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Article #1244Re: Silly Argument
From: Vern
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 00:00
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In article <Pine.OSF.3.96.981020132137.28106E-100000@alcor.concordia.ca>, Ariane Lantz <da_lantz@alcor.concordia.ca> wrote: >yes this is a very silly argument, but being new to montreal, i find most >arguments here to be a bit worse than silly. monsieur capitaine, or >whatever his name was raised a good point earlier, about english culture >being more pragmatist and wealth-oriented, while french culture was more >"tender, poetic, and communitarian". On the whole I have to agree and >this is why I moved to montreal from the west coast. but i have to ask, >which french culture? quebec or france? montreal is as bourgeois and as >mindlessly materialistic as is say, ontario or anywhere else in canada for >that matter. having been from coast to coast more than once i have to say >that quebec is certainly more canadian than french. and although i though >montreal would be a good place for someone who is sick of anglo-protestant >north america, i'm beginning to reconsider. Paris is looking better all >the time. It finally happened...this thread has officially become the US-THEM Franco-Anglo debate. This garbage has no business being cross posted to sucj groups as can.aviation.misc. That is an aviation group for christ's sake! Come on folks, lets stick to basic netiquette. As for me, I have officially tossed the whole damn thing into my killfile. Good day and fight the good fight...see where it gets you. VN.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f504b,defc9ea44e6cc9e0 X-Google-Attributes: gidf504b,public X-Google-Thread: 102c8f,defc9ea44e6cc9e0 X-Google-Attributes: gid102c8f,public X-Google-Thread: 100c8e,defc9ea44e6cc9e0 X-Google-Attributes: gid100c8e,public X-Google-Thread: fc51e,defc9ea44e6cc9e0 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc51e,public X-Google-Thread: 100486,defc9ea44e6cc9e0 X-Google-Attributes: gid100486,public X-Google-Thread: 114af9,defc9ea44e6cc9e0 X-Google-Attributes: gid114af9,public From: vern@tiger.net (Vern) Subject: Re: Silly Argument Date: 1998/10/20 Message-ID: <vn6X1.89$Zf5.328134@NewsRead.Toronto.iSTAR.net> X-Deja-AN: 403302468 References: <3628ab6e.8771763@news.sprint.ca> <70bnv7$5gj$1@news.quebectel.com> <36296D90.23B7@axess.com> <70ehq0$ngi$1@news.quebectel.com> <362b1e78.2140586@news.sprint.ca> <70h82p$a8s$1@news.quebectel.com> <z6_W1.3$Zf5.46177@NewsRead.Toronto.iSTAR.net> <362cb3ac.0@news.cadvision.com> <Pine.OSF.3.96.981020132137.28106E-100000@alcor.concordia.ca> X-Trace: NewsRead.Toronto.iSTAR.net 908915291 137.186.209.147 (Tue, 20 Oct 1998 16:28:11 EDT) Organization: . NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 16:28:11 EDT Newsgroups: mtl.general,qc.general,can.general,can.aviation.misc,mcgill.general,concordia.general