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The Pursuit of Prosperity in a Transition Society

其他書名	The Case of Québec in the XXth Century
出版	Canadian Electronic Library., 2006
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=eKTrjwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Among some of the negative factors present in Québec, one can mention: - The feudal origin origins of the Québec "transplant" (New France) - The "refusal" of Québec to join in the American Revolution and free itself from British domination - A garrison-state mentality due to its minority status - The continuous influence of the French centralist, Jacobin political tradition - The absence of a home [...] We will stress four: the instrumentalization of core cultural values, the emergence of state interventionism in a supporting role, the strategic use of nationalism and the emergence of a mass culture. [...] One question has pre-empted all others: to what extent is the (French) Québec value system "different" from that of the (Anglophone) "Rest of Canada" ? Answers to this question have led to a host of others on the proximity of the Québec value system to its American counterpart and to the recent evolution - is there more or less convergence ? - of the values of Quebeckers, Canadians and Americans19 [...] Much decried at the time in the Anglophone population, this switch is still being fought by some elements of the English-speaking population, many of whom object no doubt to the forced display of what they considered the equivalent of the Confederate flag. [...] This issue raises the parallel question of the role of the Church and of religion in the transformation of societies.