It seems like it's always acceptable for a québécois or québécoise to dislike an anglo. I've heard "crisse d'Anglais" more times than I care to count. It's interesting to me that it's frowned upon and shocking for an anglophone Quebecker to not like an Ontarionian, or to make sweeping generalizations about an English-speaking population. Racism is racism, isn't it?
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I've spent my fair share of time here in Quebec City feeling lonely (and worse, alone). What might be even worse is that now I have the additional anguish of missing one of the few people I had in this blasted city, someone I've become quite close to and developed strong feelings for (even if our "relationship" is up in the air). It's not so much that she's in Central America, or that she's going to be living 700km away for the summer and God knows where next year; at least I know she'll be coming back to someplace relatively near here. Problem is I don't know if she'll be coming back to me, and that's a scary feeling.
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So the EU is boycotting all our seal products. Ok, first things first: am I the only one who didn't know we exported that many seal products to begin with? But I digress. It seems the international community is in an uproar, calling the seal hunt a cruel and barbaric practice. Now, I'm all for animal rights, but here's my question: is the seal hunt actually so much more cruel than any other hunt, or is it just that seals are cute, and red blood stands out against white snow?
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