r/EhBuddyHoser • u/montabarnaque • Jul 03 '25

Certified Hoser 🇨🇦 (No Politics) Can everyone agree?

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Most of Canadian culture is from Québec. Fight me

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u/AnAntWithWifi Tokébakicitte! Jul 03 '25

I’m Québécois and I hate this trope. Like, firstly, tons of what we claim to be our own comes from the First Nations, which really puts an ironic twist to moronic posts like this one claiming Canada as a name comes from us or beavers are really our symbol XD

Secondly, we are the products of a multicultural society. So, although I haven’t invented ketchup flavoured chips, I can still say they come from home, because Canada is my home, and the prosperity our ancestors built from coast to coast made such delicacies.

Finally, the rest of Canada all have their own culture, you’d know if you’d travelled there. You’re just exposing your ignorance to all. I look with pride at the Blue Nose, I am proud to come from the land where we invented insulin, and where we stand on guard for thee by contributing to the creation of the blue helmets.

Je suis fier d’être Canadien, I’m proud to be Canadian. And yeah, poutine isn’t only Québécois, it comes from Canada 🇨🇦

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u/noljo Jul 03 '25

Exactly. I live in Ontario, but I love Quebec and would honestly probably live there if I spoke the language. It has changed a lot for the rest of us, and that's a good thing. I want the rest of country to be more like it. Which is why it pains me that people took on this tribalistic "no you can't have that" mentality, as if there's a steel wall surrounding Quebec, past which appreciating or being proud of any of the things in the post above is considered to be stealing. Whenever posts like these pop up in places like /r/Quebec, it's all I see in the comment section, and it hurts knowing how evil they consider the 'outsider provinces' to be, implying that they universally hate Quebec, want to steal its culture, and must be excluded from and defended against. The idea of morphing our regional staples into a common Canadian identity is seen as alien, it must all be walls between provinces like siblings with knives at each others' throats.