations. That does not give you the moral right to oppress the English minority. You totally misunderstood the point we were trying to make here. By the way, you are not the only multi language speaker. You also did not understand the critique and political analysis of this documentary. You do not understand the Anglo perspective. Nor do you understand the subject of ethno-linguistic freedom and equality in Canada. You regurgitated the standard neutral, bleached response of someone who does not understand the ethno-political landscape in quebec/Canada what so ever. Please educate yourself further before you made such ill informed comments.
Disclaimer: The terms "quebec brand ethnic cleansing/ethnic expulsion, french supremacy, refer to aspects of bill 101 that directly lead to the exodus of the English speaking quebecer. Those terms do not intend tosuggest that violence was used by the advocates or implementors of bill 101. Nor does it intend to suggest that any violent ethnic genocide was perpetrated upon the English community by the advocates of bill 101).
@@bracerainer537 "the english in Québec have been oppressed for decades" LOL
@@bastobasto4866 Bill 101, bill 96, are oppression by definition. These laws are suppressing/restricting English speakers. Legislation taking away English speaker's fundamental rights to education, speech, communication, advertisement is OPPRESSION sir. These laws are oppression BY DEFINITION. You can justify it & rationalize it all you want. Oppression by any other name is still oppression.
@@bracerainer537 okay, explain how they're taking away all of these rights. go ahead. and how is it oppression by definition ? how is it unjust or cruel ? just because a law remove some liberties doesn't mean it's oppressive (unjust or cruel) - most laws remove some, in some way - that's quite a strong word that you're using quite easily.
and why only talk about coercion by law ? I mean, french speakers in english canada are far worst than english speakers in québec - just because it isn't necessarily the government enforcing it, but other sources of pressure, doesn't make it any less "oppressive".
here's the thing - you're defining liberty, consciously or not, as something necessarily positive in itself - the word has a very positive connotation for you, for one reason or another -, and so you only assign elements you see as positives, in general, to being "liberty", and assign elements you see as negatives, in general, to be "not liberty" (to be oppression). business regulations technically restrict liberty, but they're not unjust or cruel. the criminal code technically restrict liberty, but it's not unjust or cruel. removing taxation from natives and only natives is technically discriminative & unjust; but you wouldn't define it as such. social pression/coercion/discrimination can't be oppressive against french speakers in english canada, yet apparently for people of color and women, social coercion is a grave source of oppression, and the same effects resulting from the law as social coercion is oppression in Québec against the English speaker (and again, the effects really can't be compared - if you think that's what having the right of speech/education get removed, then wait before you see what actual discrimination is. you're a anglo-saxon, you're privileged - just because there are measures to stop you from imposing your language on other people doesn't mean you're oppressed and all your rights were removed).
neoliberal idiot
@@bracerainer537 also, don't like your own comment, that's pathethic - this is a old conversation on a old video, no one is watching it and liking your comments everytime you post them, within a couple of hours
When you say "the british could've forced their language on the french canadians after the conquest" it sounds like they didn't do it because they were merciful and tolerable, but they didn't really have choice. The french canadians represented the vast majority of the population (about 80k) and expelling them like they did with the acadians would've been impossible because there were too much. Plus they didn't want to cause a rebellion right away. Also when you say english is in danger of losing its official language status in the province, well... it's already not an official one.
The reason why we weren't forcibly relocated like the acadians or assimilated as to do mostly with the following: Acadia had rich fertile easily cultivable land surrounded by many very good natural sea ports, Québec had a harsh easily defendable territory, acadians were good farmers,fishermens & traders but also not too combative, sparsely populated. The Québécois of the time because were naturally very strong because of the to constantly remove rocks all the time from the ground by human power during hundreds of years, and we were also very militarized as a people, many being militiamen. The St.Lawrence has treacherous but very valuable waterways that were difficult for Red Coats to navigate.
Do you see a pattern here ? For the Brits as settler colonialists it was more viable in large part due to geopolitics(as the influence of physical geography on political affairs) to have us as vassals than deported.
Look at what happened to the Metis! If they could have shipped out the Quebs, they wouldn't have hesitated. The Quebs held their ground well.
The principal reason why they did not displace the French Canadians is because they where the only British left after the war of independence ! The Anglos did not have a choice. It's the French Canadians who always have been merciful of their English minorities allowing them to have ridiculously big infrastructures for the tiny portion of the population they actually represent.
so true, it's not an official language here 😅 maybe he needs to do a bit (or a lot) more research on the subject. 🙃
80k is not a very big population that could not be expelled, even more recently there is a lot of example of re-localisation of cultures, see what happened to Germany, Konigsberg and the east prussia is under polish and russians even when after ww2 they were great majority germans, slavs replaced the native polutation of balkans, poland, checoslovakia, etc. Celts replaced pre-indoeuroean british, anglo-saxons replaced british celts in england and scotland, Arabs replaced the native northafrican population, english replaced native american population of north america, and i think they had more than only 80k, i think it could be because now british had a very big portion of inhabited land and had to repopulate with european settlers, it should take many time to now recolonize quebec if they had manitoba, saskatchewan and the other big colonies, it was just that they thought it would not be a problem, then they grew their population and the problem is no anymore british but yes canadian, French culture is very good in Canada because it brings charms, even i think the most beautiful part of Canada is Quebec, the city most similar to a european one, and is very beautiful
“Refuse to speak English” Why wouldn’t they? It’s their history and their laws protecting the French language are an example to linguistic enclaves in other countries.
Merci de maintenir la langue française vivante en Amérique du Nord :)
(Bien que vivre dans une région bilingue ou multilingue est aussi bon)
Les lois nationales sur la langue française sont un résultat du fait que nous sommes dans la confédération, cela ne serait même pas nécessaire comme état souverain.
Oui effectivement! Vive le Quebec, nos frères!
@@coulochonou6376 Vive la France! Je suis québécois et français(en fait je m'identifie en tant que français même si mes ancêtres sont ici depuis plus de 300 ans)
@@bitchlasagna1777 On pense à vous en Europe, cousins Français d'Amérique du Nord :)
Yes, absolutely, maintain the language. But a lot of tricky socialists these days are trying to substitute maintaining the French language for maintaining the actual French-Canadians. Guy Bertrand, for example, wants us to believe there is a "Quebecois" "ethnicity" composed of hundreds of immigrant races all speaking pidgin French, and call it a "people". He's an old commie from way back. The real importance is the French-Canadian people together with their language and culture.
A lot of Québécois don’t speak English but can to some extent. Most are bilingual but I find it amazing that you have English speakers that refuse to speak French but live in Montreal.
That's what English natives tend to do. You have many of them in severeal citys or regions in Europe refusing to speak the current language.
This is ridiculous. When you're in another country, you should at least be able to respect their languages and try as much as you can to speak their normal language. If not, it's like you say "whether you like it or not, I put myself here. If you have a problem, fuck you and deal with it", which is kinda exactly what we did to the Natives.
AnD EnGlIsHmEn hAd tO TaKe tHe oRiGiNaL 13 cOlOnIeS To tHe dUtCh jUsT LiKe tHaT, WhIcH MaKeS ThE CoNqUeSt oF NeW FrAnCe tHaT MuCh mOrE HuMiLiAtInG!
poor Dutch...
They are like perpetual tourists in their own country
You should have heard my grandmother speak English it was funny but she did her best and succeeded. I can just hear her today and she has been dead since 1963.
For sure ! But you know what pisses that kind of person the most ? You answer to them in French while following conversation ahaha
If you speak 4 languages or more -> you are a polyglot
If you speak 3 languages. you are trilingual
If you speak 2 - languages. you are bilingual
If you speak 1 language -> you are an English
nice one
@@NarvT86 he didn't even type it right
or Spanish
Lmao
Nope, You are simply propagandised. The English are simply more truthful and not vain. Most People I Speak to that Say they Speak English, is simply lying and when you explore through instructions and questions, they speak about as much English as your average Englishman speak French. after years of study at school
I'm Acadian! People always forget about us but we speak French too lol
Hi there ! I am french and i would like to know if acadians still speak french ? Or at least, do acadians know a bit about france ?
Thanx !
@@nacimsouni8539 Oui, tous les acadiens parlent français, mais notre dialècte diffèrent du vôtre. Au fil des ans, étant donné qu'on partage nos terres avec des anglais, on a introduit des mots anglais dans le français pour faire un "mix". Le résultats ; une langue un peu moins soigné, plus familière et souvent propre a sa région. Et oui, on sait quand même un peu ce qui se passe en France puisque certains d'entre nous ce fit au média français pour notre divertissement, même chose que les québecois. :)
Ah super vous avez accès à la tv française ?
Je trouve ça bien que vous préserviez votre culture, ça doit pas être facile en plein milieu des Etats Unis ! Mais bon, comme ça vous parlez deux langues, vous avez de la chance.
