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15% of Canadians don't speak English
    #23779889 - 10/28/16 12:07 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

List of countries by English-speaking population

Only 85% of Canadians speak English, compared with 90% of Swedish, Dutch, and Norwegians. Even Denmark and some Micronesian countries come before Canada. I always thought of Canada as basically just being the USA with minor cultural and legislative/executive differences. Language incompatibility is one of the most perceptible barriers between societies. I mean sure 85% is most and yes even here 5% of people don't speak English which is probably a less than the true number to be perfectly honest. But 15% seems really high for a country that I always thought of as a quirky extension of Minnesota. Granted  15% of the Canadian population is probably only like 500 people.


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Re: 15% of Canadians don't speak English [Re: morrowasted] * 4
    #23779893 - 10/28/16 12:08 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

They speak Canadese.


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Re: 15% of Canadians don't speak English [Re: morrowasted]
    #23779901 - 10/28/16 12:11 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

Probably mostly due to backwoods Quebecois, and the Chinese in Vancouver. Seriously there are fuckers out there only speaking french, makes me sick just thinking of it. Go to Richmond in Vancouver, and you'll see what I mean about the Chinese, they make up 54% of the city, and the older ones often don't show any understanding of English.

the nation is 20.6% immigrants as well (mostly Chinese) but it's easy not to notice if you live out of a major city as rural areas are pretty much all white


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Re: 15% of Canadians don't speak English [Re: Lucis]
    #23779905 - 10/28/16 12:12 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

Most Quebecers refuse to learn english because the British suppressed them and tried to assimilate them 200 years ago and they are still not over it.

It's a damn shame.

Big cties (10000+ population) in Quebec speak english. Anything rural or small town is 99% french


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Re: 15% of Canadians don't speak English [Re: morrowasted]
    #23779906 - 10/28/16 12:12 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

also maybe they're including Newfoundlanders, what they speak is barely language as far as I can see, let alone English


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Re: 15% of Canadians don't speak English [Re: Lucis]
    #23779912 - 10/28/16 12:15 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

I can see this. I live not too far from toronto.

When i go to toronto i realize that with all the immigrant owned businesses and other immigrants to hang out with why would they ever need to assimilate?

Im sure its also like this in other heavily populated places like vancouver.

Im also sure that there are alot of people in quebec that only speak french.


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Re: 15% of Canadians don't speak English [Re: Ezuma]
    #23779915 - 10/28/16 12:17 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

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also maybe they're including Newfoundlanders, what they speak is barely language as far as I can see, let alone English



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Re: 15% of Canadians don't speak English [Re: BANANA.MAN]
    #23779917 - 10/28/16 12:18 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

for some reason first generation immigrants living among themselves not speaking english doesn't bother me at all, but the french... I dunno I'm a bit prejudiced against Quebecois I guess, mostly cus they tendto be really stuck up (the hardcore french ones)

they've even got a school in my town that you can ONLY ATTEND if you're of Quebecois french-speaking ancestry... pretty racist mkay


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Re: 15% of Canadians don't speak English [Re: Ezuma]
    #23779921 - 10/28/16 12:19 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

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also maybe they're including Newfoundlanders, what they speak is barely language as far as I can see, let alone English




Soooooo true.... Jesus CHirst these people are impossible to understand.


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Re: 15% of Canadians don't speak English [Re: Ezuma] * 1
    #23779930 - 10/28/16 12:23 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

Oh yeah french canaidans think very highly of themselves. They tried to become an independant nation.

Yeah i dont mind if first generation immigrants dont speak english either.


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Re: 15% of Canadians don't speak English [Re: BANANA.MAN] * 2
    #23779991 - 10/28/16 12:57 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

And they say Canadians are insecure. BTW the accent in the Maritimes is pretty much the same as in Main.

Personally I love diversity I know some people fear anyone or anything that is slightly different but it only makes their world a lot smaller.

I love it! Fear is its own penalty. And greed can never be satisfied.:cool:


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Re: 15% of Canadians don't speak English [Re: rider420]
    #23780026 - 10/28/16 01:16 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

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Re: 15% of Canadians don't speak English [Re: rider420]
    #23780317 - 10/28/16 03:02 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

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And they say Canadians are insecure. BTW the accent in the Maritimes is pretty much the same as in Main.

