Just Looking ...

Sorry this blog is a bit late since the lecture on Canadian multiculturalism was at the beginning of the week but like many of you I was busy with the essay. So here we go, in the lecture we touched a sensitive part of Canadian history: the French situation in this English speaking country. Being from Quebec myself, I am always a bit curious to see how the rest of Canada understand the situation. Everytime this subject comes up in a class Im always edgy because I cant stand the people who dont understand the situation or the separatist point of view. Im not here to play a political game and say that spearation is right, Im just saying that often people just dont look at why Quebec want to separate, if it still wants too. So dont get me wrong here please, I already had enough fights about this subject with my girlfriend haha. What I really wanted to point out is that yes in Quebec we learned to see Canada as a two nations country. Why? Well I think it is just because by doing so we keep the French aspect special and make sure that French people keeps on being seen as "founders" of this country. Quebeckers dont want to be seen as just another culture in Canada because they were here a long time ago so they considered that they have some advantages over other "new cultures" that have been here for lesser period of time. Is it right to think that way?? I dont know really Im split when I think about it. I mean everyone probably think that if they were their before they should have something more. Its like standing in line to buy tickets, you dont want to people behind you to get the seats you are supposed to get. Thus, multiculturalism is seen by some as something that can damaged the situation of the French. A majority of French people see themselves as differents from the rest of Canada and the two nations concept give them the assurance that they are. I heard many time that Quebeckers were racists because they wanted to separate. But just think about all the conflict in the world between nations that fight for land or for more rights. When the term nation come into play there is pretty much no chance that a struggle wont be fought. Im sure that using this idea of two nations keeps feeding the fire in Quebec. To me nation implies more that saying you are a minority or an ethnic group because with nation comes the right to the land. Who knows maybe just changing the use of terms during the learning process of the kids can help diffuse the situation or maybe it would make it worse since Quebeckers will think they are losing they special status and the fear of assimilation would come back haunting them haha. Anyway what do you think?