Xref: utzoo can.general:1804 can.politics:2810 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watcgl!kim From: kim@watsup.waterloo.edu (T. Kim Nguyen) Newsgroups: can.general,can.politics Subject: Re: Nuremberg Laws (Was: Re: STOP Signs) Message-ID:Date: 28 Sep 89 16:57:59 GMT References: <1989Sep6.222038.2707@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> <1178@mannix.iros1.UUCP> <7818@microsoft.UUCP> <1147@zap.UUCP> Sender: daemon@watcgl.waterloo.edu Distribution: can Organization: PAMI Group, U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 54 In-reply-to: fortin@zap.UUCP's message of 27 Sep 89 05:32:20 GMT In article <1147@zap.UUCP> fortin@zap.UUCP (Denis Fortin) writes: In article kim@watsup.waterloo.edu (T. Kim Nguyen) writes: [nasty posting about how I detest fascist Quebec nationalists] Wow! That's pretty heavy stuff, Kim! I guess it doesn't matter too much, because with an attitude like that I'm sure the French-speaking population of Quebec would probably feel better if you can help having anything to do with them for a long long time anyway! And, by the way, I hope that you don't feel too bad if I try to do my best not to go to oblivion! (especially economic oblivion, that wouldn't be too nice to young Olivier) Denis Fortin, | fortin@zap.uucp *sigh* I wrote my nasty posting when I was in a nasty mood. I'd been reading about the (then upcoming) elections in Quebec and I'd had a couple of heated arguments with people about them. I never meant to say that I don't like anyone who happens to be French and from Quebec! After all, *I* *am* a Quebec francophone, and I have many friends who are too! I have to say that none of the people I've had close contact with, at work at CAE or at Logo Computer Systems, or just "around", have had the strong nationalistic "kick the anglos and the immigrants out" attitude. But there is this feeling I get that that attitude is pervasive, yet invisible to me, in Quebec. I hate the feeling that I'm not welcome in my own home province simply because I would like to see English signs on stores (or Chinese signs in Chinatown). I understand the need to preserve own's culture, but why does it have to be at the cost of someone else's culture, someone who's lived in Quebec all his or her life, just as the next French Quebecer. The English have been in Quebec almost as long as the French have; have the English no right to live their own culture there as well?? Other reasons I had for blowing up in my previous posting: I haven't stopped hearing about corrupt and hypocritical politicians from Quebec, not only in regards to their handling of and attitudes on the language debate, but also simply in terms of their greed (see Mayor Jean Dore of Montreal and his nifty little Italian piano, and his decision to turn the Velodrome into an oversized botanical garden at costs of several million $$$, taxpayers' money all of it). This on top of paying higher taxes to finance a overly-socialistic and over-unionized province (although unfortunately Quebec MNAs can offer themselves 10%+ salary increases while they can't pay overworked nurses). Well, that's my beef about Quebec, and that's why it all had a cumulative effect on me when I posted my nasty message. I'm terribly sorry to have offended anyone, especially YOU Denis! My deepest apologies, and I will curb my thoughts, as well as my tongue. -- T. Kim Nguyen kim@watsup.waterloo.{edu|cdn} kim@watsup.uwaterloo.ca {uunet|utzoo|utai|decvax}watmath!watsup!kim Systems Design Engineering -- University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada