Godstud wrote:French colonists were the same as everyone else...
This is completely false.
From the beginning of New France, Acadia, Montreal (Ville-Marie) and other francophone settlements were half native. Montreal (Ville-Marie) remained half native up until it was militarily attacked and taken over by the anglos who outnumbered francophones 40 to 1.
The Natives of North America were allies of the French who never wanted to take over the continent. The cultures of both the Quebec region and Acadia were hybrid cultures, and NOT European transplants.
The Anglos "won" all the wars because they started them against a tiny group of Francos who they could easily conquer. This is like when the USA attacked Grenada in the 80s, or when France-Britain-USA attacked Libya. It's not heroic, it's genocidal business-driven foreign relations.
And the Anglos were so racist and militaristic that they even attacked their own allies eventually. That's how Quebec ended up with so many Mohawks who originally lived in New York state. They had to leave because they were allied with Britain - the wrong military side of an inner-anglo war for business dominance.
Donald Trump is a great avatar for Anglo North America: equal parts stupid of history (who wouldn't be if they had the anglo history) and greedy beyond reason.
There is no culture to assimilate to in Anglo Canada, which is why it's easy to sell concepts like multiculturalism there. "Whatever destroys whatever's left of the local cultures" is what our clueless mercenaries have been trained to think.