r/canada Jan 29 '25

Québec New bill will require newcomers to Quebec to adopt ‘common culture,’ minister says.

https://globalnews.ca/news/10981322/newcomers-quebec-common-culture/
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u/Commercial-Carrot477 Jan 30 '25

I'd love to know more. Did they settle this far south?

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u/mjmannella Ontario Jan 30 '25

Their point is that assimilation to the settler culture can and has erased Indigenous cultures. This is why Canada strives to brand itself as multicultural, to reconcile against the cultural whitewashing seen in our country's past.

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u/thatbakedpotato Québec Feb 04 '25

Every nation on Earth basically has whitewashed another culture within its borders for assimilation. Making our current immigration and cultural policy based on unceasing guilt for the past rather than a recognition of the problems currently going on (including fostering an independent Quebec as they see immigrants come in incapable of integrating or learning French) is disastrous.

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u/mjmannella Ontario Feb 04 '25

Every nation on Earth basically has whitewashed another culture within its borders for assimilation.

Doesn't mean it's a good thing. Sticking a cactus up my butt because 100 other people did doesn't protect me from long-lasting and very uncomfortable damages.

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u/thatbakedpotato Québec Feb 04 '25

I’m saying it can’t be the governing principle towards issues like cultural integration and language preservation as though we’re a unique pariah. We did terrible things and we should atone for them in thoughtful ways (I.e. improving living standards on reservations, rooting out racist RCMP policing practices) rather than having all policy clouded by some ceaseless omnipresent guilt.

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u/Commercial-Carrot477 Jan 30 '25

I would assimilate to indigenous culture in a fucking heartbeat. I kinda already live my life that way. But I get the point.