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Quebec City guide to help integrate newcomers derided as insulting, infantilizing
Globe and Mail ^ | December 26, 2016 | Jacques Boissonot

Posted on 12/26/2016 2:22:26 PM PST by Loyalist

Immigrants who settle in Quebec City are being offered a new guide to explain local customs, and the authors spare no detail in telling the newcomers how to fit in – for example, refrain from committing incest, wash with soap and use underarm deodorant to "control perspiration and bad odours."

The guide from city hall was made public last week and has already been condemned as insulting and paternalistic. ..... Quebec City is one of 13 municipalities across Quebec designated by the province to settle refugees from Syria. While Montreal remains the overwhelming destination of choice for newcomers, more than 550 state-sponsored refugees landed in Quebec City, 400 of them from Syria.

To help them integrate, city hall unveiled a guide last week, "Québec, Une ville pour moi" (Quebec City, A city for me) that spells out "common values" and ways of life in the province's second-largest city. Some of the values, such as the equality of men and women, are commonly recognized in Canada. Other rules in the booklet, whose contents were first reported in Le Journal de Québec, seem to treat newcomers as if they are joining the civilized world for the first time, or have never bathed.

The section on "Hygiene and body care," which is accompanied by a diagram of a dark-haired man with a beard, advises brushing one's teeth at least twice a day "with a toothbrush and toothpaste." Hand-washing is a must, "especially after going to the bathroom," among other occasions. Socks and underwear should be washed after each use. And when washing one's body, "pay particular attention to underarms, feet and intimate parts."

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TOPICS: Canada; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Syria
KEYWORDS: canada; commonvalues; guide; immigrants; immigration; quebec; quebeccity
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To: bgill

Oh, c’mon, all cultures are equal, right?


21 posted on 12/26/2016 3:25:29 PM PST by Bigg Red (To Thee, O Lord, I lift my soul. Thank you for saving our Republic.)
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To: Loyalist

I found one of the offended:

“It’s a good idea to prepare something intelligent to help immigrants, but the way it was done is infantilizing,” Anne Guérette, municipal opposition leader in Quebec City, said on Sunday.

The name of the opposition is a female Marxist ape called “Anne Guérette.”

The good citizens of Quebec City need to tally an immediate census to determine if one of their female apes escaped from the zoo. If not, Anne Guérette needs to be thrown in the zoo with her fellow apes.


22 posted on 12/26/2016 3:26:26 PM PST by sergeantdave (Cats are like potato chips - you can't have just one...)
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To: Loyalist

Funny. One of my best friends is from valencia Spain and he immigrated to Montreal off all places. What makes him unique is that he did NOT know a word of English NOR French so for a 12 year old boy to overcome everything on his own is no small feat. Everyone knows once you get out of Montreal’s city limits, everything is in Fwench...


23 posted on 12/26/2016 3:28:15 PM PST by max americana (For the 9th time FIRED LIBERALS from our company at this election, and every election since 2008)
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To: Gay State Conservative

American immigrants in the early 1900s were held in quarantine on Ellis Island. The society ladies sponsored Settlement Houses which taught ‘modern’ living. The Settlement Cookbook was one of their projects.

All four of my grandparents were immigrants. All except my paternal grandmother learned English to an acceptable or better degree. My paternal grandfather spoke, read and could write 5 languages, including English and Spanish. His family spent 9 years in Argentina, which was the only country then that didn’t charge for a visa.

On my mother’s side, both grands came over at 18 and were allowed in as workers. The other side had 2 kids and grandma was pregnant, so a sponsor, a job + a visa were required. 6 kids combined in my parents’ generation, all assimilated, all were enthusiastic Americans. They even refused to teach us Russian, Yiddish or Lithuanian because they didn’t want us to be greenhorns. I picked up some Yiddish, but by the time my brother was born 5 years later, they stopped using it around us, so I forgot.

These people came from rural areas with dirt floors and weekly baths, wood heat and wood cook stoves. They were all born in the 19th century in Eastern Europe. They figured things out quickly. They wouldn’t discuss life in Europe. If I asked, the answer was “It’s better here.” End of discussion.


24 posted on 12/26/2016 3:28:39 PM PST by reformedliberal
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Are they talking about Syrians or French?


25 posted on 12/26/2016 3:31:12 PM PST by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: Loyalist

Maybe they should have invited Ivanka instead. I hear she looks like she smells nice.


26 posted on 12/26/2016 3:44:47 PM PST by sportutegrl
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To: Loyalist
Quebec City guide to help integrate newcomers derided as insulting, infantilizing

So in other words, appropriate for it's target audience.

27 posted on 12/26/2016 3:48:48 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: reformedliberal
They wouldn’t discuss life in Europe. If I asked, the answer was “It’s better here.” End of discussion.

Exactly! Eastern Europe and Ireland were both difficult places in which to live 100+ years ago."It's better here" was the typical attitude of immigrants back then regardless of what horrible place they came from.OTOH,if the democrats have their way it won't be long before we'll be dialing "1" for Spanish,"2" for Chinese,"3" for Arabic and "4" for English.

And it sounds like Canada might be headed in the same general direction.

28 posted on 12/26/2016 3:55:49 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: Loyalist

The terrorists have been driven out of Aleppo so it’s safe for these refugees to return home. There’s lots of work for them there.


29 posted on 12/26/2016 4:52:41 PM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: EinNYC

Yes. But asking them to refrain from committing incest, wash with soap and use underarm deodorant to “control perspiration and bad odors is asking a lot.


30 posted on 12/26/2016 5:41:03 PM PST by Uncle Sam 911
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To: EinNYC
Muslims. Not the most hygienic of people. Arab Muslims anyway.
31 posted on 12/26/2016 5:46:01 PM PST by jmacusa (Election 2016. The Battle of Midway for The Democrat Party.)
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To: reformedliberal

“”dirt floors and weekly baths, wood heat and wood cook stoves””

Probably not so much different from other elders on this site. Except for the “dirt floors”, I grew up with all of the above in upstate NY!


32 posted on 12/26/2016 5:46:08 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: EinNYC

The Muzzlime women smell worse than the men do. Deodorant and perfume doesn’t work if you don’t bathe occasionally.


33 posted on 12/26/2016 8:56:45 PM PST by B4Ranch (Conservatives own 200,000,000 guns and a trillion rounds of ammo. If we were violent you'd know it.)
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To: Loyalist

Just enlightening and enriching culture, aren’t they?


34 posted on 12/27/2016 2:58:40 AM PST by vpintheak (Freedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
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To: Thank You Rush

I grew up outside a city in Illinois in the 1940s, then we moved to town in the early 50s. Never lived without plumbing/power, though.

In 1975, my husband and I moved to rural WI and I encountered people who lived just as you say, even then. I had no idea there were still places where indoor plumbing wasn’t universal. It came to the rural part of our present county in 1967 or so. I think they had electric power, though.

There were people who signed their counter checks at the bank with an X and many who had never been more than 50 miles from home, if that. Yet, they raised their own food, cut their own fuel and managed to live their lives. But it all seemed exotic and like something from the distant past or a foreign country.


35 posted on 12/27/2016 6:23:49 AM PST by reformedliberal
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