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On 21 Oct 1998 01:31:48 GMT, Navindra Umanee <navindra@cs.mcgill.ca> wrote:
> Robert ASF. <ra_forti@alcor.concordia.ca> wrote:
> > 	Do you really need to call each other names? S. Dube is not a
> > racist. His choice of words is typical of the French Quebecers way of
> > speaking, I used to get made at the way they speak till i got to really
> > know my extended family. They may sound like racists but they are not.
> > They do not have a racist bone in their body!
> 
> Wow weird, are you serious?  

	Yes?

> You should also let "S.Dube'
> se'paratiste, PUR et DUR" speak for himself 

	To defend some one unjustly accused, is not a vise. For him to
defend himself for being called something that IMHO is wrong, it would be
defensive. He needed no hand to defend himself, nor should he but i was
posting to inform others that this is a typical attitude among French
Canadians. It is not a racist position. It is simply the way they speak. 

> and not generalise his
> case to all French Quebecers!  

	Why not? I am a French Quebecer. I live in Quebec and my family
has been here since Champlain dropped by for his first winter vacation... 
	I know my family and friends, as well as the people around the
province. They all talk the same language. It may sound to Anglos, to be a
racist position as the poster deemed it to be. It is not. Simply put, i
know both sides of our two solitudes, instead of letting such myths hurt
our relations, we should be building bridges between the two cultures. S.
Dube should not have to defend himself to an anglo who simply does not
really understand the language. I do not mean that he misunderstood the
words but he missed the intent. And that intent was not to be insulting.

>Anyway, why answer French with English
> when you seem to have no trouble with the French?

	Why not? Both languages are Canadian? Trying not to talk to people
is the heart of the silliness in this province for the 40 years. If i
could write in German to people so they would better understand my post
then i would do so. The language does not matter, only that you are
understood. Your reply indicates that you understood me, so i have
achieved my objectives!
	Read the address, i go to Concordia. I am posting from Concordia
General. Which *is* an anglo institution. I am trying to communicate to
the people in my NG, If i was posting from Uqam.general then i might post
in French. Besides the guy who called racist was an anglo, and to him I
addressed my remarks so that he may clue in that not all French are
racists. They just have a vocabulary that is racist. It does not mean they
hate outsiders, but it does sound that way. For years i would get mad at
my family over their choice of language but when i got over the stubborn
part of myself to ask questions of what they mean, i learned that they
were not being racist but simply showing the limits of their language.

		Just Thought I Should Mention It