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Originally Posted by BretttheRiderFan
Movies: Obviously the fact that France dominates the Francophone movie industry skews those stats, but Quebecers flock to the theatres for the latest Hollywood flick in droves as well. If Britain dominated the English language movie industry, the same would happen in English Canada.
Cuisine: Maybe, but again I'd say Montreal cuisine is certainly more "Canadian" centric than Toronto or Vancouver by a mile
Literature: Again, French is the dominant language, and obviously French literature would be more widespread than English and therefore more European literature sold as a result.
Fashion: I will give you this one
Music: On the English stations, the programming is generally the same as the rest of Canada. On the French stations, obviously French artists would be more prevalent than American
Sports: The two most popular teams in Montreal (Habs and Als) play sports that largely developed in the city of Montreal itself, and soccer is bigger in Toronto and Vancouver than Montreal
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A few huge misconceptions here. You assume that you can just replace 'American' with 'French (from France)' and everything's equal. It's not.
Cinema: Quebeckers do flock to Hollywood blockbusters but they also flock to their own movies. Domestic cinema is big here and at any given time there will be one or two Québec movies in the top ten. They often make it to number one. There are also French movies but they play a less significant role than either Hollywood or Québec movies. There's even a 10 day festival in February devoted to Québécois films, both french and english.
http://rvcq.com/festival-28e/a-propos There is no equivalent in Canada as few people, in Canada, watch Canadian films. TV is even more local with most of the top rated shows being produced here, not in France or the U.S.
Literature: Quebeckers read books from everywhere, as do Canadians. Whatever is translated is read. While French authors are popular, Québec has a long literary tradition (in both english and french) and I would hazard a guess that local authors are more popular than French (ignoring the classics). There is, of course, a festival which attracts over 120,000 people every year. It's the largest literary festival in North America.
http://www.salondulivredemontreal.com/
Music: Music transcends language (U2 just built a temporary stadium and sold out 2, 80,000 seat shows in Montréal). Again, although there are some very popular artists from France, the most popular are from here, in french or english. It has nothing to do with "all artists that aren't english are from France".
Cuisine: Traditional Québec cuisine is heavily influenced by French, Irish and Native cuisine. There are many restaurants that serve Québec cuisine but I'm not sure that I've ever seen a 'Canadian' cuisine restaurant.. anywhere. I'm not sure if they exist, but I can go anywhere in the country and see Montréal-style bagels, smoked meat, steak spice, etc. and Québec cheese and poutine being advertised (although poutine is now, apparently 'Canadian').
Sports: Soccer is not just European, it's also the most popular sport in Africa and South/Central America. Montréal goes completely mental during World Cup and set all Canadian attendance records for CONCACAF and the FIFA U-20- and soccer in general. I predict that attendance for the upcoming FIFA Women's World Cup will be outstanding here.