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Also that Parisians treat them like a backwater colony. That really doesn't sit well with the narrative that Quebec was always an independent people who were only ever under colonial rule after the evil English came along. Oh, and there were never any issues with the natives until the Brits.

Source: my grade school kids' history texts

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Nobody in France is treating Quebec as a backwater colony, not even as a colony. It is all in your head.

Quebec has a very good image in France.

You'd be surprised. Though I think you've misunderstood the parent's comment. THe parent doesn't literally mean that they think of Quebec as a colony.

He means that they look down upon Quebec people, as if they are "ploucs" [from some backwater colony], without their French "sophistication" and accent.

But parisians think that of the whole world, so it's not particulary meaningful.

If you're hurt by parisian attitude, you've failed the "I shouldn't give a fuck" test they're making you pass ;)

It's ironic because Quebecois French might be closer to the pre-Revolutionary King's French than the speech of the sans-culottes.

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220829-the-royal-roots-...

just one example but I did meet a french guy once who said that all Quebeckers were racist backwater hicks who drank moose blood for fun

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