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| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5381 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes  Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 26 of 45 05 March 2010 at 5:09pm | IP Logged | |||||
You can replace "Quebecois" with any other nationality and that statement would still be true. As a Québécois myself, I've been told many a time by English-Canadians to just "go back to France". That still doesn't allow me to claim that English-Canadians are xenophobic. 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5453 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 27 of 45 05 March 2010 at 8:30pm | IP Logged | |||||
Do French-Canadians tell English-Canadians "to go back to England"? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5381 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 28 of 45 05 March 2010 at 8:41pm | IP Logged | |||||
Not that I've ever heard. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Wilco Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6330 days ago 160 posts - 247 votes Speaks: French*, English, Russian | Message 29 of 45 05 March 2010 at 9:28pm | IP Logged | |||||
Neither have I. It sounds absurd to me. They might tell them to "go back to (insert any English Province)", but never to England. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Captain Haddock Diglot Senior Member Japan kanjicabinet.tumblr. Joined 6768 days ago 2282 posts - 2814 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Korean, Ancient Greek | Message 30 of 45 06 March 2010 at 1:45am | IP Logged | |||||
As an anglo-Canadian, I can say that quite a lot of them are xenophobic. When you live out West in an all- English city in particular, it's easy to find people who assume all of Canada ought to be some monocultural society that resembles their own little corner as closely as possible. (And yet, these same people are vigorously opposed to separation, saying things like "we conquered them fair and square".) 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| dagojr Groupie United States Joined 5589 days ago 56 posts - 131 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian | Message 31 of 45 06 March 2010 at 6:20pm | IP Logged | |||||
I know it's only a minor point, but isn't the main language of Belarus Russian and not Belarusian? I know both languages are widely used in the country, but my understanding was that a slightly higher percentage of the population uses Russian. I have a wikipedia source to support this claim. If someone could find a better source, that would be great. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Belarus#Languag es 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5381 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 32 of 45 06 March 2010 at 7:05pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Well, not all Canadians are speakers of English, not all Swiss speak German, not all
Swedes speak Swedish, the Chinese speaks various languages... So I wouldn't consider that tally to be a scientific analysis of the distribution of medals according to language. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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