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Originally Posted by Acajack
We're definitely seen as stubborn resisters - this image is fairly ubiquitous throughout the francophone world.
The classic image of us being that of the Village Gaulois from the Astérix comic strips, surrounded on all sides by threatening Roman outposts:
http://one360.eu/blog/archives/42068
That said, people are more iffy on the details of how successfully we are resisting.
Which is why for example many European French are often mystified by the fact that many Québécois speak little to no English. |
People around the world are mystified by the fact. Heck, I'm mystified by the fact.
I'm reminded of a conversation I had once with a senior South Korean bureaucrat who, on learning that about half the population didn't speak English, scrunched up his face in a way that spoke to his astonishment and asked me "On purpose?".