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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."

(Excerpt) Read more at beta.theglobeandmail.com ...


TOPICS: Canada; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Syria
KEYWORDS: canada; commonvalues; guide; immigrants; immigration; quebec; quebeccity
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Perhaps the question that should be asked is not why the advice had been offered in such a tone, but why that advice had to be offered at all!
1 posted on 12/26/2016 2:22:26 PM PST by Loyalist
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Exactly what type of newcomers might these folks be expecting? A troop of baboons?


2 posted on 12/26/2016 2:23:46 PM PST by EinNYC
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To: Loyalist

Did they mention refraining from chopping heads off, driving into crowds, blowing up in public, etc?


3 posted on 12/26/2016 2:26:11 PM PST by NewHampshireDuo
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Stinky unwashed incesty migrants? Can I guess?


4 posted on 12/26/2016 2:26:45 PM PST by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat)
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“Murdering infidels is frowned upon, m’kay?”


5 posted on 12/26/2016 2:28:29 PM PST by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: NewHampshireDuo

Those might be the biggest barriers to “fitting in.”


6 posted on 12/26/2016 2:29:47 PM PST by madprof98
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To: Loyalist

Years ago, I was the director of operations at a flight school in Miami. Lotsa students from the Arab countries and Africa. Until they got “The Talk”, they often stunk so bad that you could barely stand being in the same room with them (not to mention a Cessna 152 on a hot day).

The commonly would wear a shirt for a week at a time. Same grease spot, day after day. (Don’t know about everything else.)


7 posted on 12/26/2016 2:30:44 PM PST by QBFimi (It is not your responsibility to finish the work of perfecting the world... Tarfon)
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...for example, refrain from committing incest, wash with soap and use underarm deodorant to “control perspiration and bad odours.”...

Add: no raping or otherwise assaulting local women or small animals.


8 posted on 12/26/2016 2:33:01 PM PST by Sasparilla (I 'm Not Tired Of Winning)
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No, Trudeau's government is too busy majoring on the minor things in life.

Please note that most of the Middle East does have running water and bathroom facilities, at least in the cities. Some bathrooms are even Western style, rather than squat and s...

Now, I suspect that many of the imported Syrians, being old country Muzzies, would take the first request about incest seriously.

9 posted on 12/26/2016 2:35:00 PM PST by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: EinNYC

Muslims.


10 posted on 12/26/2016 2:35:45 PM PST by Lumper20 (Muslims, Latinos, Asians etc. Assimilate means learn English plus OUR WAYS!)
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"For example: Brother + sister = illegal. Parent + child = illegal

Animals = illegal. When told no or stop = illegal. Anyone under 18 = illegal.

Honor killing = illegal. Stoning and beheading = illegal. Murder in any manner = illegal.

Hopping the wide open border into the US = illegal.

11 posted on 12/26/2016 2:35:49 PM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: QBFimi

Imagine the germs on every pencil and paper, desk, plane instruments, restroom, door handle, etc. Ugh.


12 posted on 12/26/2016 2:38:37 PM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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My Grandmother came to this country at the age of 6 months,he father having died of "consumption" (aka:TB) in Ireland a few months earlier.Her mother didn't speak a word of English when she arrived and,I'm told,learned very little before she died.But her kids and grandkids assimilated willingly...enthusiastically in every way.They were Americans.Ireland might as well have been on another planet.

Seems to me that Canada has every right to expect immigrants to assimilate to their culture.That includes learning English (and/or French) and behaving in the same civilized ways that are rightfully expected of Canadians.

Of course assimilation is a dirty word today in the US thanks to the likes of Ted Kennedy (and many others).Don't know if the same is true in Canada but I wouldn't be surprised if it was.

13 posted on 12/26/2016 2:51:07 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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Blunt messaging like this IS necessary with izlamic savages (not the it does much good).


14 posted on 12/26/2016 2:55:05 PM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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A guide to housebreaking your new koranimal.


15 posted on 12/26/2016 3:00:59 PM PST by Stormdog (A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
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“as if they are joining the civilized world for the first time, or have never bathed”

I thought they WERE joining the civilized world for the first time...

Some of MrT5’s relatives live in the area near to Quebec City-they are probably exclaiming Mon Dieu! and turning to walk upwind at their 1st sight-and smell-of these newcomers...


16 posted on 12/26/2016 3:04:25 PM PST by Texan5 (`"You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to drive a hard line"...)
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To: Lumper20
Muslims.

Like I said.

And how wonderful that our neighbors right next door are welcoming these murderers. So handy to infiltrate into our country. We will have to build a wall up north, too.

17 posted on 12/26/2016 3:04:38 PM PST by EinNYC
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You have to feel sorry for Muzzlime women having to welcome stinking sweat-reeking filth like this into their beds. Uck. The stench from the bed linen would probably drop a bull.


18 posted on 12/26/2016 3:07:10 PM PST by EinNYC
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The SOB’s hit the road during war and did not fight for Syria or against it. I damn sure do not want them here.


19 posted on 12/26/2016 3:08:21 PM PST by Lumper20 (Muslims, Latinos, Asians etc. Assimilate means learn English plus OUR WAYS!)
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Muslims have to be taught civilized behavior?

I thought people know that growing up. Silly me.


20 posted on 12/26/2016 3:08:53 PM PST by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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