Les Amis De La Montagne...
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Nuclear replied on Tue May 25, 2010 @ 7:17pm |
 Coolness: 2603930 | Sylvain Menard a FRENCH PREJUDICE RICH BIGOT posted this article in the Metro Newspaper...
Can you possibly put down English people more. And at the end of the article he bashes the music at the mountain. I'd just like him to know that we are all languaged people who come out for the music at the mountain... Stop being a hater Mr. Sylvain Menard... |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Psyborg replied on Tue May 25, 2010 @ 7:22pm |
 Coolness: 105625 | Il devrait faire sa sieste ailleurs la prochaine fois. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» El_Presidente replied on Tue May 25, 2010 @ 7:27pm |
 Coolness: 299270 | Originally Posted By NUCLEAR
Sylvain Menard a FRENCH PREJUDICE RICH BIGOT posted this article in the Metro Newspaper...
Can you possibly put down English people more. And at the end of the article he bashes the music at the mountain. I'd just like him to know that we are all languaged people who come out for the music at the mountain... Stop being a hater Mr. Sylvain Menard... Noah you should learn french. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Nuclear replied on Tue May 25, 2010 @ 7:35pm |
| Coolness: 2603930 | What did I not understand? |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» moebius replied on Tue May 25, 2010 @ 7:49pm |
 Coolness: 70490 | I think this is a misunderstanding !!
j'pense pas que tu soit une anglaise Noha ... |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Scipio replied on Tue May 25, 2010 @ 7:54pm |
 Coolness: 33900 | Noah, there's a full English translation of the article available on this website.
It's not nearly as bad as you think. It's not a serious piece, he was being snide/funny, and he wasn't complaining about all English people. Notice how he mentions "Les Anglaises"? He's specifically referring to a group of English women who live next door to his place. If he wanted to insult all English people, he'd have written "Les Anglais". |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Tue May 25, 2010 @ 7:54pm |
 Coolness: 685535 | It really does sound like he's got a bit of racism going there.. who cares that the people playing soccer are latino? Who cares that the people BBQing are asian? Who cares that the women being loud are anglo?
The whole thing with pointing out the latinos and chinese is like people saying "my best friend is black, so I'm not racist..." and then go on and say some racist bullshit. The whole thing at the start and end of his article have absolutely nothing to do with the body of it, and it really DOES look like he's trying to get a racist word in where it really doesn't belong. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Scipio replied on Tue May 25, 2010 @ 8:16pm |
| Coolness: 33900 | I don't get that vibe from his piece at all. He's describing an afternoon on the Mountain being enjoyed by a melting pot of smiling happy people. He's not insulting any of them, and even his comment about his loud neighbours is lighthearted.
He hightlights how people from different walks of life all enjoy the mountain -- latinos, asians, young people, old people, Francophones and Anglophones. His point is that the Mountain is a jewel that's enjoyed by all Montrealers, and that we all have an interest in keeping it beautiful. The guy definitely has a narrative reason for mentioning race, gender, and age: he's being inclusive, and is implying that we all have a stake in the Mountain's future, regardless of our own personal backgrounds. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Tue May 25, 2010 @ 8:18pm |
| Coolness: 685535 | yeah.. the latinos are playing soccer, the chinese are cooking something that smells great, but fucking loudmouth anglos always ruin shit because all anglos are always loud and can't have fun without being loud, annoying douchebags.
Nope, nothing racist about that. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Rakoon replied on Tue May 25, 2010 @ 8:23pm |
 Coolness: 175385 | I'm disappointed, He didn't talk about hobos and used condoms |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Scipio replied on Tue May 25, 2010 @ 8:27pm |
| Coolness: 33900 | Dude, chill.
