Re: [Epic] History after 1900,s (off topic and long)

From: Tyler Provick <bprovick_at_...>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 13:50:21 -0400

>>I guess the hatred between GB and France has to do with the all the
>>older
>>wars between the two countries. I don't think the French Revolution
>>helped
>>either. GB saw France as King killers and France saw GB as another
>>corrupt
>>monarchy.
>
>I don't really agree with you on this point. We had many wars against
>Germany but there is now no problem with this country, I mean when
>you speak to a French about Germany, he won't be upset, now we see
>Germany as our best ally in Europe, in fact Europe can't be done
>without this country. We consider that France and Germany are the two
>leaders of the European construction with Belgium and Italy. All
>these countries (with Netherlands and Luxembourg) are the founding
>members of Europe after all.
>
>Now, when you speak to a French about Great Britain, you will be
>surprising as he will certainly tell you a lot of bad things about
>it.
>

Probably something happened between the two countries that started this
animosity

>Of course, this is only the general French feeling.
>
>>It even reverberates here in Canada. One of France's old Prime
>>Ministers
>>condoned seperatism, basically saying, yeah, split Canada into
>>pieces.
>
>Ah! This was our "loved" Prime Minister Alain Jupp�, don't worry now
>it's M. Jospin who is Prime Minister.
>He must have thought that the better way to protect French language
>in Quebeck was to make it independant... I don't agree, when I went
>to our "petits cousins" country I saw that they were really capable
>of protecting their language even by staying in the Canadian
>Federation.
>
I can't really agree with that. My mother is a Francophone and because she
was forced into an English school she forgot her native tongue. Not only
that, because she spoke both languages (She re-learned French) and my dad
only spoke English, me and my brother cannot speak french. It seems to me
like the language is being lost.

The style was changing, with French being mandatory in all English schools,
and jobs in Ottawa asking for bilingualism as a nessesity. Now I never hear
the old warnings "You better know French or you won't get a job" people
kinda stopped caring.

I do find it funny that there are more english speaking Francophones then
there seem to be french speaking anglophones.

Tyler
Received on Wed Sep 10 1997 - 17:50:21 UTC