Thank you very much for your comments.
A proud Acadian whose name I am sure you know, Jean-Marc Nadeau, often says: “a small apple is no less an apple than a big apple”. So, even if we are talking about a people like the Acadians, who are not really numerous in comparison with other peoples, we are all peoples, we are all human beings and we all want to cultivate the common identity that unites us.
As to your question of how to develop culture as such, I feel that, in order to make sure that a community or a people can endure, we have to invest in its youth. In our French-speaking schools, we often talk about identity-building. Young people have to be imbued with things that will develop their pride and their identification with their culture and their mother tongue.
When dealing with youth, we often talk about “aha moments”, the times when a kid has an experience that will make him think about, understand and relate to his identity and his culture. He will choose to cultivate them and use them to advantage for the rest of his life. He will register his children in francophone schools, participate in community activities, and so on.
So we need all the initiatives that the government can support that will let kids experience events in which they get out of their communities, meet people from other places and experience those “aha moments”. Among many others, they are some of the indications, we feel, of the long-term development of the vitality of our communities.