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Getting in touch with your roots
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Ehhh qubecois are even easier to trigger than the french
Tell a qubecois they're not real french and it gets hilarious. Took french lessons as an adult and our teacher was from quebec, it got weiiird. At least the flemish have their own thing and don't give a shit.
you magnificent bastard.
Québécois here. I have never understood when people tell me I am not French. I don't understand what you're trying to say.
Of course we're not French, we haven't been for centuries! We share a language and an ancestry.
I think most Québécois would agree with me that your statement is just confusing. You're just stating something like we're not aware of it.
Tabernak!
When I came to france, there were regular errors about my capital, brands etc from my home country (Sweden), which is okay, especially in the pre Internet times. But there were these arrogant people brushing it off like it doesn't matter because it's just some small country or whatever. My line with them was "no problem mate, we all do these kind if errors, like what's the capital of France, Berlin, Paris, Madrid? Who cares!?"
That worked surprisingly well, I'm just baffled no one had a brain aneurysm. Some were so angry.
I remember from my pub roaming days in paris, stumbling upon a depressed US guy next to the opera. He told me that he had recently been promoted by his firm in bumfuck in some flyover state and that it was his first time out of the US.
And for some reason he thought everyone would be in awe of an actual US guy. Someone who actually had a car and electricity! But instead, nobody gave a fuck. So there he was, drowning his illusions in a pint.
By far my most surreal meeting in a bar.
Terminally online Québecois will fucking light their keyboards on fire with friction alone. Absolutely wild over here.
IRL I love the energy though: government proposed a modest increase to tuition so over 100k people protested for days.
Compared to anglo Canadians who just take whatever they get, I appreciate the Québecois.
Quebecois are too close to the US, you guys know what it's like. So I give you that it must be a more common thing to happen to you.
But we on the other hand would never even consider origins like an American.
Not only that but a lot of us hate Americans, and most of us have some chauvinism.