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Originally Posted by BlackEleven
The arrogance is astonishing. You remind me of Coulter on Canada: "They're lucky we allow them to exist on the same continent".
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I don't really think that this is that arrogant, maybe a little misguided. There are a multitude of empirical cases where a defeated region/state/people have been denied these very things - the Spanish conquest of Central and South America is but one example. Many people have suffered real subjugation and persecution at the hands of conquering/occupying force, which arguably the residents of New France did not. They were allowed to retain their language, religion, customs as well as adopting a different code of law. The overwhelming majority of subjugated peoples are far less fortunate. The Dutch and Spanish bought and sold slaves and the French themselves were particularly brutal in Algeria.
I'll admit that there are many reasons why non-francophone Canadians are not remotely sympathetic to these issues, but the realization that historically, residents of modern-day Quebec, were not subject to the restrictive and sometimes brutal imperial rule of other occupying/conquering states - DESPITE what armchair Quebec 'historians' might say.