The argument is essentially that Quebec is unique, has a unique francophone culture and a unique language compared to the rest of English Canada. However, the cultural argument was essentially that the French in Canada were in danger of being assimilated by the rest of Canada. Therefore, Quebec needed an independent political entity to preserve its unique language, identity and culture. Although over the years popular support for separation and autonomy has decreased, making inroads into the primordialist idea of "fixed" identity. It also creates a further hole because identities change over generations, as in the case of Quebec where sovereignty, which was favored among older generations and when these disappeared, also support for the cause. Quebec's calls for autonomy arguably reached their peak in 1970 with bombings and kidnappings by the FLQ, a nationalist terrorist group. The idea that identity is fixed makes it rather difficult to analyze the change in Quebec nationalism and highlights the need for other conceptual languages such as situationism or
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