Je trouve votre accent super sympa et très facile à comprendre. Souvent, les francophones en dehors de la France comme en Belgique ou au Quebec ont tendance à parler de manière plus familière c'est normal ! 🙂
J'espère qu'un jour j'aurai l'occasion d'aller aux Etats Unis et de passer en Acadie 👌😉
@@nacimsouni8539 Il y a bel et bien une population acadienne au états-unis, mais il y a aussi une plus petite population au canada, là ou les premiers acadiens on vue le jour. Canada: 96,145
États-Unis: 901,260
Québec: 32,950
Nouveau-Brunswick(Là ou je vis :) : 25,400
France: 20,400
Nouvelle-Écosse: 11,180
Ontario: 8,745
Île du prince Édouard: 3,020
Maine: 30,000
Louisianne: 815,260
Texas: 56,000
(pour être honnête, je ne savais pas qu'il y en avait tant au états-unis wow)
@@nacimsouni8539 Les Acadiens aux States se nomment "Cajuns", mauvaise prononciation de "acadiens" en anglais! Il y a des Acadiens qui n'ont jamais mis les pieds aux States comme il y a des Cajuns n'ayant jamais mis les pieds en Acadie..., bienvenue en Amérique du Nord!
As a bilingual person living in Toronto, I have NO problem with Quebec preserving the French language AND culture. It's who they are!? My mother is from France...my father, from Alberta. My first language was french and when we my parents split up, my twin brother and I returned to France with my mother, while my two older one's remained in Canada. We were reunited a short time later, and as time went on, growing up in Alberta, it didnt take long for english to become my first language. Now, although I have no ties to Quebec, I fiercely defend Quebecers rights to preserve the language and culture there as they see fit! There are TWO official languages in Canada. Yet, the rest of Canada...for the most part...believe that Quebec should be a BILINGUAL province. Yet, no one outside of Quebec...and in fact, they're offended by the mere suggestion of it...believe they should even have to utter a word in FRENCH...as my own personal experience alludes to, everyone moving to other parts of Canada, are forced to adapt to the ENGLISH language.
So, then...why SHOULDN'T Quebecers feel the need for self-preservation?!? I applaud it! And, in fact, i'd like for curriculums around Canada, to make french a core subject up to, and including High School. After all...official languages are...indeed, official.
Q. Taylor I actually don't care the least if people from Fort Nelson, British Columbia, or even Toronto, don't speak french. People should just speak the language of their communities first. Switzerland has allowed languages to be decided at the municipal level and it served them well so far. It just can be so pervasive sometimes as french canadians to feel as second class citizens in our own country, we just want to be equal. I'm in Mexico right now, and having french services is a big deal for us. A good balance needs to be kept.
exactement..
exactement.
The "Elliots" were from Scotland in the Eastern Townships, hence the name "Pierre Elliot Trudeau".
Merci
Refuse to speak English?? Where in the world did you get that? So many of us speak English (like me, obviously), we just don't want our own language to disappear... How hard is it to understand that!? Jesus...
I don't understand what their saying ,English is overtaking French in Acadia
@@acadiant2756 Tell me about it. I grew up close to Caraquet. We speak French there, but it's such a small portion that I don't know how they'll survive another couple of generation
@@Mayllee1 it's tough ,no one ever taught me but I can understand them for the most part just can't speak it
@@acadiant2756 Well, if you're from Moncton it's totally understandable. It's mostly an English area! I've been in Quebec for over 30 years now and the big cities are mostly bilingual, but outside the big centers, it's pretty much French
@@Mayllee1 it just you to blame...to follow others...this is why we are different...we are not giving up...or crying because my neighbors now speak english so do i...nooo...way...you want to keep french alive...so be it
Why do they have to speak English? Do you ask why the English Canadians refuse to speak French?
They don't have to speak English. They have to stop passing laws that Target Anglophones.
@Dustin Stich You should learn the sentence '' This isn't France you jackass, your unfunny stereotype doesn't even fit the situation ''
@Dustin Stich lol For France yes , not for Quebec
@Dustin Stich Your mom is based on surrender
Good question 🤔
I admire the Quebecois, they kept their language and culture and they did not fall for the pressure of assimilating into another culture. Greetings from Puerto Rico, where we are having our own battles here with people that want to assimilate and give up their language and culture just to become more american because deep inside they hate themselves, they are obsessed with being a state and they want to do everything in their power to be like them, and the rest of the people like me that want to keep our Puerto rican customs, language and culture intact because that's who we are, and want to see our land free and independent.
dont give up on who you are...to ad a language in your culture is just knowledge...the more you know the more you are...it is not bad ...what is not good is take something to let go the other..you ad nothing...but lose what was....love your roots...no need to fight....
Sad to see its the communists who want independence in Puerto Rico.
They'll destroy your culture for you.
@@declannewton2556 Sad to see a american alive
@@neyougogo9923
Reiterate your statement in propoer English please.
I can barely infer what you mean to say.
@@declannewton2556 you don't understand me because you have low iq
Why do English Canadians still refuse to speak French??
It'd be nice if just the whole country was bilingual
Beca Coelho Because French isn’t the international language, English is.
@@Yonagunidc thank you ♥
@@YangSing1 There is no such thing as an international language
Miriam Potter Yes there is. The world lingua franca is English. It’s the same thing
As a person who loves French culture and language, I’m so proud of Québecois who opposes for their culture to get assimilated. Ne laissent pas effacer votre langue et culture
Je suis d'accord avec vous et il ne faut jamais perdre la langue française et votre culture.
Dont worry, we are strong ! Thanks by the way
On m'y dead body! Je me souviens
Toujours là après plus de 400 ans!
Canada is british English French is irrelevant there really
As a Catholic American of French Canadian decent, I hope they keep their culture and resist protestant British bullying!
There is protestant british bullying? I did NOT know this! I thought Quebec was an atheistic, left wing Province now!! Perhaps you will recall the Catholics did a fair amount of bullying our ancestors as well when they set off the the US!
@@inconnu4961 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
LEARN ENGLISH LIBERAL! 🇫🇷 🔫 🏴
En 1976, je suis démenagé au Québec avec ma famille des États-Unis. J'avais 14 ans. C'était au nord, à la Baie James que nous nous sommes démenagés et je suis rentré à l'école française et à partir de ce moment là je faisais parti du monde Québecois. Je me souviens quand le PQ a gagné l'élection, je suivait pas trop ça mais je me souvien quand je suis monté sur l'autobus pour aller à l'école, tout le monde était excité et c'était parce que le PQ avait tout juste de gagné l'élection. Le monde pensait qu'ils l'auraient leur indépendence. En tout cas, ça fait 30 ans que je suis retourné aux E U et même si il n'ya pas un gout de sang Québecois dans mes veines, je me sens toujours Québecois et ça fait parti de moi. J'ai toujours contact avec mes chums de ce temps là et c'est toujours en français qu'on se parle. Aussi, de temps en temps, où j'habite j'entends la langue et l'accent de ma jeunesse, le joual du Québec, et toujours je m'approche d'eux pour jaser un peu.
TearLach61 excellent pour un américain et vous faites mieux en français que moi. Il n'y a pas de raison pourquoi un anglais ou un francophone ne peut pas parler les deux langues. Je vous donnes de très hautes distinctions pour votre effort qui est mieux que ma langue française. Excellent!
Tu devrais revenir nous voir. On pourrait construire un pays ensemble!
En fait, on dit "j'ai déménagé au Québec" "nous avons déménagé"...
superbe histoire
Votre témoignage est très touchant. Merci pour le partage. J'espère que vous garderez vos chums québécois pour la vie!
I am a Black québécois and our language french for ever ,all province excet Québec ,do Speak english so we need to protect our language
Merci 👍🏼
I can't wait til this whole language is lost forever
@@Bambam- ok sad loser...
@@Bambam-Shut up, dirty francophobic
Haitian American from Boston ..touching up on my French now so I can eventually move to Quebec. Best province in Canada imo also its better outside of Montreal imo
Wtf are you talking about ? We love that Quebec is French! New Brunswick and Manitoba are very French as well. It is an official national language and taught in school in every province. We don’t want them to stop speaking French.
That is so true and the superintendants of the apartment building where I live worked in the federal government here in Ottawa and did superintendant work on the side and are from Moncton New Brunswick and I miss them dearly. I miss them very very much and are French Canadians. Forget the racism which is horrible. We come together as a family. My mother knew a woman from Manitoba who was French Canadian. Stop the racism and get over it.
Missing the point. No one is asking them not to speak French. There are many however, that do refuse to speak English when it would be more appropriate to do so. Stop calling everyone racist for pointing this out. Only English people can be racist apparently.
their teaching the normal French instead of Acadian French here in nb
@@acadiant2756, they teach standard French and so they should. But I'd like Acadian to be taught in schools as well because I think we are losing our language. The young people of today don't know much Acadian French. I think they'd have a hard time understanding the French that was spoken in my grandparents' generation. They also put a lot more English into their Chiac than we did when I was a kid.
@@acadiant2756 C'est aussi le cas au Québec pour le français québécois ainsi que ces régionalismes. Ce n'est pas propre au Nouveau-Brunswick. C'est du en grande partie a l'importance(à mon avis trop grande) accordé à l'Académie et la Francophonie comme institutions de standardisation et d'unification.
Vive la culture québécoise ! Vive la langue française !
So long as laws don’t force me to do any more French on me.
"Oh Canada, everyone loves Canadians"
Except Saudi Arabia
Well if they are hated by Saudi Arabia then clearly they are awful, awful people /s
Mhm
lol
Hurricane Hunter03. Americans hate Canada and Canadians too
fuck saudi
It’s the English who refuse to speak French because “it’s hard”. Mandarin is hard. Not speaking French is just lazy for English Canadians.
I agree. Anyone who can't learn French (or any language for that matter), it's because they have a bad attitude about it.
No, we just see no need to learn a useless language. Where is it used? Quebec? France? ... a few shithole african countries and Haiti? Yeah great waste of my time... Even France Calls Quebecios french gutter language.
@@unclesaboin WRONG, French is just useless, I know spanish, and some japanese, because it's of worth to me. French has no value.
Kevin is angry because french people have bigger dicks.
@@thedindon I don't know about that.... I do know they are bigger dicks tho.
I live in maine but my family is acadian. Im starting to learn french. I want to move to Quebec
Do it. You'll never regret it. But first find some old french speaker in your town and learn to speak real Quebec French from them. Just talk with them a lot. They'll enjoy speaking the old language and you'll learn it the right way.
Welcome in advance! :)
Maine should be part of Canada.
@@ericnicholls3955 The rest of Canada (without Quebec) should be part of the United States
Acadian French is different if that's what you learned, I went to Quebec and tried to order a coffee it took them like 15 minutes to understand me
I live in america but visit Montreal every year. I love the Quebecois, don't give up what you are or who you are.
If i spoke Quebecois i would move their in a heartbeat. They value life not work.
Gid Bless you
Value life..... That's why they didn't enlist voluntarily in both World Wars. And its easy to spend other peoples money if you live in Quebec. Ever hear of "Transfer Payments"?
@@TheSteveRobinson quebec should have become a country back in the 90s, we are not canadians, we dont want to speak the canadian language, we dont want canadian wars, we dont vote the same, we dont think the same about most issues, we spend alberta oil money while bitching about this industry. Quebec nationalism will come back as it does every century causing trouble. We will always be a setback for what canadians want by our mere presence in the confederation.
@@zachariedube1796 I do respect your use of English. I studied French for 6 years, never really had the chance to use it and forgot 90% of it. If you truly feel that way, why are you here? You have lost all regard for your ancestral home, (except for the language) hate your neighbours, despise English Canada for paying your way for the last 2+ centuries, and vote contrary to realistic Canadians. You do cause us a lot of grief, especially in the last century. Even Albertans of Quebecouis descent are fed up with you. If you decide to stay, great. Let's work out something we both can live with. If you decide to leave, pay your share of the bills and and go to another old French possession.
@@TheSteveRobinson nah i feel like we should just go away from the union i love this land and its french quebec isnt canada, both parties would be better off separated politically with free trade between us. We arent ennemies, but i fear constantly having to deal with each other will lead to exactly that or the secession of the wetern provinces. They shouldnt force you english to study french alberta its multicultural non sense. Its nothing against the english, at the contrary i agree more with with most of the times and i dont see quebec changing anytime soon, we'll sink he ship more than anything else
@@zachariedube1796 I had family in Quebec before the sepratists reared their ugly heads and until that time I thought it was cool that we worked / lived together. Now, I'm just disgusted. English stubborness and Latin temperament... not a good combination at times.
I'm Mexican and I came to Québec in order to improve my French. Merci beaucoup la gang pour parler cette magnifique langue! Vous faites ce pays plus intéressant. Je vous aime!
No ass
Merci pour cet intérêt que tu portes à notre belle province le Québec!😁 Toutefois, le reste du Canada a aussi de magnifiques cultures aussi riches que le Québec. Ces nombreuses cultures sont justement une des forces du Canada. Je t'invite donc à découvrir le reste du Canada si tu en à envie. Tu ne seras pas déçu. 😀
Merci beaucoup aussi pour dire que la langue francaise est tres amusant. Comme un Canadien, bonne chance! Canadien est les gens qui souvent sympatique et gentile. Nous desirons vous aider quand vous avez besoin d'aide de nous.
Te amanos tambien
...because you have a desire to be proficient in medieval French rather than the actual European French?
Quebecers have french blood, you can do nothing against that. They will win. Vive le Quebec libre.
Vive le Québec libre ! If only more people understood that.
@@angrydoodle8919 Vive le White Flag!
Win what S#*$!#, what are you playing for? You already have it all, your Language , your Bills and Canada's money.
@@emery1691 You know you won't win any arguments against those people, yet you're still mean and despicable towards people who did nothing to you.
@@emery1691 Imagine if for centuries, some people decided that they will try everything to force you to speak their language and have their culture. FOR CENTURIES ! You would protect your culture, and Québec did so. Also Québec can make enough money, electricity and food to survive without the rest of Canada, they are independent. Not having Canada’s money will not change anything.
Quebec fought hard for its right to speak french outside of their homes. For quite some time, they were forced to speak english at work because the rich bosses who were all anglophones. This and many other reasons are why we are proud to still speak french here and protect it. Thats why our license plates say Je me souviens, which means : I remember
Yes the French lost the war, and with it their independance, freedom and dignity. Knowing how the Brits treated their enemies (in Nova Scotia for example), they still had the courage to hold on to the little they had left: their culture. Gloire à la Belle Province!
Nous n'avons pas perdu notre dignité sachant que nous étions à 10 000 contre 50 000.
The only reason the British exiled the Acadians in Nova Scotia was because THE ACADIANS, under the leadership of a French military officer from Quebec (De Villiers) staged an attack on British troops going to Fort Edward and who were staying overnight in the village of Grande Pre. That's when Cornwallis ordered the expulsion. Until that time, the Acadians were left to their own devices.
Miserable. Comment. It's noT about war or else, it's about culture and kept the french language in North America because it's like that, they discovered and occupied and build city in there, but it's not about that too. It's like a nazi mentality , can't explain now but if you were quite smarter you would understand it
@@TheSteveRobinson They refused to swear allegiance to the British Crown and therefore could not be trusted.
And they should NEVER give up!, THEY ARE FRENCH, they have NO OBLIGATION to assimilate no other culture. They arrived before the British. Period.
We are not french we are canadiens.
Émile Frenette lol
@Émile Frenette colonisé. We are French.
@@vikare7849 lol Canadien et Québécois pas français
@Jean philipe Nouvelle France : )
As a quebecer, (french language) this is a good video about quebec in english. This is rare to find something goood about qebec in english, good job masaman.
If you speak english your canadien
What do you mean ? I am not a true quebecer because i didn't post on this video in french ? Le français est de loin ma première langue. Vous faites preuve d'une petitesse d'esprit qui m'éloigne des indépendantistes comme vous.
Seb Marion: this is the comment section of an English-language video. It's just normal that people would comment in English.
Martin: un indépendantiste dit une connerie et ça vous éloigne de l'indépendantisme? Eh bien ça ne vous prend pas grand chose!
Et vous avez remarqué à quel point il y a aussi des fédéralistes qui disent des grosses conneries? Est-ce que ça vous éloigne du fédéralisme?
OUI, MAIS LES GENS COMME SEB MARION SONT ÉPOUVANTABLES.
Some important points: Since the Canadian confederation in 1867 got created, French is one of the 2 official languages of Canada. There was and have been many attempts to integrate Canadians. The large majority of French-Canadians (now called Quebecers) can speak very well English and function very well in north America. So this part of your title" (and why they still Refuse to Speak English)" is wrong. They do not refuse to speak English but they refuse to not speak French anymore in their own motherland. They just do not need to change their mother-tongue nor lose their language.
It's hard to generalize about the motives of people. I once lived in Quebec and knew many people there (francais) who refused to speak english because it was a foreign language to them while others who understood english refused because they resented the anglos. There was no rule for everyone. Personally I loved hearing the french language all around me. Even though it is a second language, I learned quebec 'franglais' in lower grades in a catholic school in new england. Quebec french has a pleasant vibrancy that is hard to reproduce in english. I hope it never goes away.
Julien Mazloum ah you must be Arabic. The more languages that one has the better they are. My husband is a Lebanese Christian Maronite and when he came to Canada he had the Parisian French and learned English through me and the television. If one wants to learn they can. One has to have an open mind and the ability to learn.
@@TheJules1003 Yes, I am Lebanese too. I agree with you that we can learn language. Where I disagree with the statement of the video is that it is not that Quebecers do not want to learn English, it is that they do not want the existence of French as their mother-tongue language to disappear.
Kifik Julien Mazloum. I know that the French of Québec want to retain their French language and culture and I don't blame them one bit. I am bilingual of English and French. When my Lebanese husband came to Canada he could only speak Arabic and French and he learned English and even after 45 years of marriage he is still learning English. @@jmazloum
I know when I am being cursed at when he uses Arabic. LOL LOL.
Thanks for all the people that are supporting Quebec. It means a lot. Im a french speaker who has travelled a loy in Canada. What I can say is that Quebecera are obligated to be open and the anglophones are really closed up. Not everyone obviously and thanks to all the supporters. Stilll being quebecers in canada feels sad asf. If you’re anglophone, Don’t feel targeted cuz im a quebecer. I like the canadian culture in general. Its simply sad to see all the hate towards people that are doing what you would do their situation and no sympathy at all..
For once a positive portrait of Quebec in English, tired of the negative ones...
Idem.
The French people of Canada have been hurt real bad and my mother who is now deceased went through hell with anglophones and the terrible remarks and she was born in Québec but raised in Ontario. I don't blame the French people of Québec and elsewhere to want to retain their language and culture. Someone wrote the other day about Louisiana would love to join Québec and there is a history that goes back to the late 1700's where the French were massacred by the English and the French had to escape back to France and others went to the US to Louisiana and other parts. JE ME SOUVIENS is on the licence plates of the cars in Québec. These people have to retain their language and culture otherwise they would be a melting pot of the US. I am a Canadian woman 67 years old and I speak, write, and read in both languages fluently and I understand both. I also understand the French of France which is the real French. I don't blame the people of Québec for wanting to keep their French and their ways of living.
