Posted on 02/02/2020 4:52:13 AM PST by hoagy62
“ Go to Quebec City some time and try to order in English at a restaurant there.You will see the results of a lack of freedom and immediate social sanctions for your “Anglophile ignorance,”
doubly so if you reveal yourself as American or British.And Canada is supposed to be a free country? What a laugh.”
Funny, I’ve had a different experience with that, even during the last time they tried to separate from the rest of Canada.
There are English speaking Canadians who refuse to speak a word of French even if they know the language. The Québécois know this and are nasty right back if someone doesn’t even try. But if they find out you are a Yank and give it even a feeble attempt at French they have always loved that. Sometimes all it took was a”Bonjour....sorry but I’m an American that doesn’t speak French” to get a big smile back.
Well, knock it off.
Go to the old city of Quebec. Where there are no tourists. Off the beaten path, or way outside the city into the shire towns. You will have a very different experience. No English is ever spokem there my FRiend.
glad you have had a great experience. But you also had a very shallow experience.
Nope... I was never that far off of the beaten path!
For the most part the general French populace North of the Saint Lawrence river are incredibly conservative, protective of their culture and their language. They can be very unfriendly, especially of one is English and is purchasing real estate in the country areas.
The Socilist communist French hail from the urban environments
and together they make a political cocktail which can result in being very offensive to Anglophones who visit.
I am glad you did not run in to them.
My take is that I get along well with French People.But the politicians ? I do not have anything in common with them at all.They continue to economically divide Canada, holding back an entire nation.
Canadians are generally bitter about that in the Maritimes and in Western Canada.Canada has no equivalent of of US Federal Commerce Claus.That bird may one day come home to roost in a civil war or conflict, now postponed.
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