RE: Political Correctness and Language
There is, however, one thing that they will fight to the death to protect, and that is their culture. They love their culture. They are proud of their culture. They don't see anything wrong with their culture - and they have a provincial government that is willing to resort to draconian measures in order to promote and protect that culture.
All the people, societies, civilizations and cultures of the world do it. Civilizations can not exist without self-esteem for their culture, their language, their religion, their history. The Arabs are happy with their culture, like the Persians, or the Turks, or the Chinese, etc., etc. The West is the one that is falling apart because some elements want to destroy the culture from within, to this day I still can not understand how Europeans criticize their own culture, it is absurd, the Western civilization from Rome until today, has always been the standard and one of the largest cultural strongholds in the world.
Do not believe that ALL Americans or ALL Europeans hate their culture, that is only a minority, but with enough coverage.
The Chinese have already destroyed all of their cultural heritage in the fury of Mao's "cultural revolution." The 1-billion or so amorphous drones can not even decipher their cultural texts, due to the Western communists' changing the Chinese logographs. The only Chinese live in Taiwan, which island increasingly seems trending towards absorption into the mainland that has jettisoned her cultural heritage. The Chinese are a soon to be extinct people. What a sad end to their history.
The power of communism. We will have to see what happens when PR China invades Taiwan, as it said it would before 2050, then it will be the end of a millenary culture or its resurgence.
The difference is that in Quebec, our government is willing to do some very hard and unpopular things in order to preserve the language and culture - including stomping on the toes of minorities. In the west, there are very few governments willing to do that, or that have widespread support, including in their media, when they do do it. It is a very different world in this little province from other places in Europe and North America. The whole guilt-thing just doesn't work on the average Quebecer.
It is quite true what you say, I think there is a problem in Europe but especially in the United States, the media and politicians want something very different from what people want.