Le français de France n'est pas le vrai français. Il y a énormément d'accents en France et dans la vie courrante personne ne parle le français officiel instauré par l'Académie Française.
Gabriel je suis d'accord avec vous avec les différents accents en France et si vous avez écouté le chanson de Mireille Matheieu ou elle parle des différents accents en France et elle vient du sud ou elle a un accent different de Paris. Chaque region en France a son accent. Le neveu de mon mari a vécu en France et il a beaucoup voyage et oui c'est vrai qu'il y a beaucoup des accents. Les canadiens parlent avec un français qui est très ancient et mélanger avec d'autres langues. Chaque pays parle avec d'autres accents. Mon mari est un libanais chrétien et dans son pays l'arabe a des différents accents dans chaque region. Hier on a entendu une femme parlé en arabe avec quelqu'un sur le telephone et mon mari m'avait dis en sortant que c'est un autre dialect de la langue arabe et il ne savait pas de quell pays car chaque pays a son accent. Il y a quelques mots qui sont pareilles ou semblable et d'autres sont complètement different. Un des médecins de ma fille est égyptienne et elle nous a racontée qu'elle voulait faire un compliment à une femme libanaise et au lieu d'être un compliment elle lui a insultée par erreur et depuis ce temps elle utilise l'anglais avec les libanais.
Metropolitan French was introduced in France much later : it's not "the real" French.
The real French is kind of a barbaric similar to what the people of Québec use but different as well. If we listened or read the old French texts as well as the old English texts we would scratch our heads wondering what all that is about. There is no comprehension at all to be made from the old French and even the French spoken in Québec and Louisianna is still better understood than the ancient French and ancient English.@@doswheelsouges359
@@TheJules1003
French spoken in Quebec isn't "barbaric". New-France was colonized before the French revolution and the establishment of spoken metropolitan French. Those colonists brought with them their regional dialects. The language was later influenced by the French spoken by the King's daughters, the "bourgeois" French instated by the king in France to kinda normalize exchanges in all layers of life. Of course languages today are very different than what was spoken in the middle ages : this goes without saying and is unproductive to the matter since it's so obvious.
J'adore le coulor de drapeau de Qubec, J'aim bien de visiter au Qubec ...Salutation du Sri Lanka..
love the effort you make for french writing...let me write it the proper way for you...
-j'adore la couleur du drapeau du Québec. J'aimerais bien visiter le Québec
Salutation du Sri Lanka.
...thank you love people who make an effort in it...i know french is kind of difficult to learn...
@Antoine Gauthier ...?
@Antoine Gauthier ..a oui...et moi j'ai seulement voulu lui montrer la bonne façon de le faire tout en appréciant l'effort...mais tu as raison...le reste du canada ...bah...je vais rien dire...hihihi...j'ai pas envie de dire un truc...et que ce soit mal interprété...et relancer une crise !!
@ForTheWin clairement
Never understood a word of it can you speak English please 😂😂😂
Vive la culture Quebecoise ! This is the only thing I can write in french, I love you Quebecers ! 😊
Near c’est un bon début et c’est beaucoup mieux que tout les haineux ici...☺️
knowing something is better than nothing...and its in french...so ...great !
They have the best gay porn start too!
@@davidcampbell1899 Your point being?? Oh, I guess you don't have one. Are you actually trying to insult a nation's own culture using homophobia based on your own racist mind because of your fears of linguistic differences? How does it feel to be the only monolingual in the room? Does your superiority complex takes a beating?
Viva france Viva españa viva quebec
The British originally allowed them to continue using French so they wouldn't collude with the Americans against them.
Bobby Bermudez the british didn't allow shit! When France ceeded Canada to the british it was clearly hightlighted in the treaty that the population will have freedom of language and religion, the acadian were expell because they refused to submit to the british crown, no because they were french
After the Treaty of Paris in 1763, the Royal Proclamation reduced the territory of the Province of Quebec to the St. Lawrence Valley. It was forbidden to any British subject to settle west of the Appalachians. It was not really to appease the Natives who were mostly French allies. The British government knew that the Americans wanted more lands. They thought that it would force them to move North instead of West, and that it would help to anglicize the Province of Quebec.
It did not stop there. Catholicism was tolerated, but not accepted. They closed the Jesuit College in Quebec City (no superior education in French until the foundation of Laval University in 1852). They refused to accept the nomination of a new bishop (which means no new priests). They imposed the Test Oath, so that only people who abjurated their catholic faith could get to public office. They also had to speak English. They refused to recognize the seigneurial system, which was an attack to the Canadian elite.
But it didn't work. The Americans didn't want to settle in cold, French and catholic Quebec. Worst, the Royal Proclamation exacerbated the conflict between the American colonials and the British motherland. The Governor of Quebec, Guy Carleton, Lord Dorchester, being a practical man, arrived at the conclusion that Quebec would remain French afterall, and that the British government should make friends with the local elites, i.e. the catholic clergy and the canadian nobility, if it wanted to keep the territory during the upcoming conflict with the 13 colonies. In 1774, the Quebec Act recognized the catholic faith and the nomination of bishops, abolished the Test Oath, accepted French civil law in the territory, therefore accepting the seigneurial system, and extended the territory of the Province of Quebec to the whole bassin of the Great Lakes. And that one of the reason why Quebec still speaks French, is mostly catholic and has different civil laws than the rest of Canada.
Not an act of kindness (the Acadians learned the hard way how "kind" the Brits could be), but of strict pragmatism. They returned to a harder stance when all those Loyalists started pouring in...
preach
So... how would you go about stopping a population speaking their own language anyways especially if you don’t out number them?
What you say is partly true... the brits needed to pacify the population so they would not rebel. There was multiple plans to supress the french population « naturally » and drown them out.
Xerxes2005 Thanks for providing historical facts, our history is so unknown to Canadians. Hell even most Quebekers don't know it these days.
"Qwebec" is the proper way to mis-pronouce it.
Both native nations and french speakers call it Kebec (writen Quebec).
... Also, the Metis are a different (officially recognised) nation in Canada.
Makes me cringe, every time I hear “Qwebec”... >.>
I just hope the French language doesn't die, like the way it died in the US
It never will bro ;)
Still spoken in Louisiana
Funny that you say that. When the French themselves are trying to kill other old languages of France like Occitan and Corsican. There is even a Wiki on it lol:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vergonha
immediamal he's actually right even walloon is dying in Belgium because we enforce more french intead
crazyciler50 It's more of a difference of dialect Vs language, waloon can't be used to communicate with many people whereas french can, and young people aren't learning waloon (how you gonna teach waloon? There aren't many books or movies or anything else, you need to find someone who speaks it to learn it)
Was going through the comments on another video about French Canadians and felt exasperated and angry at how mean some of the comments were towards people from Quebec. For instance, some people wrote "I'm Canadian and even us we hate people from Quebec..." and other stuff like that. So, this comment section is the complete opposite and so encouraging and uplifting to read because you guys are sharing how much you appreciate us, French Canadians, and how much you agree that we should keep protecting our language. I just want to point out the fact that we 100% take pride in the fact that we speak French, but also more importantly in the fact that most of us are bilingual or at least functional in English. We can say the same for English speaking families who value the importance of speaking French. Culturally wise, bilingualism (or 3 or more languages) is an enormous wealth!
Totally random, but I love how le français québécois sounds! Salutations de l'Italie!
Bonjour!! Love how italian sounds :)
My French Canadian mother who is now deceased learned basic Italian from an Italian lady who could not speak English nor French. You would have roared with laughter how mom wanted to learn and the Italian lady was a senior citizen and both learned a lot from one another by going after everything in the house to know the words. I miss mom very much and I miss those days and the Italian family that once lived on our street.
@@Nillilininja Grazie! :)
@@TheJules1003 thank you for sharing this story, that's really cute!
@@EnvyAndrogyny I love Québec and I love the people of Québec and all we talk about when we want to visit somewhere is Québec. The other province is New Brunswick. The Acadian people are also well remembered and don't forget that many parished with their lives by the British and many escaped back to France and many went to the US and the US in the area of Québec and New Brunswick share a history along with La Louisianne. The people of Québec and New Brunswick share quite a history and a great deal to be mighty proud of. When I leave my mail I am going to look up our former superintendant of my building who lives in Moncton N.B. There is no place like home and they went home and are home and are French Canadians.
Im bilingual from quebec but my first language is english ,i always order or speak french first in public situations .What i dont understand is why in quebec some english people born and raised here do not understand one word of french it just doesnt make any sense .
It's called "superiority complex".
ils comprennent cela est du raciste., c,est tout.
...and living in the bubble, they're missing out on everything. If they ever wasted time in Trawna, they'd know!
The older generations that grew up in English schools were not given the most extensive education in French until the late 60s when immersion was introduced (actually, the French didn't get the best English either), and that wasn't even available in most schools. Plus, many of those areas they grew up in would not have had enough French around them to be exposed to. Some, but not enough. And that's how you really learn a language imo. Things have changed, but it couldn't have happened overnight. Even downtown was divided. Until the 80s, the anglos went to Cresent st., and the francos went to St.Denis. So, unless some people have recently moved to Quebec from elsewhere in North America, most of the younger Anglo generations who are native to Quebec speak French. Plus, you need it for just about every single job.