The guy was joking. JOKING. He wasn't being critical of ALL English people, under ALL circumstances, at ALL times, forever and ever. He was making a few lighthearted comments about his neighbors. Then, in obvious jest, he said that English women are louder than French women. CALL THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION! Obviously, the guy is a racist devil douchebag from hell because he joked about English women being louder than French women. Let's tie him to a cross and burn him! |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Tue May 25, 2010 @ 8:42pm |
| Coolness: 685535 | Then why did he even bring race/language into it? He could have just said that his neighbors were being annoyingly loud, but no he had to point out that his ANGLO neighbors were being annoyingly loud, and then adds in that ALL anglos are always annoyingly loud when they have fun.
Stereotype much? Hell, latinos playing soccer? Wow, hey that's not a stereotype at all. Asians making awesome food that smells great? Nope, no stereotype there.. Just because they're not negative doesn't take away from the fact that he's peppering racial stereotypes into an article where they absolutely don't belong, just like the rest of the fucking frogs. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» SourUltraFast replied on Tue May 25, 2010 @ 8:45pm |
 Coolness: 91335 | Originally Posted By SCREWHEAD
just like the rest of the fucking frogs. Heille m'as t'péter 'a yeule, osti d'anglais! ;) On est pas raciste, on aime juste pas ce qui trop différent, bon LMAO! |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Nuclear replied on Tue May 25, 2010 @ 8:46pm |
| Coolness: 2603930 | Marc, good to see you're alive :)... |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Scipio replied on Tue May 25, 2010 @ 8:50pm |
| Coolness: 33900 | Hahahaha, reading comprehension obviously isn't one of your strong points.
Suit yourself. The guy was obviously throwing stereotypes around, his first paragraph didn't serve any kind of narrative purpose at all, and he definitely said that all anglos of both gender are always annoyingly loud when they have fun. I mean, you believe it so it must be true. Have a cookie. 
//oi Noah, came down with a nasty bug. I'll probably drop by this week ;-) |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» DynV replied on Tue May 25, 2010 @ 10:14pm |
 Coolness: 108750 | Change the settings to a festival of different subcultures like, Vans Warp tour, then replace the ethnicities with those subcultures like: punks, skinheads, skanker (or whatever the amateurs of that lame music are called), rockabillies, goths (are there even real goths in Montreal?!), ... Would it be discriminatory?
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» recoil replied on Tue May 25, 2010 @ 10:32pm |
 Coolness: 86450 | well.. I really need to learn French too (Quebecois first, and later, when I move over there, the way they speak it in France) - just because I think I should . there's no excuse
however - I really dont like it when people refer to people who speak English in Canada as "the English" or "English people" English refers to a nation and an ethnic group. the only people who are English are some people living in England. People need to read history books a bit more... |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Scipio replied on Tue May 25, 2010 @ 10:35pm |
| Coolness: 33900 | Wikipedia entries for English"> ] Canadian. Update » Scipio wrote on Tue May 25, 2010 @ 11:05pm English-Canadian is the proper nomenclature, and we use English as shorthand for it, especially in Quebec. It's a regional thing, it's common usage here.
Also, 6,500,000 Canadians are ethnically English.. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» qwertyu replied on Tue May 25, 2010 @ 11:48pm |
 Coolness: 72825 | This article isnt racist or else,it isnt that bad, but i think that yes, it could be perceived as being borderline discriminatory to some people. Especially coming from and old french canadian man. I know i woulndt have writen such a article. Some old french canadian people really are taking every opportunitys they have to put down english people and immgrants. This is repulsive.
Recoil : when i say '' english people '' i try to translate '' anglophone '' wich means, people who speak english, i just dont know what's the proper english word for it lol |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» flo replied on Wed May 26, 2010 @ 12:10am |
 Coolness: 146270 | The guy's just writing about how we should preserve our beautiful parks, especially from architectural mistakes. His description of his enjoyment of this Monday afternoon might be a little "categorical", in the sense that he classifies people using stereotypes...
As for the English being loud, it's true, from a stereotypical viewpoint... at least for French people, the cultural difference of voice pitch and volume is obvious! This is just a general observation and doesn't mean "this or that is better"... you could also observe that Anglo people are more easy-going than Francos, which makes Francos look like they're constantly PMS-ing :) |
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