GOP Primary Megathread!

[Sheilbh]

Depends what you mean by culture.  The bits of France I've been to all feel very distinct.

[Zoupa]

Nobody said anything about "race".  France made a great effort to destroy variant cultures in it's borders.  They were largely successful.

Not really, no.

[Razgovory]

Nobody said anything about "race".  France made a great effort to destroy variant cultures in it's borders.  They were largely successful.

Not really, no.

Oh, how many native speakers of Breton are there?  How many were there a hundred years ago?  What percentage of the Brittany spoke French prior to the French Revolution.  And what is that percent now?  Actually, what is the percent of population of what is now Metropolitan France spoke French prior to the French Revolution?  I've seen the number of around 50% thrown around.

[Zoupa]

Nobody said anything about "race".  France made a great effort to destroy variant cultures in it's borders.  They were largely successful.

Not really, no.

Oh, how many native speakers of Breton are there?  How many were there a hundred years ago?  What percentage of the Brittany spoke French prior to the French Revolution.  And what is that percent now?  Actually, what is the percent of population of what is now Metropolitan France spoke French prior to the French Revolution?  I've seen the number of around 50% thrown around.

Let me repeat, since you chose to argue something I didn't say:

Homogenize language and some core values. Not culture or "race".

[Razgovory]

I never said race, but I think destroying someone's language is a huge part of destroying someone's culture.

[Ideologue]

I think it's okay.

[Eddie Teach]

I think it's okay.

Me too, though it does sound kind of odd coming from a Francophone living in Quebec.

[citizen k]

Homogenize language and some core values. Not culture or "race".

Yeah, language and core values are not cultural.

[Zoupa]

Homogenize language and some core values. Not culture or "race".

Yeah, language and core values are not cultural.

They weren't real languages, just some dialects and patois.

Plus we let them keep their folkloric shit. Good for tourism.

[Zoupa]

I think it's okay.

Me too, though it does sound kind of odd coming from a Francophone living in Quebec.

Canada doesn't have a mission civilisatrice.

Also, french is superioir to english in every way imaginable.

[DGuller]

Also, french is superioir to english in every way imaginable.

I'm not sure I agree.  The French language is saddled with the people who speak it.

[Ideologue]

I think it's okay.

Me too, though it does sound kind of odd coming from a Francophone living in Quebec.

Canada doesn't have a mission civilisatrice.

Also, french is superioir to english in every way imaginable.

Un plus petit vocabulaire?  L'inutilite de genre en francais?

Also, I forget what it is, but isn't there a whole tense that isn't available in French?  Present progressive, je pense?

I mean, it's a fine language.  Silver medal.

[Admiral Yi]

France is not an ethnically based state, both in theory and in practice. The struggles with immigration have a lot more to do with piss-poor urban planning, high unemployement and religious issues in the public sphere. France's mission civilisatrice is universal after all 

Not counting the 15% of racist tards that are present in every western country.

If France is not an ethnically based state then no state is ethnically based.  The French ethnic group was formed by the merger of Gauls with Franks and Burgundians.  French national identity started to emerge during the 100 Years War.

[Admiral Yi]

Also, I forget what it is, but isn't there a whole tense that isn't available in French?  Present progressive, je pense?

WTF does an Indian do when he's speaking French?

[Ideologue]

I don't get it.