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- From: duquet@astro.phy.ulaval.ca (Jean-Remi Duquet)
- Subject: Re: Tolerance in Quebec (was Re: Political system 'axes')
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.204153.1780@cerberus.ulaval.ca>
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- Organization: Universite Laval, Ste-Foy, Qc, Canada
- References: <20JAN93.10484054.0076@VM1.MCGILL.CA> <1993Jan21.095755.18407@spxtech.qc.ca>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:41:53 GMT
- Lines: 38
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- In article <1993Jan21.095755.18407@spxtech.qc.ca> steven@spxtech.qc.ca (Steve Potter) writes:
- >From article <20JAN93.10484054.0076@VM1.MCGILL.CA>, by CZ94 <CZ94@MUSICA.MCGILL.CA> Tom writes:-
- >
- >> Even concerning language, most
- >> Quebecers, both anglo and franco (and allo), are quite tolerant in
- >> everyday life. In one-on-one conversations, most of us do our
- >> best to communicate in whatever language is mutually convenient.
- >
- >Agreed. (Pretty much).
-
- In fact it's a famous social trend in Quebec; francos have a strange
- tendency to switch all conversations to english when a single anglo
- enters a group. This syndrome is even funnier when the anglo speaks a
- little french (but won't use it because he don't like to feel like a
- twit who can't speak correctly) and some francos speak a less than fluent
- english.
-
- The other side of it is that many anglos (Canadians or Staters ((was there
- an agreement on this name???)) ) who come here don't feel like going through
- the trouble of learning french. :(
-
- >I am in contact with a number of anglophone families whose children have
- >had, and are having, severe problems as a result of being forced to
- >attend french schools in Quebec. That is NOT to say that there is anything
- >wrong with french schools. I mean that these children have problems as a
- >result of being placed in an environment that is totally foreign to them.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- Hmmm. I don't want to start this all over again, but how can a french
- environment be "totally foreign" to quebecers, unless of course they're
- just arrived from some other place ? That's (sort of) exactly the
- traditional complaint against anglo-quebecers: a lot of them USED
- to live here as if there was an aquarium wall between them and francos.
- (try to see how weird it would be for (say) a franco manitoban to call
- english schools a totally foreign environment...)
-
- Jean-Remi Duquet
-
-