Right now French and English are the official languages of Canada. There are the English parts (the majority of the country) and the French parts (the biggest being Quebec). But it seems to me that the French-speaking parts punch well above their weight culturally. Because their language insulates them from the strong US cultural influence, giving them space to develop their own unique cultural identity and not have to compete with US media. So it would be a big cultural upgrade if all of Canada spoke French. Plus the French language is cool. Wouldn’t it just be cooler if we all spoke French more?
Q: But how would that work?
A: Good question. Well French immersion is already really common (when English-speaking families sent their kids to French-speaking school). What we need to do is make all schools French immersion, and once we have a generation fluent in French we can begin the process of slowly purging the English language from any sort of government institution. Overtime people will be speaking French so much that it will seep into their private lives and they’ll just speak French at home.
Q: But wouldn’t a policy like this be massively unpopular and cause widespread backlash?
A: Absolutely it would that’s why it’s an unpopular opinion. But in an ideal world, we would do it. 🇨🇦🇫🇷
If anyone wanted to phase out English in favour of some indigenous languages I would be in favour if that too.
Edit for spelling
Another edit: why are you guys downvoting this for disagreeing, you’re supposed to disagree thats the point of this sub
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But the population of China will start to decrease soon if it isn’t already, whereas the population of Africa is booming and will continue to boom for quite some time. And Mandarin is pretty localized to China, without much currency outside the country. In contrast French is an international language used around the world
Edit: or maybe I’m misreading your comment and that was already your point
You don’t need a lot of population, if you do the imperialism game correctly, you can spread your influence very far and wide.
Lets ignore the language part and just talk about the American Media… it’s influence is spread all over the world. And the US military… it’s so dominant that it’s one of the most powerful militaries in the world, if not the most powerful one… and has bases all over the world… being able to invade any small nation as it wishes to… US population isn’t even a lot lol.
(Not that I support imperialism, just sayin’)
I don’t think France can really even do any imperialism these days…
It is the third most populous country in the world, iirc, but I take your point
France can’t. But the French Canadians? There might be untapped potential there
TIL Canada is going to conquer the world