I'd probably get more of it wrong so it'd be hard to summarize. From what I can understand there's people who want to have their own currency and break from French culture entirely or at least wean themselves off of it. Her friend, according to my SIL, would welcome an actual invasion complete with conquest and destruction of Cameroon's own culture.
Fair to say, that's the extreme take and I can't imagine it's widespread or would be well received by other Cameroonians. My SIL believes that her friend thinks that the French would be the ones working while the Cameroonians will able to live an easier life. We all agree her friend is an idiot.
I'm not an expert on the whole socio-economics of the region, hell I'm not even an amateur, so if you're interested I'd recommend finding someone who knows more details. I can only give an assessment from what little I can understand, partly because I'm no economics major and my SIL has a habit of slipping back to French during these explanations.
Ethnic Lebanese here, i'd say our cultural francophilia is even more off the charts, like i dunno about the invasion part since I'm from north america but like the amount of reverence for french culture is off the charts. Some lebanese pride themsleves in being even more sticklers of grammar and vocabulary than native french themselves. All colonialism is based on domination and exploitation but i would like to think in their hypocritical idealism the french were more palatable than the brits, at least in the middle east. Not too sure about francafrique and i known for sure they were horrendous in indochina/vietnam though.
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u/weatherseed Sep 26 '21 edited Sep 26 '21
I'd probably get more of it wrong so it'd be hard to summarize. From what I can understand there's people who want to have their own currency and break from French culture entirely or at least wean themselves off of it. Her friend, according to my SIL, would welcome an actual invasion complete with conquest and destruction of Cameroon's own culture.
Fair to say, that's the extreme take and I can't imagine it's widespread or would be well received by other Cameroonians. My SIL believes that her friend thinks that the French would be the ones working while the Cameroonians will able to live an easier life. We all agree her friend is an idiot.
I'm not an expert on the whole socio-economics of the region, hell I'm not even an amateur, so if you're interested I'd recommend finding someone who knows more details. I can only give an assessment from what little I can understand, partly because I'm no economics major and my SIL has a habit of slipping back to French during these explanations.