French guys, speak up ! (Beware burgerlovers, french inside)

[Clark]

Originally Posted by iruinedyourday [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Your skill in French has gone up (2)

[Liia]

Moi j'aime ça la poutine!
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[Calabee]

vive le poisson pourri

[Roublard]

Originally Posted by fastboy21 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

the difference between my american english not being real english and your quebec french not being real french is that i'm proud not to speak authentic british english. i have no desire to ever be thought of, by myself or anybody else, as english.

you might be the exception to the rule, but most Québécois associate themselves culturally with France. and that is what French people (the ones in France) laugh about.

hey, be mad at the French for being snobs...not me (the poor american english speaking slob who gets a kick out of it [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.])

Someone has absolutely no fucking clue what Quebec culture is like. First of all we are also a very proud and nationalist people. Second thing we associate ourselves culturally more with the USA than France. We might be even more Americanized than English speaking Canadians.

You are correct tho, Murrican isn't English , Canadian french isn't France french. As for french people from France laughing about us for looking up to them ...it actually goes both ways. We have an expression for them here that translates to : those damned french men. Laughing at France is something we share with our neighbors from the south.

Btw why don't you try speaking two languages country boy...and don't go all Una cerveza por favor on me because you know the crushing majority of your countrymen do not speak more than 1 language and i bet you dont either since jive or redneck don't count as languages.

[fastboy21]

You okay? you sound hurt.

i did get a good laugh from this though,

Originally Posted by Roublard [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

we associate ourselves culturally more with the USA than France.

good one. ttfn.

[Roublard]

Im doing fine, thanks for asking

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Le yak parle des pommes.

[Erydan Ouragan]

Originally Posted by fastboy21 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You okay? you sound hurt.

i did get a good laugh from this though,



good one. ttfn.

He's right, culturally, we are closer to americans. Politically however, we are much more closer to France. Let me explain.

The rest of Canada voted overwhelmingly to the right, the Conservative Party. Quebec voted mostly NDP, a left party. People whine constantly about high taxes, but we all love our social programs and healthcare and subsidies. Just like France, we will tolerate the high taxation as long as we feel the state will take decent care of us. Yes, things could be improved, but in Quebec and in France, you don't need to take a second mortgage on your house if you have an accident and have no health insurance.

Culturally though, we are a lot more like americans and canadians, in the sense that we are more individualistic than the french. People in here want the american dream: the big house, the car, the swimming pool, the big TV. We are also much less socially conservative. French people almost always use the "vous" when speaking between colleagues at work (that's the formal form for "you") while in Quebec we use "tu" a lot more (the informal form of "you").

Feminism and the liberation of women played a larger role in Quebec, too. Compared to Quebecois men, french guys are often seen as macho. French women are more conservative; in Quebec the gender lines have been blurred a lot more than in France.

I could write a ton more about this, but trust me, we may have the same political inclinations but our culture is a lot more closer to america/canada than it is to france.

[Swish]

Do French Canadians and English speaking Canadians (in the absence of a more fitting term) get along? Is the movement for French Canada to split off as large as I've heard?

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