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'Fed up' with decline of French, Quebec seeks tuition hike for out-of-province students at English universities (montreal.ctvnews.ca)
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The Quebec government is proposing an increase in tuition fees for international and out-of-province students attending English-language universities as a way to protect the French language.

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[–] villasv@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Somehow millions of immigrants are expected to understand and accept this, but Francophones somehow feel special?

Yes, because they didn’t go anywhere[1]. They’re not immigrants[1]. How is that difference not obvious?

It really isn’t.

K, that’s just ignorance at this point.

[1] PS. Obviously they immigrated as colonizers at some point, but the language they’re being assimilated into isn’t First Nations. If it were, that’d would be a different story.

[–] frostbiker@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, because they didn’t go anywhere

Neither did First Nations people, and I don't see the majority of Quebecois speaking any of those languages either. And thank goodness we don't have each municipality speaking their indigenous tongues -- it would be impossible to talk to each other!

So let's all be practical and discuss our differences and our commonalities in a common language, rather than constructing language ghettos around us out of fear.

[–] villasv@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Neither did First Nations people, and I don’t see the majority of Quebecois speaking any of those languages either.

Québécois are not asking First Nations people to forget their language, you are.

[–] frostbiker@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not asking anybody to forget anything. I'm saying that speaking a common language is highly beneficial to communication, and thus should be promoted.

I'm also saying that it is hypocritical for people who expect immigrants to integrate, yet at the same time refuse to integrate themselves. Like it or not, English is the lingua franca since at least WW2, and even more so since the advent of the Internet.

You and I would not even be having this conversation if it wasn't for our ability to speak fluent English.