Talk:Culture of Quebec

message: A few questions. Should francophone be capitalized (Francophone?) When it says North American broadcasts do you mean CBC or do you mean ABC, NBC, CBS and don't want to admit it? And Radio-Canada is a TV station? Just out of curiosity how do you translate New York into French? Rmhermen 15:06, Dec 6, 2003 (UTC)
:(1)When you write Francophone(s) or Anglophone(s) as nouns, it takes a capital letter I believe. I hope I am right. If I am not, then correct me.
::It can be used in either way, but we can use a capital so long as it is used consistently. fvincent 20:18, Dec 8, 2003 (UTC)
(2)Radio-Canada is indeed a TV and Radio station. For some reasons, bureaucrats never bothered changing it to Tele-Canada or something like that.
(3)The major North American broadcasts are of course American, not Canadian. I believe it would be wize to make the distinction between the two just to make sure we do not offend British Canadians. ;-)
(4)In French, New York City would be la ville de New York. In French, we only capitalize the first letter in a title. Other than that, we capitalize names, but not months and weekdays. There are minor differences here and there. -- Mathieugp 17:15, 6 Dec 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: In English, most people that refer to New York, the city, put a capital C on New York City.fvincent 20:18, Dec 8, 2003 (UTC)
Two points. First of all, Radio-Canada did change it's name to Société Radio Canada (SRC), the equivalent of the CBC acronym I guess. Radio-Canada is still used as a name however because I think it is an important part of our culture. Many people still remember when Radio-Canada became the first TV channel, and then the first colour TV channel, in Quebec. But that's unimportant.
Most people in Quebec would refer to New York City plainly as "New York". However, the full and correct translation is "La ville de New York". Hope that clears up. Lg1223 22:23, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Francophone or francophone

message: Just in case you are wondering why User:Angelique popped in out of nowhere to remove the "Voir" weekly as part of the important printed media in Quebec, here is an explanation: During an interview for the Voir weekly for the week of March 1st, Robert Libman, president of the Quebec chapter of the B'nai B'rith in Canada stated that he did not think Yves Michaud was an anti-semite and that his remarks had been distorted. He was interviewed after it was revealed that the report of the B'nai B'rith on anti-semitic indicents in Canada did not include the Yves Michaud affair. The article of the Voir can be read here: B'nai Brith va-t-elle trop loin? (in French). In any case, User:Angelique, because she had never heard of the Voir before, decided that it didn't exist and therefore the comments of Robert Libman were irrelevent. Therefore, the next time you grab a copy of the Voir in the Montreal metro, make sure you visit your psychiatrist right after because you are in fact dreaming the existence of this paper. ;-) -- Mathieugp 16:31, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Just in case you are wondering

message: I have "decommented" some of the items in the article so as to encourage people to start writing on the subject. Mathieugp 16:27, 7 Jan 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Empty Stuff

message: BTW Canada has only 25 million habs,  the USA only got 290 millions...   this makes 315 million people INCLUDING the 7 million ppl living in Quebec as if the didnt spoke english as well!    Far from the 350 millions of english ppl surrounding quebec!   And french speaking ppl are 83% of quebec's population,  makes it less than 13% of english speaking ones,  and about 4% of allophones!
On top of it,  independance projects could be shown as a positive way of enforcing the culture and the views of this nation!
:: You're incorrect. The population of Canada is 32.6 million, the US 300 million, and Quebec 7.6 million. The number of English-speakers in North America is in the 325 million range. G. Csikos 5 August 2007
: You are correct. 290 + (32 - 7.5) != 350. The number should be modified according to the current figures on Demographics of Canada and Demographics of the United States. However, your assertion that Quebec's people also speak English is innacurate. As a first second or third language, English is spoken (to some degree) by about 45% of Quebec's population. 45% - 9% of native Anglophones = 36% of people who speak English as their second or third language. Most people here, like me, speak English because French is not sufficiently promoted as a vehicular language in the workplace. -- Mathieugp 13:34, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed, about 80-83% of people in Quebec speak French at home, with their friends, etc -- it is their functional language. We could say that they "live" in French, since they can listen to French-language radio shows & watch locally made TV shows (some of them being quite good) and go to all-French cinemas (with the latest Hollywood blockbusters dubbed in French, of course -- see the "Cinemas Guzzo" chain for instance!), French-language service in restaurants and stores, all-French roadsigns, and so on. In fact, most people outside the Montreal metropolitan area can live in French all the time, and stubbornly refuse to learn English; it is, surprisingly, quite easy. We could qualify the Quebec province as a "French bubble in a sea of English" (which is the rest of North America). While most "francophone" Québécois can speak at least a few words of English, only 20-30% of them can follow a simple conversation in that language (functional level); truly bilingual people aren't plentiful here. Hugo Dufort 07:12, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

text: A funny thing is that although Québécois speak French, they aren't very interested in the French European culture. They feel more North American. This often leads to false assumptions among Frenchmen and Americans, who think they will find either "Cajuns with fur coats" or "French-speaking cowboys" in Quebec. Sorry... no fried gumbos and no beret-wearing mimes here (although you'll find gourmet burgers with blue cheese, and nice duck rillettes). Hugo Dufort 07:12, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  HEY watch out the ridiculous numbers! 

message: Well, first of all, I'm not sure how the term Franco-American relates to the culture of Quebec.  Second, not all French Canadians who live in the United States (either historically or today) are "known as" Franco-Americans.  I suppose I could go to Culture of Asia and add: "A great proportion of Asians emigrated to the United States between... These people are known as Orientals."   No one could dispute that there are some who call Asians in the United States Orientals, but it is not what they are "known as".  If, as I suspect, Franco-American is the term used in New England for French-Canandians living there, one should make that specific.  Second, that Jack Kerouac is the most famous American of French Canadian ancestry is a POV statement.  Even if he is the most famous one of the so-called Franco-Americans from New England, it is still a POV statement. -Acjelen 13:11, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Québécois immigrated in large numbers to the US and (to a lesser extent) to the Western Canadian provinces between 1880 and 1940. There were a serie of economic crisis in the province; sometimes, entire villages moved south and established themselves in New Hampshire, Maine or Vermont. Up to 1 million Québécois left the province during the crisis of the 1930s. At first that diaspora established thriving communities. However, they were quickly assimilated into the American culture and most of them had lost all of their original culture in less than 3 generations. This part of our province's History has been explored in the TV serie "Les tisserands du pouvoir" (Claude Fournier, 1988). Hugo Dufort 07:24, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Immigration to the United States/Franco-American

message: I disagree with this statement
"many Quebecers agree that at least within North America, New York City is the best place for shopping, theatre, and picking up new trends, while at the same time, New Yorkers say the same thing about Montreal."
As a New Yorker, I have never heard anyone say that about Montréal.  They say that about New York.
 171.159.192.10 20:39, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Foreign influences

message: I believe that instead of "argot" - "slang" would better explain the difficulties that stems from movies being dubbed in France dialogue (at least according to Wikipedia's own articles on the word "argot" which does not seem a good fit for this situation). In addition, I assure you that the majority of French Quebecers understands French as spoken in France perfectly - with the exception of slang - which makes Mario Dumont's unreferenced claim that he and his children understood nothing of Shrek 3 absurd or to the very least exaggerated (he is a politician afterall).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.137.245.209 (talk) 19:04, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hollywood 

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