Re: THE OLD DAYS (1955)

From: Len McLaughlin <len_at_nospam.com>
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2004 18:25:33 GMT

>From Bidoux's posting we get the following insight into the Quebecois
physic as it was then. Has anything changed? Note the word 'drilled'. Would that be the same as brain washing? It puzzles me as to why would Bidioux be admitting to this? Also that the Quebecois live in 'history' and we live in the 'present'. Ours is the more healthy, is it not? -Len

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Bidoux wrote-
>How Others Have Viewed French Canadians and Quebec
>
>Quebec Now - Chapter 13 : The Minorities
>By Miriam Chapin>

>
>Whereat [sic] the English Canadian with me snaps, "Well, you French do
>pick the damnedest things to get sore at."
>
>It is out of such incidents that some of the illfeeling between English
>and French arises. The French Canadians live in history, drilled to
>remember all that has made them what they are; and alas, every
>grievance. The English Canadians live in the present
>
Received on Sun Feb 08 2004 - 10:25:33 PST