Legislating culture - and how to bring about its inevitable end.

As some may know, I was born and raised in another country. I lived in Canada for over 25 years. Je suis fier de s'appeler un citoyen de Montréal.  Much of my adult life however has been spent in the States.



One of the reasons I left Canada was taking advantage of economic opportunity in the field I was working in. The opportunities in IT were greater in the US.


But I had another reason for leaving.


I left Quebec because I couldn’t stand all the endless fighting over language, education and culture.


More than 10 years out, and it doesn’t look like anything has really changed.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2010/10/19/quebec-bill115-language-103.html  


Look I get that Francophones in Quebec don’t want their heritage, culture and language to disappear. And yes I can see that it’s tough living on a continent where the English language dominates.


What they don’t see, is that English is not just the dominating language in North America, but at present, pretty much the whole world.


When are people going to finally wake up and realize when you try to legislate, language and education in order to restrict one culture in favor of another, you’re already past the point of decline? When honoring the past becomes more important than living in the present and planning for the future, everyone loses.