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Let me explain. By posing as a premise that separatism postulates a Nation-State, it is relatively easy if not agreable to refute this aspiration of the French-Canadian nation to transmute into a Nation-State. Now, precisely, the Nation-State is a concept that is truly expired and which does not correspond neither to the reality nor to the latest data of science. | Let me explain. By posing as a premise that separatism postulates a Nation-State, it is relatively easy if not agreable to refute this aspiration of the French-Canadian nation to transmute into a Nation-State. Now, precisely, the Nation-State is a concept that is truly expired and which does not correspond neither to the reality nor to the latest data of science. | ||
The nation is not, as Trudeau let us hear, an ethnic reality. There no longer are [[Wikipedia:Ethnic group|ethnies]], or so little. Population displacements, immigration, [[Wikipedia:cultural assimilation|assimilation]] (which [http://www.demo.umontreal.ca/Jacques_Henripin.htm Jacques Henripin] rightly refers to as "[[Wikipedia:language shift| | The nation is not, as Trudeau let us hear, an ethnic reality. There no longer are [[Wikipedia:Ethnic group|ethnies]], or so little. Population displacements, immigration, [[Wikipedia:cultural assimilation|assimilation]] (which [http://www.demo.umontreal.ca/Jacques_Henripin.htm Jacques Henripin] rightly refers to as "[[Wikipedia:language shift|language shifts]]") produced an interpenetration of ethnies for which one incontestable result, in French Canada for example, is the grouping no longer according to the principle of the ethnic origin (the race, as we were still saying only twenty-five years ago) but according to a homogeneous cultural group whose only verifiable specificity is to be found at the linguistic level. | ||
It only suffice to look around oneself, among the people that we know, to quickly count the number of pure wool French Canadians: they are no longer the "true" French Canadians! The Mackays, the Johnsons, the Elliotts, the Aquins, the Molinaris, the O'Harleys, the Spénarts, les Espositos, les Globenskis, etc., say a lot about the French-Canadian ethnie-nation. The "linguistic transfers", of which speak Henripin, have occurred to our benefit as well as to our expense, so much that the kernel of immigrated colonists which accomplished the ''survivance'' is today mixed, at the ethnic level, to all the contributions which immigration or the randomness of love have added to our national ethnic purity. | It only suffice to look around oneself, among the people that we know, to quickly count the number of pure wool French Canadians: they are no longer the "true" French Canadians! The Mackays, the Johnsons, the Elliotts, the Aquins, the Molinaris, the O'Harleys, the Spénarts, les Espositos, les Globenskis, etc., say a lot about the French-Canadian ethnie-nation. The "linguistic transfers", of which speak Henripin, have occurred to our benefit as well as to our expense, so much that the kernel of immigrated colonists which accomplished the ''survivance'' is today mixed, at the ethnic level, to all the contributions which immigration or the randomness of love have added to our national ethnic purity. | ||