In Canada, as well as in France, Belgium, Switzerland, and Luxembourg there’s a socialism problem blended into the French language, which makes it a rather useless language in business, as learning French for business, is setting yourself up for VOLUNTARY economic misery.
In Canada, the province of Quebec is the worst province in which to do business. English-speaking Canada, in general, is forced to subsidize socialist Quebec, which guilt trips English-speaking Canadians into imagining that they need Quebecers.
In 2024, for most English-speaking Canadians, observing Quebecers is cringe-worthy because Quebecers have been allowed to live in their socialist bubble for decades, and modern technology, namely social media and the free flow of information, has made Quebecers from an English-speaking perspective look like people stuck in the 1970s-1980s, a period of time in which television was successful at manipulating minds.
In 2024, 1990s-style propaganda no longer works, and political democracy is no longer an important indicator of where the world is trending, primarily because the minority that focuses on economics has now reached a phase in which they’re mobile.
This mobility equates to a new world being created that is going to confuse a lot of French speakers, who are not ready for what’s coming. The French once imagined themselves as superior to the Spanish, but that trend appears to be reversing RAPIDLY, as freer markets appear to making their way into Spanish Speaking nations, which will likely lead to French becoming a niche language.
Estimates are that about 321 million people globally speak French; however, the majority of these people live in Africa. Over 250 million people speak Portuguese, and a larger percentage of these individuals are of European ancestry.
Spanish speakers number about 460 million. A larger number of Spanish speakers are also of European ancestry than French speakers. Once you start looking at the numbers, you can quickly see that if Africans abandon French, French speakers globally might be smaller than Italian speakers.
Now, this isn’t necessarily a bad thing; however, as more Scandinavian countries have figured out, if the world doesn’t speak your nation’s language, you’d better consider having a more market-friendly country because the investments will dry up rather quickly if the world has little reason to consider deploying capital into your country.
When I was growing up in Canada, public school teachers tried to sell English speakers on speaking French, but unless you wanted to work in a call centre or become a politician, there was no economic benefit to learning French in Canada.
Similar to owning the US dollar, people want to learn English. Why? Because ENOUGH English speakers prefer a market economy over a socialist economy to make English the language of business.
Sure, there are English-speaking socialists, but they’re met with the harsh reality that they will receive pushback against their socialist agenda. This doesn’t really exist in French-speaking cultures; socialism is ACCEPTED, it’s romanticized, socialism is viable in the minds of a lot of French speaking people and therefore, for most COMMONSENSE onlookers, French is looked upon as a language not worth learning because it’s depressing, French is not only a complex language to learn, the reward for learning French is being forced to communicate with a bunch of socialists, who will likely be adversarial or defensive to FREEDOM OF SPEECH.
Africa is, for the most part, dirt poor because a large chunk of Africans have French as their official language and the French market is small. In English-speaking Africa, problems are often linked to SOCIALISM and tribal entitlements, which is why English-speaking Africans tend to flourish when they leave Africa.
Of course, many Africans embrace Black American subcultures, which stunts their IQ and economic development, but when you observe Africans who speak French vs. Africans who speak English, it’s only a matter of time before Africans decide to dump the French language altogether. If that ever happens, one could argue that the number of French speakers globally will likely be similar to the number of Italian speakers globally, if not smaller.
Without mass migration, which is destroying France, its overall population would shrink, which is common among European socialist countries. Developed nations require a lot of manpower to maintain their infrastructure, and SOCIALISM undermines that. Socialism also demands inefficiency, which in a competitive world equates to France and other French-speaking nations being forced to attract less attractive immigrants.
In Canada, Quebec is finding it increasingly difficult to attract ANYONE of European descent to move there, and birth rates are on the decline. I suspect this will accelerate in the coming years as reality sets in that French Socialism is an utter failure GLOBALLY.