Multiculturalism:Your Opinion

[Revoltingest]

I voted for the 1st option...full blown multi-culturalism...so long as ferriners who move here learn English!

 

[Alceste]

Actually, no. Canada is bilingual, and a Human Rights complaint brought before the UN found that the French only law was a human rights violation:

Charter of the French Language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You shouldn't make guesses about my country when you don't know anything about it. The French-only law is at it's base a way for racism to stay legal. It's not supported in Montreal, which is very multicultural, but the hicks love it. Immigrants want to learn English, and the French Canadian version of hillbillies use this to keep them out of Trois Riviere and Chicoutimi.

Exactly. I crashed a party at my neighbours because I heard them speaking French and wanted to practice. (Use it or lose it). They were all young folks from the countryside and Quebec city, out here for an English immersion course. Their English was awful. Incomprehensible. Much, much worse than my awful French. And that was at the end of the course. I think the French-only culture they grew up in has seriously limited their future career opportunities, and for what? Can't you want your own country and hang a Quebecois flag out your window while speaking more than one language?

 

[Estro Felino]

. Immigrants want to learn English, and the French Canadian version of hillbillies use this to keep them out of Trois Riviere and Chicoutimi.

and these" hillibiliies" (being offensive is useless, honey) are absolutely right. They do the right thing. and if there were justice on this Earth, those immigrants would deserve much worse.

 

[Alceste]

I read an article that stated white people will eventually be non existant. I was like WHAT?
*looks for white german female to breed with*

Who cares?

 

[Alceste]

and these" hillibiliies" (being offensive is useless, honey) are absolutely right. They do the right thing. and if there were justice on this Earth, those immigrants would deserve much worse.

Some of my best friends are hillbillies. How dare you call their culture offensive?

 

[Revoltingest]

I read an article that stated white people will eventually be non existant. I was like WHAT?
*looks for white german female to breed with*

If we're all a blend, the joy of miscegenation will be gone.
And we'll have one less reason to look down on others!

And just for you....

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Who cares?

Whoever manufactures and sells Dockers.

 

[Estro Felino]

Exactly. I crashed a party at my neighbours because I heard them speaking French and wanted to practice. (Use it or lose it). They were all young folks from the countryside and Quebec city, out here for an English immersion course. Their English was awful. Incomprehensible. Much, much worse than my awful French. And that was at the end of the course. I think the French-only culture they grew up in has seriously limited their future career opportunities, and for what? Can't you want your own country and hang a Quebecois flag out your window while speaking more than one language?

At least French has pronunciation rules.
so I think that a English learner is more justified than a French learner

Learning romance languages is very easy. what prevents American people from learning at least one (Spanish, for example) is intellectual laziness

 

[LuisDantas]

At least French has pronunciation rules.
so I think that a English learner is more justified than a French learner

Learning romance languages is very easy. what prevents American people from learning at least one (Spanish, for example) is intellectual laziness

Portuguese is far from easy. And Spanish isn't much better.

 

[Revoltingest]

Learning romance languages is very easy. what prevents American people from learning at least one (Spanish, for example) is intellectual laziness

No, it's the lack of need.
Everyone important speaks English.
So we apply our laziness elsewhere, eg, science & math.
Of course, this varies with locale.
In the southwest, more of us palefaces learn something similar to Spanish.

 

[Vinayaka]

I voted for the 1st option...full blown multi-culturalism...so long as ferriners who move here learn English!

What's the common dialect in your town. What does it resemble?

I worked in a bar where the English speakers couldn't understand English. It was an army town, and we had good English speaking Brits come for 'practice' and half the locals had no idea what they were saying.

 

[Revoltingest]

What's the common dialect in your town. What does it resemble?

Standard midwest broadcast English

I worked in a bar where the English speakers couldn't understand English. It was an army town, and we had good English speaking Brits come for 'practice' and half the locals had no idea what they were saying.

Of course, I'm using "American English", which is referred to as "English".
If'n I want to refer to the heinous prattle of our Cockney would-be-masters
across the pond, I'd say "British".

 

[Estro Felino]

Portuguese is far from easy. And Spanish isn't much better.

At least Spanish and Italian have pronunciation rules.

all right...for an Italian is incredibly easy to learn Spanish. So what?

Ruben Dario wrote:
Seremos entregados a los barbaros fieros?
Tantos millones de hombres hablaremos inglés?
Ya no hay nobles hidalgos ni bravos caballeros?
Callaremos ahora para llorar después?

 

[Vinayaka]

Standard midwest broadcast English

I'm more than a bit disappointed. If you have your own country, you should have your own dialect too. I figures it would be pieces of mumbo jumbo with occasional yells of 'Bacon!" or "Diesel!" interspersed with vague moans ... sort of a Homer attempting intellectual conversation with Willy's accent, but failing miserably.

 

[Revoltingest]

I'm more than a bit disappointed. If you have your own country, you should have your own dialect too. I figures it would be pieces of mumbo jumbo with occasional yells of 'Bacon!" or "Diesel!" interspersed with vague moans ... sort of a Homer attempting intellectual conversation with Willy's accent, but failing miserably.

We do have some shibboleths.
You'll know you're in Revoltingestan if you hear our local banter....
Victory is mine!
Rent is due on the first!
60% cocoa isn't even chocolate...it's just brown!
But it I thought it was clothing-optional day!
I'll take one flitch of bacon.
Woo hoo!
Death to Canuckistan!
Hey, how you do'in?

 

[Vinayaka]

I'll take one flitch of bacon.
Woo hoo!
Death to Canuckistan!
Hey, how you do'in?

You do this? Flitch of bacon custom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Alceste]

At least French has pronunciation rules.
so I think that a English learner is more justified than a French learner

Learning romance languages is very easy. what prevents American people from learning at least one (Spanish, for example) is intellectual laziness

I think it's a bad habit of conflating ignorance with patriotism.

 

[Alceste]

What's the common dialect in your town. What does it resemble?

I worked in a bar where the English speakers couldn't understand English. It was an army town, and we had good English speaking Brits come for 'practice' and half the locals had no idea what they were saying.

Lol - when I was working in the UK, there was a lovely Cornish couple who cleaned our offices to supplement their retirement income. They were very friendly and chatty, and I am certain that in the two years I knew them I never understood a single word they said to me but for the fact they punctuated many of their statements with "my flower".

 

[Alceste]

well...if I were ignorant, I wouldn't speak French and Spanish so fluently.
I am just a defender of the dignity of the romance languages.
Dignity that some people around the world wants to outrage

by the way...it's not patriotism. I am Italian, not French

I think you've gone off the rails a bit here. You made a comment about the roots of monolingualism in America. That's what I was replying to.

 

[Revoltingest]

You do this? Flitch of bacon custom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Aye, but our oath differs slightly....

You shall swear by custom of confession,
That you ne'er made nuptial transgression;
Nor, since you were harried man and wife,
By household brawls, or contentious strife,
Or otherwise at bed or board,
Dissed each other in deed or in word,
Or since the county clerk hath said, Amen,
Wished yourselves unhitched again,
Or in twelvemonth and a day,
Repented in thought any way,
But continue true in thought and desire,
As when youz joined mitts in holy quire.
If to these conditions without all fear,
Of your own accord you will freely swear,
A whole gammon of bacon you shall receive,
And bear it hence with love and good leave:
For this is our custom at Revolitingestan well known,
Tho' the pleasure be ours, the bacon's your own