From: todd@juno.elcom.nitech.ac.jp (Todd Law)
Subject: Re: Bilingual posts (was Labelling)
Reply-To: todd@juno.elcom.nitech.ac.jp
Organization: Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya ,Japan.
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Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 00:40:29 GMT


In article <1992Nov14.153434.11757@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> mousseau@paun02.NOHOST.NODOMAIN (Normand Mousseau) writes:

[much deleted]
>However, these exchanges must
>be made as equals not as one culture looking down on the other.

I agree with the "not looking down on each other" part, but
forget the "equals" part.  (*REALITY*FLASH*) How can the majority 
ever be equal to the minority? Elementary mathematics says it ain't so.
This is especially true when that majority is buoyed by mostly
English-speaking America, making the French-speaking population
less than 2% of Canada and the USA together.  Reality says that
French-speakers are a minority in Canada.  Why should one minority
receive a greater status than another? Some will say because the
French were in Canada early on - but to that I say let's make Cree
Indian the second language.  What about Alberta, where French is
the seventh (from my Marketing Management textbook) most common
language?  If the reasoning was based on justice, I could accept
it.  But fact is that the reasoning is based on the considerable
political clout of Quebec, all ideals aside (if ideals mattered
francophones would stand in solidarity with other minorities,
especially the anglophones living as a minority among them in
Quebec).

{Je suis d'accord avec "not looking down on each other" mais il
faut que je rejet le part "equals". (LE REALITE!) Est-ce que la majorite
peut etre egale avec la minorite? Le mathematique elementaire dit que
"non".  C'est especialement vrai quand on considere qu-il existe
les voisins Americans qui sont pour la plupart des anglophones,
que veut dire que les francophones comprise moins que 2% de la
population du Canada et E.U.  Le realite dit que les francophones
sont une minorite au Canada. Pourquoi est-ce que une minorite
doit recu un statu plus important que les autres minorites?
Il y a des personnes qui vont dire que c'est parce-que les
Francais etaient selons les premiere peuples du Canada.  A ca, je
repond qu'il faut faire le langue des Cree autoctonnes le
deuxieme langue du pays.  En suite, il y a l'Alberta ou le
francais est le septieme langue (source: mon texte de Marketing).
Si on va dire que l'idee "equal" vient d'un logique de la justice,
je l'accepterais.  Mais c'est un fait que c'est un logique de
la politique de la pouvoire du Quebec - les ideals a cote.
(Si les ideals veut dire quel que chose, les francophones ont
aurait de la solidarite avec les autres minorites, especialement
les anglophones qui habite selon eux comme une minorite au Quebec.)

[much more deleted]
>This arrogance kills me.

The arrogance on all sides of the issue is killing us all.
{C'est l'arrogance de toutes faces qui est en train de nous tues.}


Todd Law
/* forgive the imperfect French especially wrt genders - my dictionary
   is over 10 000 miles away!						*/

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