How many people in Quebec are like Viper and Grallon?

[Berkut]

  United States had a practice of forced assimilation for all non anglo-saxon ethnic groups until they were made irrelevant.

[Grey Fox]

  United States had a practice of forced assimilation for all non anglo-saxon ethnic groups until they were made irrelevant.

What? He's right. Well, except for the irrevelant part, you guys never achieved that.

[garbon]

  United States had a practice of forced assimilation for all non anglo-saxon ethnic groups until they were made irrelevant.

What? He's right. Well, except for the irrevelant part, you guys never achieved that.

Even if one was to be so generous as to grant his proposition, why is viper so quick to compare his ideas to bigots in Texas and outmoded terrible ideas?

[Admiral Yi]

I was going to say something similar about viper's comment, but then i thought to myself, primary and secondary school are mandatory, and English is generally the primary language of instruction, so...

[Razgovory]

  United States had a practice of forced assimilation for all non anglo-saxon ethnic groups until they were made irrelevant.

What? He's right. Well, except for the irrevelant part, you guys never achieved that.

I wasn't aware my ancestors were forced into assimilation.  Assimilation just sort of happened over several generation.

[dps]

I think you should stay away from comparisons as they clearly aren't your strong suit. Sort of like Marti with analogies.

Israelis want their country to be a Jewish state, whith all that implies.  Their fear is not physical destruction from the Palestinians, it is cultural domination.

I'd say that they fear both, but the threat of physical destruction is the more immediate threat.

[Berkut]

I was going to say something similar about viper's comment, but then i thought to myself, primary and secondary school are mandatory, and English is generally the primary language of instruction, so...

Yeah, it was one of those idiotic comments that of course can be defended on some narrow interpretation that has little to do with what was actually said...

[Razgovory]

To be honest I find the nationalism espoused by grallon and viper to be repulsive, mostly because it's manipulative, two-faced and dishonest.  They demand compliance in the official bilingualism from the their anglophone neighbors but have absolutely no interest in that same bilingualism in Quebec.  This "bilingualism for you, monolingualism for me" seems inherently dishonest.  They seem absolutely paranoid that someone in Anglophone Canada is somewhere being critical of them, yet go on and on about the evil Anglos and their colonial imperialism.  One wonders how Quebec managed to maintain it's French language at all in the face of the the overwhelming tyranny of British rule for over two centuries.

[Zoupa]

We made babies. That's how.

[Ideologue]

Gay pride aims to be a party for gay people and a chance to hookup with hot strangers wearing skimpy outfits.

I didn't realize it was limited to a single event.

It isn't - for one there is a whole pride month. Then you got your different types of subgroup prides like leather pride and bear pride.

At any rate though, we've discussed this before. In the West the only purpose of pride is to have a party.

Can heterosexuals have a party?

[garbon]

Don't know, don't care.

[Eddie Teach]

Can heterosexuals have a party?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight_pride

Doesn't appear to have caught on.

[Razgovory]

We made babies. That's how.

So do most people, yet many, many languages and cultures have vanished.

[The Minsky Moment]

Are Isrealis insecure?  They insist on having their own country where they are the majority.  Once inside the same country with the same laws, I doubt the Palestinian leadership would propose to exterminate all Jews.  Not physically, of course, but given that and identity is simple a stable personality and some basic self-confidence, I don't see the problem.

In an ideal world there could be a single democratic Israelo-Palestinian state where all communities stand on the basis of equality and full political rights, where religion and state are strictly separated and where competition is left to the economic arena.  In reality because of the kind atavistic identity politics that dominate the region, the result would probably look more like Lebanon, at best.

[Grey Fox]

We made babies. That's how.

So do most people, yet many, many languages and cultures have vanished.

We made more. Average in the 1870-1940 is ~10 among French-Canadians.