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| ] President ] has declared ''"There is no obsession for racial purity in Quebec, definitely not. The expression 'pure laine' is absolutely obsolete."'' <ref name="Charest"> by the Canadian Press, ''The Gazette'', September 19, 2006, retrieved September 20, 2006</ref>. | ] President ] has declared ''"There is no obsession for racial purity in Quebec, definitely not. The expression 'pure laine' is absolutely obsolete."'' <ref name="Charest"> by the Canadian Press, ''The Gazette'', September 19, 2006, retrieved September 20, 2006</ref>. | ||
| While not inherently ] or offensive, it is sometimes interpreted as such. The terminology "pure laine" is actually regularly used in the English Canadian press and refers to a supposed form of racism common within the nationalists communities and organisation from the province of Quebec. This phenomenon is commonly perceived in Quebec as a form of ].<ref>Lester, Normand, Le livre noir du Canada anglais, Éditions Les Intouchables, Québec, Canada, 2001</ref> | While not inherently ] or offensive, it is sometimes interpreted as such. The terminology "pure laine" is actually regularly used in the English Canadian press and refers to a supposed form of racism common within the nationalists communities and organisation from the province of Quebec. This phenomenon is commonly perceived in Quebec as a form of ].<ref>Lester, Normand, Le livre noir du Canada anglais, Éditions Les Intouchables, Québec, Canada, 2001</ref> In 2001, the Canadian performance artist ] created a piece named "Pure laine" by standing motionless 24 hours on the side of the Mount-Royal Mountain in Montreal during the festival FA3 (curated by Josée Tremblay, Sonia Pelletier and ]). | ||
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The French term pur laine (also rendered as pure laine), literally meaning pure wool (and often interpreted as true blue or dyed-in-the-wool), is a politically and culturally charged phrase referring to the nationalist myth of a "pure French race" being the original ancestors of the French-Canadians. Another similar term is de souche (roughly in English, old stock).
While many French-Canadians are able to trace their ancestry back to the original settlers of New France, many are also descended from marriages between the French and Irish settlers, whom shared the same Roman Catholic faith (and thus had their unions approved by the once powerful Church in Quebec). Many English people settled in the region and were ultimately assimilated into the francophone culture. Additionally, Quebec has enjoyed the benefits of a long standing policy of immigration from French speaking countries, which has added to, and changed, French-Canadian culture.
The use of this phrase is mostly deprecated . Regardless, English-language commentators Brigitte Pellerin of the Ottawa Citizen and Jan Wong of The Globe and Mail continue to use the term.
Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society President Jean Dorion has declared "There is no obsession for racial purity in Quebec, definitely not. The expression 'pure laine' is absolutely obsolete." .
While not inherently racist or offensive, it is sometimes interpreted as such. The terminology "pure laine" is actually regularly used in the English Canadian press and refers to a supposed form of racism common within the nationalists communities and organisation from the province of Quebec. This phenomenon is commonly perceived in Quebec as a form of Canadian anti-nationalistic propaganda. In 2001, the Canadian performance artist Paul Couillard created a piece named "Pure laine" by standing motionless 24 hours on the side of the Mount-Royal Mountain in Montreal during the festival FA3 (curated by Josée Tremblay, Sonia Pelletier and André Éric Létourneau).
References
- ^ "Charest seeks Globe apology over notion culture a factor in school shootings" by the Canadian Press, The Gazette, September 19, 2006, retrieved September 20, 2006
- "Les « pures laines » coupables ?" by Antoine Robitaille, La Presse, September 19, 2006.
- Don't faint, I'm siding with a separatist
- L'affaire Wong' becomes talk of Quebec
- Lester, Normand, Le livre noir du Canada anglais, Éditions Les Intouchables, Québec, Canada, 2001
Further reading
- Taras Grescoe. Sacre Blues: An Unsentimental Journey Through Quebec. Macfarlane Walter & Ross, 2004. ISBN 1551990814
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