the Quebecois, the Afrikaners, and national survival - surrounded by their own kind

If Quebec/New France was captured and taken over by the British in 1759-63 as OTL but it has been surrounded by other French-speaking polities rather than English-speaking ones down to this day, would the French-Canadians have been as obsessed with national survival as OTL? Until the 1960s Quiet Revolution anyway, would they still have used the Catholic Church as a means of ensuring national survival, and would they still have tied Catholic and French identities?

Similarly, if the Cape Colony was captured and taken over by the British in the early 1800s as OTL but it has been surrounded down to this day by other Dutch-speaking polities from the very beginning all over southern Africa (rather than as a result of the Great Trek in more limited areas), would the Afrikaners have been as obsessed with national survival as OTL?
 
At least in the case of the Quebecois, they originally were, but the British either deported or overwhelmed those populations
 
What I mean is, if the Quebecois kept on being surrounded by other French-speaking peoples (Acadians and more) and if the Boers were surrounded by other Dutch-speaking peoples all over southern Africa, the way that Argentines or Peruvians or Venezuelans or Guatemalans have been surrounded mainly by other Spanish-speaking peoples.
 
In Québec francophones have always formed a clear majority, but they historically faced discrimination in the workplace and elsewhere at the hands of the anglophone minority, which dominated the economy. That, to a large degree, fueled nationalistic sentiment ("Maîtres chez nous"). I'm not sure if having more francophone provinces would change this. In any timeline where Canada is part of the British Empire, you will probably have an anglophone elite, and laws to protect their interests.
 
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I mean, the probkems in the Quebecois case was that there were too few Missouri French for them to continue on - and you'd need to get more migration there to change that - and that the Acadians got deported becuase the British were afraid that they'd side with France and the Quebecois against the British, so you'll need to dismiss that fear to keep them around as much
 
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