Hey, I'm an English speaker here, I know Quebec's language laws have been... hard on non-Frenchies. Sorry. No need to apologize for bitterness over it, not like I wrote them up. I see where the laws were coming from, and I get why, but they weren't implemented in the most ideal of ways. Preserving culture and ideology are important, and preserving language is the foremost way to protect against the most obvious assault against them, just look at any postmodernist English-speaker from Gender Studies, and you can see how powerful the destruction of language is in destroying a culture, and why it's important to protect it.
Doesn't mean there wasn't people trampled in the process, though, or that their way of doing it accomplished that objective. I get the reasoning, but it doesn't eliminate the externalities.
Hey, I'm an English speaker here, I know Quebec's language laws have been... hard on non-Frenchies. Sorry. No need to apologize for bitterness over it, not like I wrote them up. I see where the laws were coming from, and I get why, but they weren't implemented in the most ideal of ways. Preserving culture and ideology are important, and preserving language is the foremost way to protect against the most obvious assault against them, just look at any postmodernist English-speaker from Gender Studies, and you can see how powerful the destruction of language is in destroying a culture, and why it's important to protect it.
Doesn't mean there wasn't people trampled in the process, though, or that their way of doing it accomplished that objective. I get the reasoning, but it doesn't eliminate the externalities.