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Originally Posted by Frankiz
What also frightens me is that in your profile you adopt the Breton Flag which is a nationalist flag created in the 30's by an independantist Breton patriot!
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Well, sometimes I use Irish flag, then the Scottish or the Occitanian ones, I just like the Breton flag, but maybe it is now forbidden by the Nationalist Provisory Breton Governement ?
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The cultural and historical identity of Brittany has to be taken into account just like the Elsassian one, doesn't it?
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Right.
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I'm just wondering...perhaps you thought the Breton flag was a latin flag, in that case I excuse you and will be delighted to teach you 2 or 3 things about the Breton culture.
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I know well several Quebecers and Afrikaners and I've lived in their country. They are Americans and Africans. They deeply feel their land are respectively american and african, not european. About Argentinians I couldn't tell you.
About whites from Southern Africa, a distinction must be made between the Afrikaners and the Anglo-saxons. The Afrikaners are descendants of Dutch, German and French protestants who settled there a very long time ago, roughly the same period as the Quebecers, the Acadians, the American WASP settled in the Americas. They completely cut their links with their original lands.
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I met an Afrikaner guy when I was in London, and he told me how he felt European (but maybe it was because he was in Europe and not in his country
). I also met some Quebecers, in France and in Montreal, and they said me that they were French in their hearts, although living in America : they were proud of their land, of course, and didn't want to come back to Europe, but culturally felt Europeans. But you lived there, so you know their countries more than me (and I'm a cheeky teenager so...
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Another point : in their mentality, they are not European at all. They react completely differently as they live in a completely different continent with a different culture they made on their own.
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Well, you know, I don't have at all the same mentality than most French and Europeans. Sometimes I feel closer to Iraqis or Palestinians (in terms of values, faith, ...) than to most of my compatriots. Unfortunately.