Je connais du monde qui sont jamais sorti de West Island et qui connaissent pas c'est quoi Les Francopholies. C'est juste ridicule. J'ai déjà vu du monde surpris de voir des chevaux sur la Rive-Sud parce qu'il avait littéralement JAMAIS quitté l'île et Montréal de sa vie. Genre wtf??
Can you make a video on the evolution of English Canadians (and why they still refuse to speak french) ?
@@TheJules1003 @jacob lamontagne this is the reason the rest of canada laughs and you guys and shuns you and are the butt of every joke.
they dont have to...you cant push someone to speak a language that will not serves him-hers...we in quebec understand that...we dont push english speaking people to speak freanch...of course...those english people who make the effort to say words in french...is just what it need to make a friendship...little respect...we dont ask to much...
They don't. Where on earth did you get the idea they do?
TheJules1003 bro... not all fucking anglos are “pig headed.” this is why quebec has such a bad rep. me personally, i would love to learn french, it’s a beautiful language. but people like you are the reason why it still leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
TheJules1003 calme toi tu salis notre image c’est pas en insultant ceux qui sont majoritaire qu’on gardera notre langue.
Our language, culture and identity are one. This is who we are. You can't change it. Québécois!
@Leo Proctor Jean Charest voted YES in the 1980 referendum
Bleh bleh bleh
Vive le Québec libre!!!!!
I don't think anyone in Canada expects you to be anglophone, and i frankly like french Canada and like how we share a history, i like how Quebec has its own culture while also adopting a few English customs. But god damn your Canadiens and your second language should be English, not dominated by Arabic. I live in British Columbia and i can speak French perfectly but comn you guys.
@@jeffreykaufmann2867 No one trust Jean Charest in Quebec.
Maybe it's you people who refuse to speak French?
In Canada, you speak english ! If you want to speak french, go to france !
Nope, Oh ignorant one, in Canada you ALSO Speak french, it's a very official language spoken in Quebec, in Ottawa and a few other places. Try telling people in Montréal to go to France if they want to speak french and see how that goes. Pauvre idiot.
@больше точно Envoie les chier en bon Quebecois y vont capoter!
I learned French from the age of 4 and 5 in kindergarden and all the way through high school and back then it was Grade 13 here in Ontario. Today I am a woman of 67 years old and 68 next month (a senior citizen) and I can speak, read, and write in French and I really struggled to learn the French language and I have it today. Not everyone is capable of learning the French language and many give up trying. I know that it is difficult for others to learn English as well but English is a great deal easier to learn than French. There is nothing easy in life and you have to work at it to accomplish your goals in life.
@baguette est supérieur on pense à toi, et à tout nos amis francos à travers le Canada qui se font assimiler. Même en Louisianne, j'ai vu que l'intérêt pour la langue française était revenu un peu.
Strangely, a lot of English Canadian don't know how useful is French.
-It's the only language (with English) that is spoken in every continent
-while English is good for business, French is very good for the criticism and the reflection sense (something that a lot of people don't have enough)
-it's quite easy to learn for an English speaker because around 50% of the English vocabulary comes from French.
More like 20%
It's very unfair, the federal government's bilingual requirements disproportionately benefits Quebecois. Do you know how hard it is to learn a language when you don't need to use it in daily life?
@@chad9015 It doesn't benefit Québécois in the sense that they make you learn metropolitan French for the sole purpose of discouraging you in trying to learn more. British imperialism at its finest.
@@tortillawrapper5454 The number gets a little weird because some words were added to the English language via French and some shared words in both originate in Latin (or occasionally Greek). Over 50% of English's vocabulary is of Romance origin, with the vast majority being a roughly even split between French and Latin. Given that French is essentially Gaulish (i.e. Celtic)-accented Latin with a dash of Germanic and 2000 years of mileage, vast majority Latin in English has cognates in French.
@@chad9015 My cousins who live nowhere clear to Montreal have expressed the exact same sentiment regarding learning English in school. It's irrelevant to their daily life. The main bilingual regions of the country tend to be eastern Ontario and the western bits of Quebec along with a big of New Brunswick. Everyone else generally tends to function exclusively in either English or French. The idea that most or all Quebecois are bilingual compared to other Canadians is very exaggerated. Quebecois folks are just more inclined to break out their broken high school English to try to communicate when needed with the rest of North America out of sheer pragmatism. Most of them feel the same level of awkward insecurity about using a language they learned in school with no daily use that other Canadians feel about using their high school French.
The real difference is in what dialect they were taught in school. Quebeckers learn Canadian English. Other Canadians almost never learn Canadian French and of course, they are utterly baffled when they encounter casual spoken French that sounds *nothing* like what they learned in class. Most schools in the rest of Canada teach European standard French instead of Canadian French dialects... which is about the same as if Quebecois learned to speak textbook British received pronunciation English and were taught to looked down on casual Canadian English as "mongrel" English. Honestly, the entire way French is taught outside of Quebec is utterly screwed up, reinforcing stereotypes instead of promoting Canada's actual languages.
Asking Quebeckers if they want to integrate into the Anglophone Canadian-US culture of the rest of North-America is a bit like asking the Irish and Scottish people if they want to become British ;3
Yes. And the language barrier adds an order of magnitude more of cultural difference.
I mean British in the sense of "England English", not in the sense of "great britain-ish". :3
British and English are two different overlapping identities. I am English and British as I am from Yorkshire. I have friends who are from Edinburgh so they are Scottish and British. British is the identity of the people of Great Britain, which is made up of England, Scotland and Wales. P
Some people from Northern Ireland as part of the U.K. identify as British due to their heritage from these three countries while other identify as Irish. The Irish from the Republic of Ireland are Irish and have not been part of Britain ever. Although they were part of the U.K. for little over a century up to their independence in 1921.
Internationally people tend to confuse the terms England, Britain, U.K. as well as English and British. They are not the same thing.
+boptillyouflop - The Northern Irish and Scots ARE British.
boptillyouflop the fact you don't mention Wales shows how ignorant you are
En tant que français j'apprécie le fait que les québécois parlent le français. En plus votre accent est superbe. Si seulement nous étions tous aussi fiers de notre culture que vous l'êtes de la votre, la France se porteraient mieux. J'espère pouvoir visiter le Québec un jour. Respect et force à vous amis québécois!
Batou Jesus merci
Merci.
Vous seriez le bienvenu.
𝑴𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒊
A large French speaking part of Canada makes the country a more fascinating place. All Canadians should be proud.
Québec has a right to defend their French. They need too if they want to keep the last French territory in North America.
Don't forget St Pierre et Miquelon
That's true, but the politicians goals are to divide and concur, until they can have their own Country.
We do not refuse to speak English, it is mandatory in Quebec's schools to learn English and school is mandatory till the age of 16 so please change your title it is not right.
@@mike62mcmanus after the "réforme" in like 2008 or so, kindergarden kids are now taught english bases
@@mike62mcmanus If you are Irish, why are you not on our side? British are those who oppressed us and you defend their language? I'm also partly Irish
@@bitchlasagna1777 english is just a language it doesn't mean anything using english does not mean the mother nation of the language has control of you its just a tool you use to your own benefit
11 years of forced French education for me. Tell me again how English was forced on you by law?!
Right next to Quebec is Ontario, and along the border there's quite a few French towns, as well as in northern Ontario. However, French-Ontarians learn English in school at a young age, which makes for almost perfect bilingualism, as the french accent is still genuine and "Quebec-ish", while the English accent is minimal at most.
Don't forget us. On se bas pour le Français aussi, de notre façon. :)
Le Québec supporte toujours les franco-ontariens.
Salut a toi mon frère franco ontarien.
Last time I was this early Canada was owned by France
Jay Williams
There is still a chunk of France just of the coast of Canada today. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Pierre_and_Miquelon
goff0103
The shame of it was that the British & French were not allies to begin with.
goff0103
You're right, we did it again and again and again, Europeans fighting each other was such a waste.
Jay Williams the good ol days
BLACK HAT yeah but no one gives a fuck. (im french, its a singukarity more than anything else)
I can't figure out why the other Canadian provinces don't speak French! Are they xenophobic and renounce the original language of what was spoken prior to their being a Canada? Being from Louisiana I know how the english language and its speakers tend to spread and overwhelm, often with the force of law. Where once French was our language here in Louisiana it has been supplanted by the mass migration of english speakers from the U.S. after the selling of the Louisiana colony by Napoleon.
Restez calme et fier, mes frères au québec et ne parlons que la langue maternelle, française, sinon vos enfants et petits-enfants seront anglophones seulement comme ici en Louisiane.
@@robin-bq1lz Est-ce à dire que les "cous rouges" ne veulent pas arrêter de parler anglais au lieu de leur langue maternelle, le français? C'est vraiment triste de perdre sa culture maternelle et pour quoi?
There are french canadians in other provinces mostly the northern parts with the natives. Like ontario, southern Ontario is English and "multicultural" northern ontario very french, native and/metis with English. Where just not talked about often.
