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I'm curious why a poor translation would more strongly affect non-white francophones? Why are the whites minimally/not affected?
by jandrese 5y ago
I'm curious why a poor translation would more strongly affect non-white francophones? Why are the whites minimally/not affected?
- mbg721 5y agoProbably demographics; the white Francophones also speak English.
- jandrese 5y agoDoes "non-white French speaker" actually mean indigenous peoples in this case? Is the actual problem being obscured by confusing labeling?
- mbg721 5y agoMy guess was that it means people from African or Caribbean countries with a pre-existing relationship with the UK but whose first language is an uncommon one and whose second language is French.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> I'm curious why a poor translation would more strongly affect non-white francophones? Canadian French, without assuming translation issues, might conceivably more strongly negatively effect non-White francophones, who may be more likely to be part of immigrant communities from (and natively speak the French of) various non-Canadian nations where French is commonly spoken, like (e.g.) Haiti.
- AdrianB1 5y agoJust an idea: maybe non-white francophones are immigrants from countries with a different dialect of French, so even if they are technically francophones they have a serious gap in understanding québécois. As French has an extra challenge in math by the way numbers are composed (ex: 80 is literally "4 of 20", not "8 tens") that makes decimal calculations a bit harder than in English, it can skew the results to the observed numbers.