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You should see Québec.
by Thaxll 5y ago
You should see Québec.
- jandrese 5y agoI was going to say the Canadian government goes to great lengths to insure that their culture doesn't become completely Americanized.
- jedberg 5y agoWell, the provincial government in Quebec. The rest of Canada is pretty Americanized.
- jandrese 5y agoEven the national government has rules like requiring a minimum percentage of the airwaves be devoted to Canadian content.
- jedberg 5y agoSure, but that's because they had to build a coalition government with the MPs from Quebec. :)
- the_lonely_road 5y agoGlobalized not Americanized. Considering all of the Canadians in Hollywood and on the music charts in America how exactly do you define Americanized anyway? Don’t you have a ton of European/Asian originated things in your local culture too like we do down here in America? I love IKEA and drive there in my Japanese car. I cut my fingernails every week with a great set of German tools (Wusthof or something). Tonight we’re going to watch Train to Busan peninsula on Amazon (Korean movie) because I love zombie flicks and heard good things (the first one was good!).
- jedberg 5y agoNo, I mean Americanized. If you dropped someone in Vancouver who had never been, they'd have a hard time figuring out they were in Canada vs the US until they saw a Tim Hortons, because they would be hearing American made music and seeing American made TV while seeing a bunch of American brand stores.
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- hinkley 5y agoEverything’s a little different in Kaybek.
- foofoo55 5y agoSee also Bill C-10, currently making its way through parliament, which is trying to tax online media but also enforce a minimum amount of Canadian content: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/bill-c10-user-generated-content-1.6007192 https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/bill-c10-user-generated-con...
- 908B64B197 5y agoI'm still not sure why there is a need to set a quota for content. Or for the state to subsidize it. Entertainment is a hugely profitable business. Disney and Marvel for instance made billions of dollars of profits year after year for almost a decade. They did it by making content that people want to watch. Why not simply... make content that people want to watch?
- 908B64B197 5y agoQuebec... doesn't do a lot to protect it's culture, from my understanding. Its just that French Canadians buy their own culture.