POL 2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Quebec Sovereignty Movement, Quebec Nationalism, Charter Of The French Language
20 Oct 2014
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Key term: french canadian nationalism, conquest, patriot rebellion, survivance and revanche des berceaux (revenge of the cradle, quiet revolution, quebec nationalism, bill 101, sovereignty-association. Key elements: french fact in canada today, 22% of the population have french as their mother tongue (29% in 1951) The portion has been declining: 79. 7% in qu bec. Overall the population is bilingual: over 85% live in qu bec, nationalism, a belief system that gives special significance to the nation as a source of loyalty, a nation it wishes to promote and preserve. The overall majority of quebecers are nationalist but it doesn"t mean that they believe in independent: nationalism can change over time has the definition of the nation change. It can change, before it was about the french territories and now it about the nation of quebec it can be a nasty concept, you belong there i belong here".
