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Saying anglophones built Quebec alongside the francophones sounds a bit like French people saying they built Algeria or Vietnam as a justification for not grant
by seszett 7y ago
Saying anglophones built Quebec alongside the francophones sounds a bit like French people saying they built Algeria or Vietnam as a justification for not granting it independence.
The reality is that the anglophones built Quebec because they were colonizing it, and without them the francophones would have "built Quebec" just as well.
- shkkmo 7y agoThe French started earnestly colonizing Quebec less than 100 years before the British conquest so that analogy does not seem apt at all...
- seszett 7y agoWhat matters is that the inhabitants when Britain invaded were almost all French, and French speaking. It doesn't matter much if their parents had been there for a long time already or not, it was their home and they had founded it.
- shkkmo 7y agoBoth countries invaded, both English and French speaking people built it into what it is today. Arguing about which imperialist culture was there first (especially when the difference is so small historically) to justify attempts to exclude one of those cultures is VERY different than arguing that imperialized regions have a right to independence. There is a vast difference between spreading discrimination/hate and advocating self-determination. In general, I am in favor of the rights of regions to self determination as it is generally better when people are ruled by a government they consent to. I support the right of Hong Kong, Catalonia, Quebec, Scottland and others to succeed if the majority of their inhabitants have a strong and consistent desire to leave. I do not support discriminatory policies or attitudes that are intended to drive certain groups of people away.