Francis Chartrand for Rivière-des-Mille-Îles

In 1973, Alain Peyrefitte wrote a book titled When China awakes.

The title was borrowed from a prophecy allegedly made Napoleon: "When China awakes, the world tremble ..."

Josephine's boyfriend was right. Not only China has awakened, but she got up, she took a shower and she was dressed. All this while the West was sleeping mouth open.

THE GRAND YELLOW LAUGH

In his column on Sunday, my colleague Marco Fortier wrote that the Chinese middle class has between 100 and 200 million workers. Five times the population of Canada. It makes the world dimsum.

And us, what we do, while the yellow tide rises?

We are wasting our energy in unnecessary fights. Quebec City against Montreal, urbans against urban commuters. Should we change the colour of margarine, should remove the crucifix in the National Assembly, should we allow a firefighter french to extinguish fires in Quebec as he has learned to handle a garden hose in another country ...

It will be the pancake for nonsense ...

If it continues, you know what will happen? In Dollarama in Beijing, we will sell plastic stuff made in Quebec.

And the Chinese students will donate money to their teacher to buy little Quebecers ...

THE ZIZANIE

Goddamn that Quebec is disheartening, sometimes ... The fire was caught in the house, and we are here to wonder if we should leave the furniture on the front or the rear.

Instead of uniting our forces, we yell, we shout names, we are throwing rocks ...

It is quite upset because a newspaper in the suburbs south of Liverpool mentions on page F9 that Paul McCartney gave a show in the Old Capital.

Fuck!

SUPER CHILL

In a few years, all mcjobs will move to India or China. People who have no education will find themselves the butt on the straw. There will be no factories for hire, no call centres to give them work, nothing.

You call the corner pizzeria to make you deliver an "extra-large all-dressed", and is a student of Calcutta who will respond and will take your order. You do not know, because it will speak a perfect french.

And when your pizza arrives at you, your children, who bear clothing made in China and will play on their Nintendo made in Japan say that it is full hot, super cool and chill. That's what awaits us.

Young Asians and young Indians are ready for all sacrifices for education, and we, what do we do?

We are walking in the street because we do not want the state increases the fees for FIFTY DOLLARS IN SESSION.

EYE OF TIGRE

Do you remember Rocky III? The former champion is so sure of its superiority that it has become big and lazy, while his younger opponent has "the eye of tigre".

Well, Rocky it's us. And the young on the other side of the ring, it is India and China.

Who will be fighted, do you?

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# posted by Francis Chartrand @ 10:21 PM