Re: Let Me Introduce Myself

B. Garcia wrote:

>On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 00:05:52 -0500, # 1 <salut_vous_autre@...>
>wrote:
>
> >Can YOU say this about your living place???
>
>
>One thing you learn here is not to insult someone else's homeland, or
>laud your homeland over where other people live, such is rude and
>uncalled for, and it causes flame wars.
Sorry! it was not an isult it was to answer to those who said they didn't
understand those who live with annual snow conditions

>As to your list:
>
> > - earthquakes (you followed what happened in south Asia..) - Quebec is
>not immune to earthquakes. There've been several significant ones:
>
>1935, 6.2, Quebec - Ontario Border, Temiscamingue region
>1925, 6.2, Charlevoix-Kamouraska region, Quebec
>1988, 5.9,  Saguenay region, Quebec
>1989, 6.3,  Ungava region, Quebec
6.3?? in the Quebec? I'll ask for it to people who will more know about it
but it seem weird that a place without tectonic limits (are these the
words?) could get so much

And even, four earthquakes that merit to be remembered in almost a century,
I don't find it so worse :)

More, it wasn't here that it stated, the epicenter(is that the english word?
I don't like talk technical stuff in english...)  was far because we don't
have tectonic limits I don't like talk technical stuff in english...) here
so it was stronger every where else on the way to us..

> > - tornados -  Quebec is not immune to these either:
>
>14 June 1892, St Rose, Quebec:  Six die and 26 are injured as a
>tornado tears through St Rose.
>11 June 1939, St John, Quebec:  Tornado racing through town rips roofs
>off houses and topples trees. The storm damages decorations erected
>for visit of King George and Queen Elizabeth on the 12th.
Quebec's tornados happen yes but in addition to the fact it is very limited
to the center of the Quebec, it is also very small, less than F1. Six deaths
is relatvely nothing compared with big F5 killing thousands of people,
destructing hundreds of houses, causing millions dollars degradation.

> > - hurricanes
>
>I'll give you this one, but Quebec has experienced the remanants of
>deorganized hurricanes. In fact your country has a hurricane center
>which monitors the remnants of these storms.
What can get to us of the hurricanes are only those who begun tropical
tempests (I translated litterally so i'm not sure of the term) and are only
felt here with some winds (wich worser problem is that the garbage are
thrown by the wind) and thunderstorms (giving a great show at the window)

the hurricane detection centers are here because *If a lot of conditions
were respected as the good winds, the good water streams (again?)

> > - tsunamis
>
>I'll give you this one as well. Since obviously, Quebec is too far
>inland.
And even parts of the Quebec on borders are too nordic to the formation of
tsunamis


> > - dryness
>
>If you mean drought, no place, even the wet tropics is free of the
>possibility of drought (Indonesia and the Philippines experienced
>drought during the last El Niño event). Quebec certainly is not.
It occurs sometimes that we receive anounces saying that the St-Lawrence
level is low and water reductions are done but it is a "humid continental"
(again?) climate and we have a great percentage of the liquid fresh water of
the world so problems are rare

> > - illness
>
>Plague? Well, don't be so sure. West Nile has been reported in Quebec.
>If you mean things like small pox, tuberculosis, and malaria, well
>these are typical third world concernsm like famines.
Ho the West Nile is reported in the Quebec each year on a few birds and we
have recommandations about using insect repel (?) to avoid contacts with
moskitos but only a very few death did occured so it's still not a danger

> > - pollution (as far as mexico for example)
>
>Mexico City is a rare case, as it sits in a bowl shaped valley at high
>altitude and the air gets trapped. Plus Mexico City has an enormous
>population.
yes I know about the reasons of the mexico conditions, I just meant that
even if we have pollution it's not as worse as many great cities

And also, the Quebec pollution often comes from the south (it's not an
insult or something it's a fact) because the winds make the Montreal's
region the receiver of the US and west Canada's pollutions

> > - political conflicts such as wars - Another pass as Canada tends to
>stay out of others' business.
Yes and in that sense I'm proud of my country. We don't get troubles with
the other countries and only send pacific supports where it needs some

More we MUST not get trouble with other countries because our economy is
based on the trade (in particular with USA who buy almost all our oil,
natural gaz(is that the word?), wood, aluminium and tons of other things)


> > (the worse political conflict is the secession of the Quebec and
>contrarily
> > to other political conflicts in the world there is no violence involved
>in)
>
>I knew several Canadians who were threatening to resort to violence
>had that ocurred.
Who are them? Do not answer.. Violence is never the politic way...

> > - religious conflicts as what happen almost everywhere in the world
>
>Maybe, but this isn't uncommon in liberal areas (such as where I live)
Uncommon in _democratic_ places but how much of the world is really
democratic?

The liberalism(does it exists in english?) doesn't help. Most of the
ex-European collonies are now liberal but, exept the North-American ones,
only a few are now without religious conflicts

More, we could include the discrimination of the Atheist in the
United-States as a religious conflict and also the stories about the rules
to avoid religious symbols in France's schools could also be a little one

> > - social conflicts (there is sometime a conflict about the rights of
> > minorities (french speakers, Amerindians, etc.) but it's never very big)
>
>Personally, I believe rights of minorities is quite a huge thing.
Yes it's sure, being myself in a minority in my country I understand this
but by "never very big" I only mean that it usually get solved fast.

The problems (I think of the teachers who want a "pay egality"(I don't know
the good english term) or the recent cuts of the government in the
scholarship(?)) never overpass the state of the pacific manifestations.

> > I think that living in these conditions is a little price for a life
>without
> > any danger
>
>One should never ever assume they live without danger. One shouldn't
>be constantly on guard, but never ever think that you're scott-free
>from any danger.
Ho no! I'll never think of danger where there is definitely not :)

Sky is blue, birds are singing, life is wonderful! We don't need to find
problems where there not

Do you know the proverb (it's approximately "The one who once scalded with
milk, blows on ice cream" ;P

Shaul Vardi wrote:

> > > - social conflicts (there is sometime a conflict about the
> > rights of
> > > minorities (french speakers, Amerindians, etc.) but it's never very
> > > big)
> > >
>
>But wait a sec - you're talking about Quebec, not Canada as a whole.  So
>how come French speakers are a minority?  I always thought a clear
>majority of all those living in Quebec speak French, and a very quick
>(and non-scientific) Google search confirms this (perhaps around 80
>percent).
In Quebec, the majority is French but in Canada, French is a minority. But
the effect of that National minority is only felt in the Quebec so it's a
problem in the Quebec between Frech speakers and the National governement
but the Amerindian and the Teachers conflicts are between them and the
provincial government

>Your comments remind me of a joke about Israelis, who are
>stereotypically thought to be quite nationalistic.  An Israeli spent
>five minutes telling a European (or whatever) friend about all that was
>good about Israel - the people are cleverest in the world; the climate
>is the most pleasant; the landscapes are the most stunning; the
>education system is the most sophisticated; the army is the strongest
>and most cunning,,,,, and so on and so on.  And he ended by saying "And
>we're also the most modest of people, we prefer to speak in
>understatements."  When the European gently pointed out that his friend
>has just spent five minutes praising every aspect of life in Israel, the
>Israeli replied: "yes, that's still an understatement."
Very funny! And I could say the same thing about the Quebec.

Are Israelis really so nationalistic or is it only a stereotyp?

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