My grandfather(a sympathethic good living silent gen traveler in his days) once was in the outskirts of Vancouver,B.C. on a very frequented road stop equiped with picnic tables & a snackbar. He told me that while he was there a family with two children seemingly of east asian origin, came to him and the father then asked:"I saw from your licence plate that you are quebeccer, can i ask you a question ?" My grandfather responding:"Yes, sure." The east asian supposedly then asked:"What is your problem to you all !?"
they dont have to...but they can...like here we dont have to speak english...be we can
@@robin-bq1lz Hahah! S'pas facile d'être une tête carrée en 2019. Même ils devraient prendre exemple sur nous, car le côté anglais du Canada fait dure à certain endroit. Ils sont entrain de le perdre. Quand ta plus de chance de te faire servirent correctement en mandarin qu'en anglais y'a un méchant problème!
I’m a 16th generation French Canadian my family came to Canada in 1637
I do speak French.
félicitation mon cousin québécois
Heye same..
Interesting.
I'm also a French Canadian as well my St. Pierre family came to Canada in 1664 but I do have ancestors who were here much earlier than that as well. And I also have ancestors who were Caron's as well so we could be distant cousins since I do have Caron's on my family tree. But I am trying to learn French but most of my family does speak French but my parents never introduced the French language to me and my siblings when we settled in the New England states of the United States my parents did have French spoken in their homes when they were growing up but never did past it onto us when we were growing up so we have to learn the language from scratch since my parents only used English when I was growing up travelling from one state to another moving from place to place as a US military brat born abroad over in Japan and living in four US states throughout the United States of America. So when my family did arrive to the New England states of Maine, Connecticut, and Rhode Island they did continue to speak mostly French since it was told to me that my great-great grandparents did mostly spoke in French here in America when they first arrived from Quebec and New Brunswick. Since my St. Pierre family came to New Brunswick from Quebec in the mid-1800s and then into Maine which was where my great grandfather was born in Van Buren, Maine but my cousin told me that he was stubborn enough to wanted his children to be raised Canadian when my grandfather's mother wanted to raise them as American in Maine when she herself was raised Canadian in New Brunswick herself. And her husband my great grandfather was born American in Maine and was raised both American and Canadian himself. Since his father moved my great grandfather from one farm in Maine to another farm in New Brunswick, Canada when he was a child. So my St. Pierre family went back and forth from Maine to New Brunswick, Canada several times from 1851 to 1955 when my grandfather decided to come to Maine and married my grandmother in Maine in 1957 and then he took my father and his family farther south to Rhode Island where they still live till this very day sometime around 1962 or 1963. Which is where my father grew up for the rest of his childhood. Then my dad enlists into the United States Marine Corps in 1979 which started my growing up years moving from one place to another during my entire childhood. As a pure blooded French Canadian moving from Japan to almost all over the United States of America so far.
Pourquoi?
im from quebec, i speak both french and english fluently. Thing is they gotta learn that doesn't matter if it's only one province that speaks french, it should still be respected. The amount of disrespect i get for being from quebec is crazy.
We don't refuse to speak english! A lot of us speak the both language and I speak spanish to. It's good for the brain to have a lot of culture! Try it!
🌲Vous avez préservé vôtre langue, vôtre culture et en plus vous maîtrisez l'anglais. BRAVO. J'ais entendu dire que vôtre accent était le même que celui de LOUIS IV. Celà doit être vrai.
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@@pierrepinson2906 JACQUES DE LINIERS MONTEVIDEO BUENOS AIRES 1806 1807
@@mike62mcmanus VILLA LA ANGOSTURA THE HOUSE OF HITLER LA PATAGONIA A R G E N T I N A
@@danielasterling6936 Quit smoking marijuana
I'm not Canadian, and my mothertongue is neither english nor french, but please "refuse to speak english". You could as well ask why the english speaking Canadians refuse to speak french.
Or why Japanese people don't learn Vietnamese , it's not their fucking language.
@@jamesadams9027 but French is on of the 2 official languages in Canada, why would we speak English if the rest of Canada doesn't speak French?
@@mike62mcmanus taking wikidepia as a source? You obviously never have been to the university
@@mike62mcmanus And what about french canadians in the rest of Canada? My cousin was beaten in Alberta simply because he is from the Quebec. There is no ethnic cleansing in Quebec, we are letting people live their live. We just want to preserve our culture too. Its easy for you to speak against Quebec because you are not endangered and spat on in the rest of Canada
@@mike62mcmanus My cousin did nothing, he just spoke with a french accent. And he was honest to the guys by telling them he was from the Quebec. What I'd like is for the English Canadians not to openly encourage Quebec bashing, as they do.
I spent a month or so in Quebec, found them to be some great people. There was the language thing but we managed to work around it. Great people those french.
Yes the French Canadians are great people and very hospitable.
We aren't french. We are our own nation.
Yikes, don’t call French.
thank you...so spread the words !
As a French-Canadian, no idea why there's such a large amount of dislikes. This video is pretty fair, although word to the wise, it's not so much "refuse to speak English" as "we have a language we want to protect first". The fact I'm talking in English right now proves we don't refuse to speak English.
A lot of the former French explorers who came to Canada way back in the 1500's and later came from Normandie in France. Québec held on to their culture and mom was born in Québec and I went to French schools as a child and older and very proud of that heritage and I wouldn't trade it for the world.
You are by far the most serious and detailed guy creating history- and ethnography based content on youtube. I truly love your chanel and what you are doing, please keep it up!
As an American of Québecois ancestry, I can only say how proud I am that La Belle Provence has retained her language and identity. Nous nous souvenons!
Douglas Shambo II ⚜️
@André Lussier Et salut à toi, André!
@André Lussier No -- Minnesota. Born in Northern New York, near the border with Canada.
Douglas Shambo II At least you are aware of it. So many Americans with french canadian last name dont even know about it. Specially in the northeast. Thank you for honouring your ancestry.
Douglas Shambo II You could’nt say better my friend...we will always remember..nous nous souvenons...!
Le Québec est une société distincte et fière, si on ne peut retenir que ça, je crois que nous aurons compris.
You hate civil rights then. No language should be disallowed by law and it is disgusting that I was forced to speak only French in school for 11 years (enfant de la loi 101)
@@jacques9307 il te manque des éléments pour ta compréhension mon gars !!!
@@jacquespoirier9071 talk to me after your government forces kindergarten to grade 11 in English down your throat by law.
@@jacquespoirier9071call me when the government forces you by law to speak and study in English. Until then, don’t lecture me on the laws that made it illegal for me to speak or study in the language I wanted to in my own city and province.
I'm an English speaking Canadian..and I would go to any length to ensure the protection and promotion of the french language anywhere from coast to coast to coast.!!!!!!
Thanks
So english and frech are not equal languages in Canada? Are canadians not billingual?
English and French are
both official languages . CANADA has both languages in many places . Most motibly on all goods and food packaging. One out of every 3.6 Canadians speak both languages.. Some regions are predominant in one or the other. But each language is still protected and visible in all parts of the country.
@@keithsmith3386 Most English only provinces bilinguism rate is below 9%.
Thank you for giving us a good unbiased and respectful representation. It's a breath of fresh air from all the JJ McCulloughs of this world
Olivier Brassard n’est-ce pas🙂
Oh... they tried to force French Canadians to lose their language. We French speaking Ontarians (Franco-Ontariens) are well aware of this. We all know about Regulation 17 (Règlement 17) and one teacher called Jeanne Lajoie. (You will have to Google these.)
Pembroke, Ontario used to be composed of a high % of French speakers at one time. They are now 6% speaking French as a first language. They will probably disappear in a few years.
The premice of the video is also absurd. We do not "refuse" to speak English. We all know the importance of speaking English. But why can't we also live in French?
@Nicko Ouin
''why they still Refuse to Speak English'' we do not refuse to speak english, we speak it by necessity.
Very informative. I grew up in the Boston area and have visited Quebec province several times. You're right, they are very independent and very proud of their ancestry, as they should be.
I don't refuse to speak English to anybody who is nice to me and can't understand French.
I’m an American. When I went to Québec in 1991, I found that most of the people were like you. Of course I tried as much French as I could, and they were very happy to help with as much English as they could. Overall I was very impressed with the Québécois, and I consider them my friends for life.
And I do my best to speak French! I appreciate those who see I'm trying, but switch to English to avoid me butchering the language. As long as we all try to get along.
@@ethanlamoureux5306 lye your racist with the spanish speakin and french in the US
@@robertcuevas3602 Not sure what you're talking about. I am French-American myself, so definitely not racist against French people! I also am not racist against anybody else. I just don't like people coming to our country and refusing to speak our language. Would you like it if Americans came to your country and refused to speak Spanish, instead insisting that you learn and speak English with them?
I don’t really think Quebec is as European as most people think they are. I’m an American who lives in Quebec now and while yeah, there’s some places like the old town of Quebec City and Old Montreal that are extremely European looking, but those are kind of just areas preserved to look old and European. The vast majority of Quebec is virtually indistinguishable from any other North American city with the exception of seeing and hearing French everywhere. Other than that, it’s really the same. The streets look the same, they have most of the same chain businesses, the food is more or less the same, people have the same general interests, they watch the same sports, listen to the same music... it’s FAR more similar to the rest of the US and Canada, then anywhere in Europe. I feel like people overestimate how different it really is
Support to quebec from Ireland!
