Changes in Rural French-Canadian Culture

French-Canadian culture is losing its folk nature even in the rural regions. The culture shift is toward urbanization and anglicization. The change is evidenced in an altered economy-a shift from practical economic independence to dependence upon the factories and markets of Canada and the United States. The culture context of English words borrowed by the French indicates the greatest diffusion to be of technical and mechanical items, clothing, and business concepts. The Frech-Canadian family system depends upon many children for its proper economic functioning. These children were once absorbed by the rural culture itself, but land pressure has forced noninheriting offspring into industrial cities. The insolation which maintained the old culture is being broken because of the structural needs of the rural society itself. These internal problems have also crated a new marginal economic type living in the rural regions by government road work, peddling, or some special skill. This group is not well integrated into the old culture patterns based on a farming economy. A declining birth-rate in response to the same problem has been almost offset by reduced infant mortality. The adjustment of the rural culture is not yet made, but the effects of the attempted adjustments are evident

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