Personally I love diversity I know some people fear anyone or anything that is slightly different but it only makes their world a lot smaller.

I love it! Fear is its own penalty. And greed can never be satisfied.:cool:



Not sure what you mean by that. Houston is about as multicultural as Toronto by the way. We have of course a metric fuckton of Latinos (literally about 40% of the population if you count undocumented immigrants), then the standard white americans who make up about half of the documented population, african americans are like 13%, then we have african immigrants, vietnamese, chinese, taiwanese, thai, indian, bangali, pakistani/iranian and russian immigrants. and those are just the major populations who actually have sections of town for themselves. I don't mind diversity. My elementary and middle schools actually did instruction in spanish half the day and I appreciate that  very much despite the seemingly controversial nature of teaching American public school in spanish because now I am about 85-90% fluent in spanish. At some point in my life I think it would be interesting to see what it's like to stay in Ireland (I'm a ginger) for a month or two just see how it feels to live somewhere where I don't stand out so much in a group.


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Re: 15% of Canadians don't speak English [Re: morrowasted]
    #23780385 - 10/28/16 03:26 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

That 15% probably speak French.


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Re: 15% of Canadians don't speak English [Re: Crystal G]
    #23780394 - 10/28/16 03:29 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

From what I am reading it sounds like a sizeable portion speak french and a bunch also speak asian languages. I have heard toronto has a lot of middle eastern and asian people


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Re: 15% of Canadians don't speak English [Re: Crystal G]
    #23780401 - 10/28/16 03:31 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

Once you get outside the suburbs of Montreal there are a suprisinly large number of people who don't speak english


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Re: 15% of Canadians don't speak English [Re: morrowasted]
    #23780403 - 10/28/16 03:31 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

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From what I am reading it sounds like a sizeable portion speak french and a bunch also speak asian languages. I have heard toronto has a lot of middle eastern and asian people



Canada has a much larger immigrant population per capita than the US. 20% or more of Canada is foreign born, and immigrants and children of immigrants in Quebec must be educated in French, by law unless the immigrants are native english speakers.



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Re: 15% of Canadians don't speak English [Re: morrowasted]
    #23780413 - 10/28/16 03:38 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

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And they say Canadians are insecure. BTW the accent in the Maritimes is pretty much the same as in Main.

Personally I love diversity I know some people fear anyone or anything that is slightly different but it only makes their world a lot smaller.

I love it! Fear is its own penalty. And greed can never be satisfied.:cool:



Not sure what you mean by that. Houston is about as multicultural as Toronto by the way. We have of course a metric fuckton of Latinos (literally about 40% of the population if you count undocumented immigrants), then the standard white americans who make up about half of the documented population, african americans are like 13%, then we have african immigrants, vietnamese, chinese, taiwanese, thai, indian, bangali, pakistani/iranian and russian immigrants. and those are just the major populations who actually have sections of town for themselves. I don't mind diversity. My elementary and middle schools actually did instruction in spanish half the day and I appreciate that  very much despite the seemingly controversial nature of teaching American public school in spanish because now I am about 85-90% fluent in spanish. At some point in my life I think it would be interesting to see what it's like to stay in Ireland (I'm a ginger) for a month or two just see how it feels to live somewhere where I don't stand out so much in a group.




I seriously doubt Houston is as multicultural as Toronto.

Despite French being an official language in Canada, it is about number 15 on a list of most spoken languages in Toronto. Toronto has massive Italian, Greek, Portuguese, and Chinese speaking communities.


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Re: 15% of Canadians don't speak English [Re: koods]
    #23780424 - 10/28/16 03:43 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

Im from quebec and half the people i know dont talk english,

Nothing to do with assimilation or shit that went down 200yrs ago, they just dont care


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Re: 15% of Canadians don't speak English [Re: Jean-guy Masta]
    #23780431 - 10/28/16 03:44 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

I can understand any accent like a charm

If they are trying to speak English


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