People who claim lineage back to the Mayflower seem to be largely bougie neolib douchebags from WASP old money lineages which have been intermingling themselves with the tribe for generations.
Singapore keeps order with a policing apparatus and justice system that quite literally brings a whole world of hurt on your ass if you misbehave. It also still relies on English as the de facto lingua franca.
If you guys do a resolution on secession/joining the US it'd really just be up to us to honor it. Ottawa can scream and say it's illegitimate all they want but they won't be able to do anything about it if the US says "Nah Canada, it's legit. Don't try it."
The people in power certainly do. Carney might spout the liberal rhetoric to his economically illiterate voter base, but I imagine should he ever actually find himself staring down a legitimate Albertan secession threat the internal consensus is going to be "absolutely fucking not, we'll be completely ruined without that oil".
An Albertan secession would be way funnier because I imagine Canadian libtards would initially celebrate freeing the country from the chuds, then descend into bewildered screeching as they suffer the inevitably economic consequences of said chuds taking a fuckton of oil reserves with them.
I want to sympathize because I know Carney sucks total shit, but according to Canadians who have given me the inside baseball on provincial politics, Quebec is extremely libtarded even by Canadian standards.
As human social organization advanced from tribes to civilizations it became a far less relevant selection pressure, but by that point the results of it had already long been etched into the human genome.
Expands linguistic vocabulary for more kino prose + adds additional retard filters to the language learning curve. Yeah, I'm thinkin' liberated words are the most based part of the English language.
Nah I did, I just don't care. I've heard the "English is le dumb because loan words don't obey the heckin' rulerinos" from redditoids a gorillion times before. Not my problem, it doesn't matter when you grow up speaking it. ESLs figure it out because speaking the tongue of winners is worth it.
Perhaps, but Canada doesn't do that. Quebec is allowed to exist in an English-speaking country as a province where the official language is legally French. That's a retarded modern consequence of the British not taking steps to properly incorporate a newly conquered territory 265 years ago.
Point is it's been an issue ever since English-speakers and French-speakers became sandwiched into a single polity through the comical happenstance of North American colonial history.
That's not a fair comparison. Once the British Isles consolidated under the United Kingdom, language largely standardized to English while all the others withered to niche regional secondary tongues.
Reminder that modern humanity's dimorphic psychology was forged in the evolutionary fires of 300,000+ years of conflict where the stakes were the men in the losing tribe got slaughtered while the women were mostly absorbed.
A multilingual population literally has zero upsides and endless downsides. Canada had spent generations enduring endless cultural conflict headaches just between French-speaking Quebec and the rest of the English-speaking country, and yet they decided dumping a bunch of Mandarin and brown-speakers into the mix was somehow a fantastic plan.