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And indeed that in my opinion is an issue. People in Quebec are french-speaking or francophone, but calling them "French" is dismissing everybody in Quebec who
by dorfsmay 8y ago
And indeed that in my opinion is an issue.
People in Quebec are french-speaking or francophone, but calling them "French" is dismissing everybody in Quebec who is not of "pure" French descent.
- mieseratte 8y agoThat's a very good point, though I always took "French-Canadian" to mean "French-Speaking Canadian" instead of specifying origin and location, similar to how we have the term "African-American" which is a euphemism for skin-color as opposed to specifying origin and location.