@The Morebike it’s a fairly similar situation too, but nowhere near as crazy as the Irish situation got;
@@vikare7849 ye but it would be nice to see a free quebec :)
@@themorebike880 As a partly Irish, partly french canadian I support both. A unified Ireland and a free Québec
Freedom to all people
Total support for the Irish people from Québec
English people who live in Québec refuse to speak French here. Then why would we speak English in a French province? This is where we came from, we have French ancestry.
Then why should English speak French in English provinces?
MsBones1 we never said that
Why should we speak French in Canada if we don't need to or want to.
A lot of people like to consider Canada a "melting pot" of cultures. In reality, it has always been more of a "quilt" of cultures.
Back in the 70s, we in Canada were taught in schools that our country was a "mosaic" and it was the US that was the melting pot
@@JoDee172 You do know that along with recognizing the increasing diversity in Canada, one of the "mosaic" cultural model's purposes was to supplant the "two solitudes" cultural model and intentionally render French Canadians "just another minority" (along with indigenous peoples). That's why it was pushed *really* hard after the events of the early 90s (Oka Crisis, Charlottetown Accord failure, 2nd Referendum). Francophones and natives were a political problem and sidelining them as "just another minority" suited the politicians of the day so the mosaic was really emphasized after that until it kind of became one of these little things Englsh-speaking Canadians love to pull out when doing the "We're different from the US because of X, Y and Z" thing (seriously, that whole "we're not Americans" neurotic thing is so weird to French Canadians).
Despite it claiming to be just the opposite, the mosaic is an assimilationist model in that it undermines the notion of founding peoples and it broadly rejected by French Canadians even today. Everyone is just a little piece of the mosaic and no culture or background is more special. Seriously, most French Canadians think the mosaic is a farce. That's one of the underlying sources of clashes between the feds and Quebec on immigration. Most Quebeckers still subscribe to the melting pot approach, which used to be what English-speaking Canada espoused in the past.
I'm the first person to criticise and even yell at my own francophone people when they shit the bed.. but often.. very often, you get anglophones say thing like "just speak English you simps"... that arrogance is the problem. I speak English, but my language is French. My mother sang to me in French. I sing to my kids in French. It's not an affectation... it's my language... put yourself in my shoes. Just for a second.
I'm french canadian, most of us a bilingual, we grew up flooded with more english tv channels than french. The cultural rift is created by english canada and it's roots that still cling to british monarchy. Funnily enough, when a people abroad want to claim their independance, Canada supports it, but not in its own backyard...
i'm A proud French Canadian even though of different etnicity and background, Quebec has become my home and i love it and would do anything i can to preserve this culture, language and unique sort. I strongly believe that we are stronger Canadians together and have so much more opportunities while coexisting with the English part of Canada. Canada is A greater place having the best of two worlds from what used to be British and French empires. We should cherish it and protect it for our childrens. God bless Canada.
Non. Le français devrait être la seule langue majoritaire au Canada.
Well spoken !
@@Raisonnance. Hélas, fallait pas perdre en 1763...
Finally someone who has some sense to him. Great comment, thank you.
@@Raisonnance. no, that would be awful... (coming from a french Canadian)
I'm french and Québécois are our cousins long live to their culture!
Long live Canadian culture
Sorry bud, they probably don’t look at French people as Québécois. They literally see themselves as apart of their own culture.
Quand il dit que le Québec est rendu plus francais que la france... :/ ... ca va pas ben votre affaire.
Vive la France et vive le Canada français ! 🇫🇷 ⚜️ 🇫🇷 ⚜️ 🇫🇷
Demographia Canada doesn't have a culture.
Thank you for that overall quite objective presentation. Thank you for not falling into demonization/bashing of french canadians holding onto their culture that we are proud of, being proud of our culture can never mean being closed to others.
The French Canadians are the best part of Canada itself. Without the French people of Québec we would be not much different than Americans and that is what makes us all unique so be proud of what you are. The French made our history in Canada as well as part of the US and this is all true.
I love and admire their stubbornness. "Refuse to speak English" - what a rude and chauvinistic statement. Englishmen think the world should bow down in front of them.
so arrogant...
Good luck with that position on a continent with hundreds of millions of English speakers as well as the fact English is the main international language of the world. Oh, yes - you might want to reevaluate your comment "Englishmen think the world should bow down in front of them." as most of those English speakers are not Englishmen.
@@EdinburghFive That's probably what he means: English speakers, not Englishmen. Not hard to get.
Hey @@lmnll2742- I suspect you are right but that does not explain why such a diverse group of people who just happen to speak English but no cultural or historic links would have a British imperial attitude (a stereotype that not Brits love to throw around).
@@EdinburghFive I didn't mean they should not speak English as a foreign language, I appealed to some comments saying they should accept English as a first language. And yes, that imperialistic attitude in anglophones definitely exist (mostly in England and North America).
As usual, Acadia is glossed over in a benevolent way, when in truth, 1/3 fled to the woods, 1/3 were sold as slaves and the remaining third were herded into the church and burnt alive.
An armada of British ships had sailed into Port Royal flying the flags of France.
Je sais tout ca les acadiens ont été massacré..et déporté aux îles malouines ..en Australie aussi.,i et ceux qui se s'ont retrouvé en Louisiane c'est ceux qui s'étaient enfuis.Les anglais préférais les très longs voyages en bateau parce que très peu y survivaient environ 10 sur cent ....encore aujoudhui ont appelle cela un génocide comme celui des amérindiens ou des métis.
Et le plus curieux aujourd’hui ...c'est que c'est repris par un film américain et que l'on indique que ce sont des anglais qui ont été brûlé dans cette église ..,les martyrs sont anglais ,,,,et les méchants peut-etre français ou amérindiens....Curieux non??..comment certain peuple honteux réécrivent l'histoire...
norman duke
What a load of bollocks
why acadian people are mostly eng;ish speaking ?..why so hurt ? why want to share the so patriotic part of quebec french preservation?...you are living in «NB»?..so this is bilingual territorie...who are english speaking and spare some french for appearences...nothing more...we quebecois..are fighting for our rights to be french speaking territorie everyday the sun rise up
Hi Norman Duke - You are way off on the Acadian history. No selling into slavery, no burning people in churches, and no armada of British ships sailing into Port Royal flying flags of France.
I had a wonderful visit in Montreal. As a visitor from the States, I had no problem communicating in the city. Montrealers were helpful and made me feel welcome. I want to come back and visit more of Quebec. Chateau Frontenac in Quebec City is calling to me.
Its called being a tourist in a cosmopolitan city, sure its cool and you feel appreciated... and btw Montrealers are legit trouble makers here, I wish we could just throw them away
Quebec City is very beautiful, I'm sure you will enjoy it. I would recommend learning a few French words though, it makes people happy to see that you are making efforts to communicate with us in our language :)
Bitch Lasagna 1 in Quebec we are not nicer with tourists between and people like you are the real trouble maker
My dad come from Quebec City
You should also go to Saguenay-lac-st-Jean. It’s one of the best place to learn Québec’s culture.
Quebecois french, just like brazilian portuguese, retains old features of the language and a lot of grammatical and lexical differences from european varieties. And because of this, they're seen as broken versions of the language.
Not necessarily broken, just different. These "colonial versions" of the european languages do in fact retain some words and grammatical paterns, that were used centuries ago, but have disappeared from the form spoken in the countries, from where the languages originate.
One funny thing is that brasilian portuguese has considerably more speakers than the one spoken in Portugal itself.
The same argument can be made for Afrikaans (South Africa) & Dutch, Nederlands, perhaps even more so, stemming from centuries of cultural isolation. The spoken street level language by working class people,Quebec, leaves me completely baffled on watching some You tube clips as to what language is being spoken, so thick is the accent.
Aaron: Really? I never knew that. I heard Appalachian dialect retain some Elizabethan era features. Interesting.
+Aaron Herbert, but American and British English are practically 100% intelligible while Brazilian Portuguese with European Portuguese and Québécois french with Metropolitan French are not
kevin da silva gonçalves c'est presque la même situation s'on considère l'espagnol de l'Amérique.
🇪🇬🇬🇷🇪🇸🇫🇷🇲🇹 Very imformative . . i didnt know all this . . Quebec . . I think. I love u . . standing. strong . . refusing to take on the foul way of others . .& being more French than France . . pride . .salut
J.Trudeau is going about apologizing about what Canada has done in the past to natine Americains, Women, transgender, gay etc. But not a word about what french people had to endure, the deportation of the married man leaving the wife and child behind was inhumaine. I'm still waiting for those tear drops rolling down his face while he apoligize...NOPE, we still represent to great of a danger for that, he'll wait a hundred years, and when were are allmost gone, then, we will see those tears of regrets.
Justine Trudeau is a traitor to Québec and to Canada as a whole. In October 2019 I am voting for none other than Mad Max Maxime Bernier who is the PPC (Peoples Party of Canada) and he is from La Beauce in Québec and he is the best of the lot. N'oublie pas Mad Max Maxime Bernier un francophone qui apprend l'anglais.
Trudeau is French. Why would he be the one to apologize? He could apologize for his father’s actions towards Quebec, but it would be more appropriate for a British descended PM to make an apology.
