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It's almost like they're trying to respect each other's differences ffs (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 weeks ago by garth@sh.itjust.works to c/2northamerican4you@sh.itjust.works

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[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Things are complicated. For some Canadians, the country really sucks because of its history and how it was made. I'm a Francophone old enough to have lived through the last referendum on separation. I remember the dirty tricks.

And based on that previous history, we respect each other so much that to this day, after multiple attempts, we never agreed on a constitution and just pretend everything is fine.

Going back further, the French speaking part was conquered by England and eventually forced into a union where English speakers had more rights.

So "respect each other's differences" is relative.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Solitudes_(Canadian_society)

EDIT: Oh, I forgot to mention this other piece of historical mutual respect.

EDIT2: I must seem angry for things that happened a few hundred years ago but as I mentioned, the constitution is still not fixed. And we should also mention everything shitty both the French and English did tonrhe natives. We do however tolerate and even respect each other through all this because otherwise we would still be in a perpetual state of war. Instead it's "just" political bickering.

[–] GambaKufu@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The first version of this joke I remember learning of came from Scottish comedian Jerry Sadowitz:

"In 1991, Sadowitz was knocked unconscious by an audience member during a performance at the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal, where he mocked French Canadians, starting with the greeting "Hello moosefuckers! I tell you why I hate Canada, half of you speak French, and the other half let them."[27] The rarely quoted follow-up line, which Sadowitz claims is what actually led to him being attacked, was "Why don't you speak Indian? You might as well speak the language of the people you stole the country off of in the first place."[28]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Sadowitz

[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

i wouldn’t be surprised if it’s the last line that got him attacked. quebeckers get very, very angry when you remind them their role in the colonization of canada isn’t one of eternal victimhood to the evil anglos

[–] Bullerfar@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Definitly worse than having a pedophile as president, true that.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

According to actual people from France I have known, it's not even "real" French. The way American English isn't "real" English.

[–] robolemmy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

But according to Les Québécois, their French is the real deal because people from France say horrible things like “le weekend” instead of the proper “fin de semaine.”

[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

How do you say "eh" in French "le eh"?

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Japanese actually has something that functions exactly the same as "eh" as an official part of their language (in the sense that it is taught as part of learning the language, whereas in English it would be more of an informal localized dialect feature). It is pronounced "neh".

Makes me wonder if that's somehow the origin of the Canadian "eh".

[–] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 2 points 2 weeks ago

Sou desune?

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

"Half"

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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[–] stormdelay@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

I choose to believe you typed it from memory