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HARP-293 |
| Title: |
Identity Politics and Multiculturalism in Quebec |
| Source: |
Cultural Survival Quarterly, Issue 18.2, http://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/csq/print/article_print.cfm?id=0000036C-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 |
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| Year: |
2001 |
| Pages: |
0 |
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| Keywords: |
administration, Canada, colonial/colonialism, culture, decision making, English, French, human rights, jurisdiction, legal, Quebec, ethnic minorities, civil and political rights, minority rights, self-determination |
| Abstract: |
Given the plight of most minority cultures today in resisting assimilation into the vortex of stronger, dominant cultures. French-speaking Quebecers – the Québecois as they are known – represent something of a success story. IN the last three decades, driven by a powerful and dynamic ethnonationalist pride, they have managed to tackle the stigma of colonial conquest and overturn more than two centuries of exclusion from Canada’s major networks of social and economic development; they have come out of almost total political and institutional marginalization and succeeded in tending off near cultural asphyxiation. Although still unsuccessful in establishing themselves as a sovereign nation-state – largely because many among that it is the proper course of action to satisfy their national aspirations – they now exercise quasi – absolute control over a strong provincial state with extensive legal, administrative, and policymaking jurisdiction. The Quebec state has come to occupy a highlu significant place in the political culture of Quebec. It plays a central role in symbolizing and maintaining the cohesiveness of the nation québécoise against what Quebec nationalists perceive as the steamrolling and centralistic dispositions of the English-Canadian state. Quebec, many would argue, has become a virtual state within the state. |
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Keywords: administration, Canada, civil and political rights, colonial/colonialism, culture, decision/decision-making, English, ethnic minorities, French, human rights, jurisdiction, legal, minority rights, Quebec, self-determination