@@spelunk8 What is the difference between English, French or any other. Every race and language has done good and bad in past years and the past is the past so bury it. I had enough in my family of English and French at each other's throats and it was horrible to know about this. I wanted a foreign person to be married to and that put an end to this bickering. Trudy is destroying Canada and didn't even want to take Trumps call on NAFTA or anything. Trudy is PM of Canada and has to grow up or ship the hell out and the best for him is to ship the hell out. Trudy behaves like a child and not a grown up. Business is business and friendship is friendship and he doesn't have to like Trump to do business with him. We Canadians have our lives at stake and if Trudy cannot be a mature adult then he should join his young kids at their level and leave the responsibilities to someone who can do the job. I want to see that SOB gone ASAP and it can't come fast enough.
softin - Your comment "...the deportation of the married man leaving the wife and child behind was inhumane.." you are referencing the Acadians. A cruel yet interesting past of Canadian history but you need to get your facts right. The married men were not deported, leaving their wives and children. The men at Grand Pré were initially held captive in the fort, some were then held on the ships in the Minas Basin as there were too many men being guarded in the fort. When all the ships arrived the families were reunited and then deported.
softin nan because then the English gets pissed that he is privileging the French Canadian, so they don't vote for him. Canada politic in a nutshell.
It's not all distrust. I'm an anglophone but whenever an American asks me where they should visit in Canada I always say Québec city. It's the closest thing to Europe on this continent. But it is not Europe either. Most Québécoise would be quick to point out France abandoned them for more profitable Carribean Islands. It's just its own thing. Even separatists have been quoted as 'the problem with Canada is that its not hell'. And it's only becoming a more complicated relationship with globalization of English.
Wolf psychopathe Angryphones en vu....😂😂😘
Wolf is living in some other dimension.
English is doing fine in Quebec and Quebec is probably the only province where this old Canadian dream of "bilingualism" is the most alive.
I would recommend Quebec for vacation time but I would not recommend English Canadians who have left come back here.
Carbunkle surtout pas, et c’est même limite pour les vacances, ont a suffisamment de haineux Angryphones....😘
Nous avons aussi établi d'importantes compagnies telles Holt Renfrew, Henry Morgan's, Birk's, Hydro Québec ....
I am half French Canadian, half English and Irish decent and I love Québec and feel more at home there than I do in my own province of Ontario. The people are good people and I went to a French schools as a child to young adult and I speak, read and write the language fluently. What is happening here in Canada is terrible between English and French. Yes it is the choice of the people of Québec to keep their culture since it can be lost very easily to neglect it. English is a business language and the people of Québec can get by if they have to.
I am not Québécois, Canadian, or even North American (I'm Russian) but I side with Québec with this. I know it's not my right to say what's right and wrong, but try to think from their perspective. They were French for centuries, and then suddenly because of a war they ,,weren't'' they have a right to preserve their culture and language and should only learn English if they want to
Do a little research on the history of Quebec and you will find the British early on after the Conquest instituted laws etc. to help protect French Canadians language and religious rights.
EdinburghFive are. you. fucking. stupid.
EdinburghFive il faut vraiment que tu ailles t’éduquer avant de paraître encore plus profondément et complètement stupide dans tes affirmations d’ignorants de l’histoire....BIBLIOTHÈQUE l’idiot du village.🙄🙄🙄😁😘
@@dvvvvvvv - Well no but we all know the quality of your character.
I refer you to the 1774 Quebec Act for example. If this had not been instituted Quebec would be a radically different place today and I suspect one where French culture and language would be the worse off.
@@robin-bq1lz - Hi again. My education level is certainly not lacking.
I politely question your understanding though. Do you realize that issuing insults is an indicator the insulter is usually lacking in knowledge and understanding.
Moliere's position as a way to deal with people who hurl insults was well said: "A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation."
The divisions between Québec and the ROC goes waaaay beyond language identidy. It's embeded in the economics, the politics, the education system, the health system... of the two 'states', if you will. I.e. In Québec, there's the Code Civil du Québec, a civil code based on the one from France (mainly). In the ROC, there's the Common Laws, based on the one from the UK. The way those two judicial systems are though is *fundamentaly* different, even though there's technicaly a Supreme Court in Canada. I cannot insist enough on the word fundamentaly. I know, cause I work as a urban planner. The way property is seen, for example, is not the same, at all. That's why, for example, a district in Montréal will be planned and built differently than in, say, Vancouver or Toronto.
You can also compare the Assemblée Nationale in Québec and the Senate in Ottawa, completely different from each other. The ROC using cantons and here in "seigneuries". Even in sports, although less these days, there have been long standing divides in baseball and hockey amongst people. Then you have taxation, energy production, alcohol regulation, public transit, even electric vehicles, everything is different from the rest of Canada.
Very true Ben Gagnon. There is the Civil Code in Québec that is very different to any other province. We don't have that same code anywhere else in Canada.
I live in the Eastern Townships. There has never been a segneurial system here. However, the cadastre is the same as the rest of Québec, but not the same as the ROC. That's mainly because of the way property is seen.
It is a time to make quebec 100% english state or expel them out. A buddy of mine told me how qubecers are facilitating caliexit even providing funds. That is a national security threat to America. Perhaps, that is the reason why Trump has used steal & Aluminum as scapegoat to cut ties w/ Canadians. These french fcuks better stop manipulating american politics or their invasion is inevitable.
You said it right Ben Gagnon it has a lot to do with the Civil Codes and they have that in France as well. In France when people go to get married they go to the Civil Code First and then they go to their church. Yes this is all part of it and thank you for pointing this out to the people.
Quebec is like a fine, classy bistro while the rest of Canada is like a Denny's
haha exactly rest of canada don't have a proper culture
Nobody does a drive by on Canada bc they wanna be a Crip though
Donairsauce what do you mean?
@@Sjxhdhd2 I was making a joke about shooting up a Denny’s in order join the Bloods or Crips.
Donairsauce haha
The French came to Canada first.The Anglos came later!
It's not true even if you speak restrictiely about europeans. Taking the first would be either the Basque people and/or the Scandinavians. If you restrict it to those of them who established a permanent presence through blood,institution and/or soil it would be the euskadi(basque) by trade relations and intermingling then in much the same way followed soon after by various french peoples.
Whatever you just said is completely irrelevant to the point that I made.The FRENCH came to Canada before the ENGLISH. That is what I said.
@@emilefrenette9325 love france hate English
No they didn't. The Spanish did. But the natives preceded even the Spanish. Don't get too hung up on the notion that the language to be spoken should be the one 'used first'. The world doesn't work like that. The world evolved.
@@barneyquinn3657 The Spanish were actually quite late in showing up in Canada. The Norse Vikings landed in Canada centuries before Columbus, and a few Portuguese explorers came to the Eastern part of Canada around 1498-1502. They made claims to the territory, but didn't really follow up on them, so the claims were forgotten. The French made the first official claim of the territory by Jacques Cartier in 1534. A settlement was later established at Tadoussac, Quebec in 1600, but it didn't survive. Samuel de Champlain founded a more permanent settlement in 1604 at the Bay of Fundy, between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. The British then entered the picture by gaining Acadia in 1713, and spread from there. Spanish explorers finally appeared on the West coast of Canada in about 1774-1775, scouting for the possible threat of a Russian invasion in California. The Spanish had a settlement for a time in what is now British Columbia from about 1789-1795. (Note the dates I have given). This video and thread is about the French (and the English), whom along with the First Nations, are the ONLY entities who truly made the beginnings of Canada.
I lived in Montreal for 5 years and it was an amazing experience to see how bilingual that city is. I wasn't forced to speak french but I did wanted to understand what was happening with individuals that refused to speak English, it was a very interesting experience to be part of the Canadian culture and adapt to it's 2 official languages. Vive Le Quebec et Vive Le Canada!.
Comme l'a dit un grand Homme : "VIVE LE QUEBEC LIBRE"
Gasconha George Washington était vraiment un grand homme.
En 2018 j'ai lu dans un article que dans 40 ans la population Francophone aura diminuer de 20% au Canada .
Gasconha ; Quebec is not free as long as it’s residents are not free to choose to speak one of their country’s official language, English. It’s deplorable that a Canadian is forbidden to speak English (one of Canada’s OFFICIAL language) in it’s own country.
@@annonymeandfish Ouais d'accord, ton George il aurai rien fait tout seul contre les anglais si le général Lafayette n'avait pas était là...
Degaul?
At 4:05, the word Québécois is a 20 century's invention. In the past our name was Canadiens. After the conquest by Britain our name becoming Canadiens-Français for to be distinguished from the English people who picked our name and translated to Canadians.
Oui exactement comment vous l'avez décris.
They picked our name, our symbol, our patrotic song and even the food that are mostly french-canadian (maple syrup and poutine).
D'un Américain, vive un Québec fier et INDÉPENDANT!
I love you
Bravo! Quand nous aurons notre ethno-état, vous vous joindrez à nous.
@@clementcharlebois - Dream on - Quebec was too afraid to go it alone and now you're talking about an Ethno-state. Quebecois and the Scots don't know what you want.
@@corin164 No, just, No...
H T Thank you brothers, feels good to see americans supporting our freedom after these snakes sabotaged our sovereignty
Very well explained. I'm an Acadian living in Quebec city. I love the English culture and language. You're welcome to entertained me. But I speak French and you're better get used to it ;)
Tabarnak .
taabourwet estie jean cretien!!
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Ciboire
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