PSCI 2002 Study Guide - English Canada, Jon Sullivan, Quebec Nationalism

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Of the many social and political cleavages in canada, one of the most longstanding has been that between quebec and canada, and quebec"s quest for constitutional recognition and acknowledgement as a distinct culture and society. Since canada"s inception, there has always been a division between two dominant cultures; that of the french and the english. Canada is made up of people from various cultural backgrounds and ethnicities, yet they do not lobby for their own nation. It is my opinion, that quebeckers, and by extension french canadians, have long had an identity which differed from, but worked in concert with what it meant to be canadian. Quebec does not want to separate to lash out at the rest of canada, but rather to affirm an identity that many french. In the article the quebec national identity from the encyclopedia of canada"s peoples, Throughout their history, quebeckers have periodically defined what it means to be quebecois(and by.

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