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[–] Marsupial@quokk.au 5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Imagine calling your fellow countrymen foreigners.

[–] dlpkl@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

That's just a taste of how badly Quebec's nationalists try to create a rift. But they'll be the first to turn around and tell you that Anglos are the problem.

Cambridge dictionary definition of foreign: belonging or connected to a country that is not your own.

[–] force@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

They are foreign though, literally. They are from a different province, plus a very different culture. There isn't much that separates someone from Alberta from someone from Montana or Massachussetts in that case, other than a passport.

[–] Marsupial@quokk.au 1 points 9 months ago

So?

My neighbour is of a different culture than me, yet I don’t think of them as a foreigner.

I could cross the state border and find someone of a different culture in a different state with different laws, they’re still not a foreigner.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

See there's this thing we call "a definition" and that word is appropriate to the situation and if you think "foreigner" is pejorative then you're the one who's got an issue...

[–] Marsupial@quokk.au -5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah totally, it’s not at all a well-known derogatory term used to other people’s.

Honestly if this is how French Canadians act, I totally get the reputation. Sounds like a bunch of downright exclusionary shit cunts.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

"Oh no, French Canadians use words in their second language based on their definition, what a bunch of exclusionary shit cunts!"

You should really go sit down and reflect on the way you just acted.