  I'm sorry. I like Americans. I really do. I have a lot of American friends. And I used to like Conan. I thought he was witty and funny.
urlLink Until he came to our country and pooped all over French Canadians . It's like visiting friends in their beautiful house, and pooping all over their bedroom: you don't do that ! If you're American and consider yourself to be one of the luckiest people in the world because you are, think again. French Canadians are. Do you know why? Because we are not just bicultural.
We are tricultural, even more. Being French Canadians, we can (if we decide to open our minds to it) benefit from the best of not one, not two, not even three, but four or even more cultures! Being French Canadian, I get the best of 4+ worlds: French Canadian, English Canadian, American, French (from France) and even more. Any of you can say that, in their record collection, they have albums from French Canadian, English Canadian, American and French artists and that they understand everything that is being said in those songs ? I can. Anyone has ever read books by French Canadian, English Canadian, American and French authors in their original language?
I have. Anyone can say that they feel at home in Quebec, Canada, the USA and France? I can. Whenever you think about saying You're in North America -- learn the language or something to that effect, think about this: up until not so long ago, urlLink most of the American territory belonged to France . Chances are that people used to speak French where you live. Or Spanish.
But because the English were (and still are) louder with their guns, the French in North America died everywhere, except here. Nobody come and tell me to learn the language of North America. First of all, because I already know it. But also because, historically, the language of North America was just about anything but English . And to something like You're in North America -- learn the language , I would reply You're living on a planet called Earth -- learn that Americans don't rule everything The Celine Dion issue, now. You may like her, you may not like her.
That's your choice. I used to hate her. Now, I love her. For the least, you can't not admire a woman like her, who's spent her whole life building her career. Who comes from a little French Canadian town and is now the most famous singer on the planet. You can't admire the fact that she went from singing really badly to having this absolutely amazing voice (because she does... like what she sings or not, you can't deny that).
The woman worked extremely hard, sacrificed a lot of things to live her dream, and she did it using only her voice, not her body . There are many more points that I would like to discuss, but time is lacking this morning. Damn, I'm pissed off. I consider myself to have a very good sense of humour, but really, I don't find this funny. It is extremely weak to go to Toronto and dump on Quebec like that. I'll just comfort myself by thinking the only reason they did this is because they're jealous.
They can't understand what Celine Dion says, and we do. That must be it. But dammit, I wish some Americans would learn that they're not alone on this planet. And I'll never watch Conan again. 
