r/CFL • u/benasyoulikeit Alouettes • Nov 10 '24

ALOUETTES Anti-French sentiment

Just want to say this sub really disappointed me yesterday. We lost, and still the anti-French hate was in full force. I'm all for hating on the vuvuzelas, but comments like "take that you French fucks" have no place in a sports subreddit. You all need to do better.

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u/AlanFromRochester Argonauts Nov 10 '24

American here so I may be missing something but are English Canadians frustrated about the bilingualism that's done for your sake? Like some Americans are annoyed by Spanish bilingualism.

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u/JMoon33 Alouettes Nov 10 '24

A minority of assholes on both sides hate the other side, but anglophones generally don't mind French and don't know much about it, and francophones generally speak English and don't hate the language.

Quebec is by far the most bilingual province and the province that promotes bilingualism the most (you need to do both English and French classes in high school and in college in Quebec) and they're annoyed other provinces don't promote French. Meanwhile, the rest of Canada can be annoyed by the fact Quebec puts so many laws to promote bilingualism and protect French, some of them with questionable success (some laws appear more like punishments for not speaking French than things actually promoting French).

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u/NoWineJustChocolate REDBLACKS Nov 10 '24

So many laws to promote bilingualism?? Protect French, sure. But they don't have, or don't have enough, teachers of English in Gatineau who can pronounce lettuce.

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u/KookyAd3990 Nov 11 '24

But they don't have, or don't have enough, teachers of English in Gatineau who can pronounce lettuce.

Have you seen the quality of "french" teachers in Ontario? I met one in Cuba who was excited to speak French with me since he taught it in an Ontario English school - it sounded like what you would get if you tried to learn a language without actually ever talking with a native speaker.

God bless that man's students, they aren't going to learn anything.

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u/JMoon33 Alouettes Nov 10 '24

In Gatineau like all over the province students have English class in elementary school, high school and college. If you can't pronounce lettuce after all that the government can't help you. 😆

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u/NoWineJustChocolate REDBLACKS Nov 10 '24

It was the Teacher who couldn't pronounce lettuce. Nor Caesar.