Culture in Danger, Extended Version (Culture en Péril, Version Longue, with subtitles)

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This video, originally titled "Culture en Péril (Version Longue)", was created by a few Québec artists to denounce the cuts in cultural funding by the Conservative governement, led by Stephen Harper. This extended version of the original includes english subtitles.

When Beau Dommage's Michel Rivard visits a newly formed governmental committee overseeing cultural financing, language gaps and cultural misunderstandings abounds, mostly when Rivard plays his classical song, "La Complainte du Phoque en Alaska" (The Complaint of the Seal in Alaska)...

***I received a message about this video from the original creators, so I assume it's accepted that my subtitled version doesn't interfere with their intellectual property.***

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[laysampson1231c]

This video went viral on Suriname

[Vineon]

@kev064

I am not sure what you are replying to but I'd hardly call less than 5% of the rest of Canada "a lot of francophones". Especially considering most of them are either NB's Acadians, live very close to Québec or are part of the few surviving french 'hot spots' in Ontario and elsewhere, like the Sudbury or Saint-Boniface communities.

[kev064]

@Vineon That's what you think... there is a lot of francophone that live outside québec. you should do some research

[Burrito50cal]

I watched this in social and everybody laughed so much!

[Bamledur]

HA HA HA j'ai pas mal ri la dessus thumbs up michel !!!

[Vineon]

@ethanhines

What makes Québec stand out when compared to much more endangered languages, such as the aboriginal languages in Canada, is that it controls a government which has juridiction over language and yet still a population that still speaks the language, very much likely to support legislation.

Something else probably of note, Bill 101 isn't actually very restricting.

[Vineon]

@ethanhines

Language protectonism actually exists everywhere, I have no idea why you intend to single out Québec this way. Most of what adds to cultural diversity is a good thing. There are hundreds of endangered languages, many of them a whole lot more than french is in Québec and yes most if not all of them resort to protectionism to "ensure their continuance".

Your guess that most will disappear is likely however still a good guess.

[Vineon]

@ethanhines

You said "Why is it that the French language continues to use sexist models such as Masculine and Feminine it's absurd!"

What is absurd is that you insist it is a "sexist model", something I nearly fell out of my chair reading. You may not like it, but it adds a lot of precision to the language, a certain precision that english lacks. There's certainly nothing "sexist" about it, in any case.

[ethanhines]

@Vineon did the Romans need a loi 101 to protect Latin? have the Irish enacted a law to protect Gaelic? I direct your attention to Wikipedia where over 50 languages are either in decline or extinct wikipedia's "List_of_endangered_languages" did they/will they resort to protectionism to ensure their continuance? My guess is no they will die off or be merged with other languages. Why is it that the French language continues to use sexist models such as Masculine and Feminine it's absurd!