What you describe is jealousy. The separatists xenophobes were driven by jealousy. This was the main reason why they formed the FLQ and Bill 101 was born. The people decided to speak English out of their free will. No one forced them or shoved English down their throats. You see how on this board both languages are free to be used. You write to me in French and I write to you in English. This is freedom. Merb is not enforcing any language but Quebec is. Think neutrally and not with your jealousy. This is where you are wrong. Many corporations are American and some Canadian. All of Canada is English except Quebec the natural selection obviously was English. When shareholders and CEOs spoke English and the superpower of the world is the US their language is English. American media is everywhere. Is it any wonder why English is the business language? It made sense for major corporations and their headquarters to operate in English.
But you know what at my current job I DO NOT have the choice to use English. My computer has to be in French, all my reports have to be written in French, all official documents are in French. When I did the First Aid in the Workplace the CNESST document was available in French only... A few years ago they had an English version also but it has been discontinued. Imagine something as important as this as saving lives to Quebec enforcing French is more important. It does not get more pettier then this. Where are my linguistic rights? I got none. As per Quebec law it has to be French. Make no mistake I do it in French because I HAVE to but not by choice. If it were my choice I would have it all in English. That is my right to choose. I value my freedom. I got no problem people conversing with me in French or employees sending me reports in French. I do not enforce English on them. I frequent stripclubs often and I run into strippers often that do not speak English. Guess what I converse with them in French. I too also match them. If everything turns English it is because the citizens decided they preferred English. It is as simple as that. The government has no business deciding for the people.
Stop constantly generalizing personal frustrations into interpretation of political phenomena, to the scale of a whole society.
Like I've mentioned in a previous post, all workplaces have been at involve French speakers systematically switching to English as soon as there's an English speaker in the room, even when it is known that this person understands English.
I do not know what "jealousy" you're talking about in this maniacal paranoid interpretation of events that you have. I've never grown into such jealousy and have never observed it among family, friends, colleagues...
French-speaking Quebecers are, for the vast majority, very sensitive to the importance of English and the necessity of learning it.
Your interpretation of reality clearly stems from a perception of loss status and the lingering trauma of having lived through the emancipation of French Canadians from an era when they were told to speak white and were majoritarily rural and non-educated.
Your one-sided version of History, by which you distort facts and placate your discourse with labels such "fascist", "eradication", "dominance" conveniently ignores a reality that is more subtle and takes its roots in events that involve a people slowly and peacefully rising to a normal participation in its institutions. You're keen to adopt a tone of persecution, yet refuse to acknowledge a past that you certainly seem to have a nostalgia for, and regret so much not seeing extended into the future. The same way there will always be Afrikaans to deny the present and express sorrow at a past they deem was so much better to them, without accounting for the emancipation desire that their privileged situation would inevitably lead to.
Your attitude is not better than the one displayed by these hardcore PQ anti-English narrow minds that you denounce so vehemently, and the psychological mechanisms at play are the same in their case as in yours: distortion of the facts, projection of personal frustrations into the interpretation of political reality, paranoia. This makes your position even more absurd: you are essentially the same as them, and should you be a Quebec francophone, you'd be sharing the politcal views of the hardcore PQ freaks.
Gladly enough, the hardcores like you, on both sides, belong to a past generation and are slowly becoming extinct. Quebecers of my generation and beyond have no complex at all, embrace speaking multiple languages and have had the internet shape their globalist sensitivity. There is no place for "jealousy" with a mindset like this. There is simply no motive for it.
