Q: please help, i need an answer by 2morro. thanx
A: Quebec was the part of Canada where most French settlers lived (hence the language issue). When France lost the Seven Years' War against Britain, they had to surrender their North American colonies to the British. The French settlers stayed in Quebec; French settlers from other parts of Canada, who had betrayed the British during the war were deported, but some of them fled to quebec and settled there as well, adding to the number of French settlers already there. Since that war, Quebec has been a part of the British Empire and now Canada; the language issue remains, and some parts of the French-speaking population are highly xenophobic against immigrants, because these are more likely to speak/learn English instead of French. Also exemplary for Quebec's psyche and inferiority complex is the edge of hysteriy with which Quebecois reacted to Conan O'Brian's harmless jokes during his Canada visit ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skCsyCbOpUA ). France, with its inherent megalomania, still treats Quebec as part of its cultural empire; and when French preisdent Charles de Gaulle visited Quebec in 1967, he shamelessly lent support to Quebec's ultra-nationalists who had embarked upon a campaign of terrorist attacks.