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Re:For Quebec, a French Woman May Not Be French Enough by frabbit on Sunday November 10, 2019 @11:12AM (#21498553)
The attitude you display in this post suggests that it's a good thing for everyone that you moved. Quebecers are actually very tolerant of Anglophones and while it is difficult to adapt to using a new language it is not impossible and is actually fun in many ways.

French survives in a sea of anglophone hegemony only because of such language laws.

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Re:For Quebec, a French Woman May Not Be French Enough by benjohnson on Sunday November 10, 2019 @11:39AM (#21498696)
>>Quebecers are actually very tolerant of Anglophones

I can vouch for that - if you make any attempt at all to speak the most basic French they love you for making the attempt.

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Re:For Quebec, a French Woman May Not Be French Enough by angry_octet on Sunday November 10, 2019 @03:17PM (#21499930)
Try wearing a turban.
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Re:For Quebec, a French Woman May Not Be French Enough by kalenx on Sunday November 10, 2019 @03:38PM (#21500058)
Well, it depends. If you want a dispense to wear a hard hat of a construction site because of your turban then yes, this may come as a problem: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-court-of-appe...
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Re:For Quebec, a French Woman May Not Be French Enough by angry_octet on Sunday November 10, 2019 @05:25PM (#21500588)
If you were in Québec you couldn't miss seeing all the anti-Singh (NDP leader who happens to be Sikh) comments, many referring to his turban.

(It is now illegal in QC to be a public servant and wear e.g. a turban, yarmulke, crucifix, etc. Public buildings are still adorned with crucifexes and saint's names for reasons of 'cultural respect'.)

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Re:For Quebec, a French Woman May Not Be French Enough by angry_octet on Sunday November 10, 2019 @03:03PM (#21499856)
This is the distillation of the delusional Québec separatist view.

It kills innovation and economic development, and leads to the rampant religious discrimination and xenophobia now seen in the province.

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