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In response to
"Can you elaborate? (Not sure what you meant by this)"
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ty97
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OK, more. IMO Quebec isn't very well understood either within Canada or outside Canada.
Posted by
Roger More (aka rogermore)
May 29 '17, 11:34
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Canadians outside of Quebec largely see the province as French, socialist, backward, not entrepreneurial, corrupt, and they feel that's all they need to know. Even when Quebec is spoken about positively, it's "the cool part of Canada where they are more European". There's little engagement with Quebec culture - they watch different TV shows, read different newspapers, have different political ideas. (As one example - remember the shooting at the mosque in Quebec City? It took a long time for there to be news coverage in English, because there were no English language media stationed in the city) So there's little real understanding about issues like independence, Quebec's cultural identity, etc
Outside of Canada, Quebec is similarly generalised, just like every Canadian province, or US state, or basically every country in the world. So when it comes to things that people think of as Canadian (mooses, Mounties, Tim Hortons, etc), Many Quebeckers wouldn't want poutine on that list because it's more representative of Quebec than it is all of Canada.
None of this is to say that Quebec society doesn't have hard questions to ask of itself (eg how would an independent Quebec operate, really? Does Quebec represent people from Quebec or all French-Canadians? etc)
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