How many people in Quebec are like Viper and Grallon?

[garbon]

Regardless: if -using your first post again- langauge isn't a basis for identity then all these people migrating to countries where people speak other langages will gladly and enthousiastically adapt. After all, it's only language. Right?!

Right. What's your point?

I forget Crazy's main language but I think, if we use the Quebec example, he's saying that it is unreasonable for people who speak English to refuse to learn French and live in Quebec. If language is such a small thing, why do they not adapt?

[garbon]

Moreover, I'm curious. What do you base your identity on if language is not a component of it?

Why is there a need to base one's identity in the first place?  Why not just have a stable personality and some basic self-confidence?

I should base my identity in my sexuality?

[crazy canuck]

Moreover, I'm curious. What do you base your identity on if language is not a component of it?

Why is there a need to base one's identity in the first place?  Why not just have a stable personality and some basic self-confidence?

I should base my identity in my sexuality?

Are you saying you dont have a stable personality and some basic self-confidence?

[mongers]

Moreover, I'm curious. What do you base your identity on if language is not a component of it?

Why is there a need to base one's identity in the first place?  Why not just have a stable personality and some basic self-confidence?

I should base my identity in my sexuality?

No, your posting style would be more apposite.   

[garbon]

Moreover, I'm curious. What do you base your identity on if language is not a component of it?

Why is there a need to base one's identity in the first place?  Why not just have a stable personality and some basic self-confidence?

I should base my identity in my sexuality?

Are you saying you dont have a stable personality and some basic self-confidence?

[garbon]

Moreover, I'm curious. What do you base your identity on if language is not a component of it?

Why is there a need to base one's identity in the first place?  Why not just have a stable personality and some basic self-confidence?

I should base my identity in my sexuality?

No, your posting style would be more apposite.   

Pot, kettle?

[garbon]

Btw, I actually had meant to say:

I shouldn't base my identity in my sexuality?

[The Minsky Moment]

Btw, I actually had meant to say:

I shouldn't base my identity in my sexuality?

Do what you want to do.  But if your sense of who you are extends beyond your sexuality, it seems limiting to focus just at that aspect.

[garbon]

[The Brain]

I extend about 13 inches beyond my sexuality.

[The Minsky Moment]

Try exercise and a diet.

[viper37]

sorry. It's not the 19th century anymore. People have figured out how useless nationalism is.

Nonetheless, the majority is never willing to ditch their language for another and will always resist whenever it feels threatened.  Curious, no?  Shouldn't it work both ways?  Otherwise, it is imperialism.  Make the world British and all that

[Maximus]

Sure, using a language you are less than perfectly familiar with is hard. There is a resistance to doing hard things. Nothing curious about that. What is curious is the desire to force a particular language use for purposes other than to facilitate communication.

[Razgovory]

Language is far more trivial than ideas.

And a hell of a lot more trivial than human chattel slavery.

Language is fundamental to some peoples' identity - and identity, its survival, its protection, its continuation - are anything but trivial.  You both express that point of view because your own native language isn't under siege.  By the same token it's been a big fad in France, for many years now, to use all sorts of english words and expressions - they feel secure enough to do so.  See my point?

In any case we will not give up who we are to please foreigners.  And if that makes us racists and tribalists and whatever other slurs you can come up with then so be it. *shrug* 




G.

Under siege from from who?  Haven't you already given up your national identity?  After all, you aren't hardcore Catholic.

[Eddie Teach]

Under siege from from who?  Haven't you already given up your national identity?  After all, you aren't hardcore Catholic.

And you aren't a Baptist.