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- From: benali@alcor.concordia.ca ( ILYESS B. BDIRA )
- Newsgroups: can.jobs,soc.culture.french
- Subject: Re: Student relocation & employment in Canada
- Message-ID: <benali.726077257@alcor>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 16:07:37 GMT
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- Sandra_Warner@mindlink.bc.ca (Sandra Warner) writes:
-
- >> >
- >> >1) Noone is allowed to send their children to English schools in Quebec
- >> > unless they were educated in English in Canada! :-((((((
- >>
- >> If people move to France, Germany, Japan, etc. and use their public
- >> school system, they won't have much choice either.
-
- Not when 35% of the people speack another language (as is the case in
- Montreal)
-
- >>
- >>+ Sandy writes:
- >>+ Then why is it that the rest of Canada would be considered "racist" if we
- >>+ said only English was allowed in the public schools? French Emersion in
-
- In other parts of Canada, they don't have to have any laws, most people do
- not speak French anyway.
-
- >>+
- >>+ That is boloney!!! The rest of Canada is expected to learn both
-
- Sorry but that is only in theory but in practice most anglophones do
- not speak french (even in Quebec) while most literate francophones speak
- both languages... So the francophones have good reasons to feel threatened.
- >>
- >>+
- >>+ I have gone into stores in Quebec and If you don't speak french you are
- >>+ ignored! Even when the clerks understand English perfectly well. I had
-
- This is not such a bad incident, there are worse examples..
- Your incident reminds me of a funny situation I have been in: I was in the
- airport in Rome and I asked a security person about the information desk,
- I speack no Italian so I asked first in English: " Can you please tell me
- where the INFORMATION desk is?.... INFORMATION? (he said something in Italian
- That mad it clear that he undestood no English, so I said "Information, SVP?
- (in French).. Same answer..
- Knowing how Italian usually sounds (:-)), I guessed "Informationi?.." Well
- it was good enough, because he gave me the directions..
-
- In Quebec, there is less racism IMHO than in Europe, but it still exists.
- What bothers me more is the fact that Xenophobia is more allowed and even
- encouraged by the media while it is just as bad. Xenophobia usually surfaces
- during bad economic conditions (see Germany, France, Belgium, and others..)
- It is usually part of ignorance, and it is immoral for the politicians to
- use that ignorance and even fuel it for political gains.
- Still, they do it all the time.
-
- I think that the Francophones have the right to protect their language, but
- I resent the fact that France was the first one who fueled the Quebec
- conflict when Charles DeGaulle came here and encouraged Quebec nationalism.
-
- I resent more the fact that the French support all the laws that are
- in favor of the French language in Quebec while they protest similar
- laws in their former colonies (the most recent was Algeria)
- where the only difference is that the French language is on the losing end.
-
- I support Francophonization in Quebec and Arabization in Algeria.. Anybody who
- supports one and opposes the other is a hypocrite.
-
- I live in Quebec, I prefer to use English, but have no problem switching
- to French anytime of the day, I send my daughter to a French school, but
- we watch T.V in English most of the time, however I speack only Arabic
- with my daughters.. I do not know what the end result will be, but it seems
- that my children will be trilingual with a preference to Arabic in their
- daily life.
-