  Ok, so according to most Americans and Canadians, I (and a lot of other French and English Canadians) am wrong to have been offended by the comments that were made against my culture this week. According to some Americans quoted in articles, We had it coming for years and it's about time we pay for the problems we created in Canada by trying to defend our language .
Also, apparently it was the truth and that's why we can't take it . So if that's the truth, I'm dumb and obnoxious, I can't speak the language of North America, and you can smell my crotch at a 10-meter distance. Aren't you just dying to meet me now? Okay, so we're dumb and we have no right to want to protect the language we've been speaking since this country was founded in Quebec City 400 years ago. If that is so, I won't mention it again... as long as I don't ever hear an American complain about the raise of Spanish speakers in the USA (believe it or not, I've had discussions with Americans who felt threatened because too much people speak Spanish in Connecticut, Florida or California!). Also, I won't mention it again, as long I don't hear another English Canadian say that Canada and America are very different.
Because guess what? That difference stands on the biculturalism of our country. That difference stands on the fact that two cultures can supposedly coexist in one united country. Seems like I will still be able to talk about it for long, long time, eh? Try being a minority of 7 million French people in a continent of 350+ million English people. Try making those people understand that you're no worse than they are and that you just want to be allowed to live according to your own culture, instead of being assimilated by the American culture that seems to want to take over the entire planet. Or at least live in French in the middle of that unavoidable culture. We want to avoid being assimilated like the Cajuns in Louisiana, where the very last generation of French speaking people is dying down there.
Is that so bad? Guess what? I have been a federalist all my life. I never understood why Quebec people wanted to become a separate country. I never felt threatened, because I am open to all the cultures that surround me and I consider that I blend very well in them.
But when I see an idiot puppet, paid by my government to make my country laugh, come in the streets of the oldest modern city of this continent and insult an old man who can't understand and therefore can't defend himself, I stop laughing, and I stop thinking that other cultures are also open to us. Now, I'm starting to believe that maybe we should separate from the rest of this country. And then, Canada will loose its uniqueness, and it will just become another state of the United-States of America. Two other states actually. Because without Quebec, Canada will be the stupidest-looking country on the world map: Pacific ocean, big red chunk, big blue chunk, big red chunk, Atlantic ocean. Or maybe then there can be Canada, Quebec, and Newfoundland? Cuz I'm pretty sure that they're getting tired of being the other scapegoat of Canada.
I guess it's a situation that is more difficult to understand than I ever imagined. Because I thought any Montrealer would be sensitive to this problematic. I thought any Montrealer would understand the uniqueness of our culture and the importance of preserving it, even if they only speak one of the two languages . I thought that any Montrealer would understand that to preserve this, we have to start by changing the rest of the world's opinion of us, making them see that we're not there just to cause trouble. To do that, we don't need to pay foreigners to come and shit on us. There are already people within this very country who can do that anyways.
Maybe I will vote yes at the next referendum, for a change. Maybe next time that I go to a restaurant in Montreal where I am served in English, I will pretend that I don't understand and insist on speaking French. Because hey, it's in my right, in this province, to be served in the language of my choice between French and English. I used to just go along with any language someone would address themselves to me in. You start speaking English? Alright, we'll speak English. You switch to French? French is fine too, let's speak French. I don't mind, I'm comfortable in both. But hey, if it's gonna be like that, I'm just gonna be an ass too and will piss people off. Because what's the point of being nice and getting along with everybody, if you're considered to be the black sheep anyways? Vive le Québec libre! 
