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Anglos Go Home
Montreal, QC - CE - Tuesday, December 18th, 2007 : goo
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It's not often that you see politically charged graffiti concerning language in Montreal these days but once and awhile something will pop up. I recently snapped this picture of a somewhat buffed "Anglos go home" piece in the Bonaventure Metro station. As of today when I came out of the metro, it still remains.
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jeeff: the irony that it's in english.
Jamie: 19th Dec 2007 - 09:18 GMT
But surely if it were en français then the stupid anglophones wouldn't be able to read it.
Peter: 19th Dec 2007 - 16:27 GMT
im wondering where, exactly, theyre supposed to "go home" to... anglo-ville? or are they referring to tourists or something?
EvilGentleman: 19th Dec 2007 - 20:12 GMT
I guess they would go home to England. Mind you, the writer of the wall scrawl above has not considered what that might also imply for the French of Quebec. Oh well, at least I'm safe.
But if the English and French leave, then I suppose the housing market will be a heck of a lot cheaper. But very different ethnicities. I guess I should buy a Hindi-Mandarin dictionary, or perhaps an Italian-Mohawk one.
Peter: 19th Dec 2007 - 21:57 GMT
yes, it always makes me chuckle a bit when one non-indigenous subset of people start possessively talking down to another subset of non-indigenous people in terms of their collective geography. makes one wonder what gives them the idea it should be inherently franco/anglo/whatever in the first place...
jeeff: 20th Dec 2007 - 06:07 GMT
by writing in english they implicitly acknowledge that english is a valid medium for communication. at least if they wrote it in french they could say, "fuck you, we don't care what you understand!"
joey: en francais: les anglos vont à la maison
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