Montreal: An Island of French Immigrants
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Montreal: An Island of French
Montreal is an island commonly inhabited by immigrants just like its home country and the neighboring states in North America. The geographic content covered within the video is the distribution of the people, the Francophone, and Anglophone and the struggle by the French speakers to keep dominance in the English-speaking minority. The video coverage shows the voting distribution and distribution of political seats based on the languages spoken in the area. The significant aspects of coverage are the effects of globalization, immigration, the referendum, language preservation, cultural identity and the sovereignty of the area.
There is a struggle to preserve French culture in the city since the city is surrounded by English-speaking countries that are domineering. Even as English speakers represent the minority, they control the economy of the area. The part of the video that caught my attention is that the language used in business and commerce is English even though French speakers inhabit majority of the region. This is a real threat to French and its culture as the more English language is used for major processes and interactions, the more the French fade out.
It is so exciting that even though the French dominates the region, the business language still reflects in English, which is a common language, spoken in Canada. What is most interesting about the video is that even as the region tries to maintain French culture and language, they still welcome immigrants to compensate for the low birth rate. The video depicts that the people who migrate into the area are from any part of the world, but the government commits them to learning French and assimilating into the culture. The video brought the topic alive by showing linguistic distribution, which indicated that the French dominated the area. The governments still have restrictions that promote French and diminish English by law set.