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- -leah-0
:D for joe!
- 5timuli0
:)
- 2cent0
"and not to meantion you live in one of the most culturally devoid places in canada. the businesses have totally ruined a beautiful mountain so they can make money. it is full of shallow people.
-leah-(Jan 29 05, 15:29)"
please... tell me something i don't know.
- -leah-0
2cent it's time to let go. breath. i don't care anymore. you are totally right, i am totally right. it doesn't really matter anymore does it? is this conversation solving anythiing? you and i both have said ignorant things, in the heat of the moment. i can let it go now, can you?
- -leah-0
oh yah joe did you know istock photo and critical mass are both calgarian companies? maybe an opportunity when you get here?
- 5timuli0
Knew about Critical Mass but didn't know iStockPhoto were - I'm on that site all the time! Anything's worth a shot though.
Considering starting up my own thing after freelancing for a while too but not sure how my style of work would go down over there. At least we'll have enough cash to live without work for a few months in case it all goes tits up!!!
- benfal990
generalization will kill us all.
for your information:
The majority of Montrealers are French speakers. As with all major North American cities, however, a great number of people have a different first language from the majority. About 18.4% of the population of the Greater Montreal Area are of allophone mother tongue and 13.8% are native anglophone. On the island of Montreal, the percentage of anglophones rises to 18.8% while that of allophones reaches 27.7%. A majority of allophones speak French or English as a second language. A May 2004 survey noted that 53% of the people in Montreal speak both French and English, while 37% speak only French and 7% speak only English.
- benfal990
if you're too lazy to read all my last post
''A May 2004 survey noted that 53% of the people in Montreal speak both French and English, while 37% speak only French and 7% speak only English''
- 5timuli0
IT IS official: the French are a nation of depressed pessimists, wracked with self-doubt and unable to see a positive future.
This gloomy portrait of the current state of Gallic morale - or rather the lack of it - was made public yesterday in a damning report by France’s prefects, the country’s top administrators.
"The French no longer believe in anything," the report said. "That is the reason that the situation is relatively calm, for they believe that it is not even worthwhile expressing their opinions or trying to be heard any more."
The country’s 100 prefects went on to use the words "lifelessness", "resignation", "anxiety" and "pessimism" to describe the attitudes they believe prevail in France today.
The report, which is dated December 2004 but has only just been made public, would appear to be contradicted by the three days of strikes launched by public sector workers this week.
However, analysts point to the fact that disillusionment and apathy are so great that not even France’s formerly powerful unions were able to predict the turnout for the strike. Opinion polls show that 65 per cent of the French support the strikers, leading observers to say that the country is showing its discontent by proxy via the strikers.
"It’s a fact: France and the French are pessimists," said Alain Duhamel, a respected French commentator.
He said: "The French doubt themselves and worry about the future. They do so more than the citizens of neighbouring countries, even when those neighbouring countries are doing less well than we are and have a more negative future ahead.
"France has been anxious about its future, about its way of life, for the last 30 years, ever since the employment crisis and doubts about identity, ever since the absence of clear perspectives and collective projects."
Politicians agree that the French are particularly upset about the drop in their purchasing power, which has led to strong group pessimism even if individual confidence is quite high.
This fear for the country’s economic future is illustrated by the fact that the French are among the most assiduous savers in the world, putting aside an average of 16 per cent of their income.
Pierre Taribo, writing in L’Est Républicain, agreed with Mr Duhamel. He wrote: "One is forced to say that the French no longer believe in very much. Confronted with the reality of an open economy, clearly showing less and less appetite for politics, they are disillusioned and doubt everything from Chirac to the government and the Right, which is accused of every ill, to the Left, which has no projects, and the unions, whose activism no longer inspires a reflex of blind adhesion."
All this gloom could have serious repercussions. Jacques Chirac’s centre-right government fears that widespread pessimism could have a negative effect on the referendum on the European Union constitution scheduled for later this year.
The prefects’ report also warned that it played into the hands of the extreme right-wing National Front party.
- benfal990
5timuli
(Jan 29 05, 15:56)why the hell are you copy-pasting stuff about France in a thread about Canada ??? and you're from UK ?!?!
- -leah-0
5timuli
(Jan 29 05, 15:56)why the hell are you copy-pasting stuff about France in a thread about Canada ??? and you're from UK ?!?!
benfal99
(Jan 29 05, 15:59)cause it's his thread!
- benfal990
well ok... sorry 'bout that but what about the text about France ?
- 5timuli0
Well duh - they may be French Canadians but they're all the same, doesn't matter where they are in the world.
- 5timuli0
Sorry, that was a bit harsh. It's a news story about an official report on how "the French are a nation of depressed pessimists, wracked with self-doubt and unable to see a positive future."
And on the 37% who only speak French - that's one of the things that really gets on my tits. If you're going to live somewhere with a different 1st language at least have the decency to learn some of it.
- benfal990
Well duh - they may be French Canadians but they're all the same, doesn't matter where they are in the world.
5timuli
(Jan 29 05, 16:05)HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
you can't be serious with that one.
Sorry I dont want to be insulting but this is a comment made with pure innocence and no judgment at all. You know ZERO about french-canadian to say something like this. Iam really serious, you're in the abyss with this one.
- benfal990
And on the 37% who only speak French (...) If you're going to live somewhere with a different 1st language at least have the decency to learn some of it.
5timuli
(Jan 29 05, 16:10)Why? the province of Quebec is a french province, Canada have both french and english as official laguage but no english canadian want to learn french (exept some rare case) but many french-canadian want to learn, are learning or speak english.
Thats why many french-canadian from Quebec want the Quebec to become a country. Iam a separatist, the rest of canada is a totally different country for me, they are very americanised and own almost the same culture as the USA, its totally different in Quebec.
- 5timuli0
Never said I did, I'm generalising. But hey - it doesn't matter anyway. By next year the population of Quebec is set to start decreasing rapidly so there'll be none of them left to argue.
A HAW HEE HAW HEE HAW. OUI OUI HAW HEE HAW.
:P
- benfal990
you have to live here (quebec) to understand the complexity and the importance of the subject (separation from canada).
- benfal990
5timuli are you really 29 years old?
evolve dude. you're stuck.
- 5timuli0
"you have to live here (quebec) to understand the complexity and the importance of the subject (separation from canada)."
I don't agree. OK so the politics have their differences but you're forgetting I live in Scotland and we've been debating the same subject and seeking independence from the UK for hundreds of years.
This started off as a light-hearted joke but it's escalated now into something it doesn't need to be.