If you just try to make use of their language, they will be friendly people. I imagine that all of those 'Death to English!' signs were made out of irritation with the English speaking tourists who, on discovering (after speaking English to them) that the Quebecois do not, in fact, speak English, yell louder in English to try to make them understand.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A lot of them are billingual anyway. Especially in places like Montreal.

 

If you just try to make use of their language, they will be friendly people. I imagine that all of those 'Death to English!' signs were made out of irritation with the English speaking tourists who, on discovering (after speaking English to them) that the Quebecois do not, in fact, speak English, yell louder in English to try to make them understand.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A lot of them are billingual anyway. Especially in places like Montreal.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Also, half of the maritime people I knew were billingual.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I can understand people getting angry because of the english yelling, but please. The town I live in now, people come up from Mexico to fish, and yell in spanish, but if we put a 'Die Spanish!' we'd get arrested.

Okay, so in school today we were talking about rascism. People said Colored and White people are rascist to each other, that Natives and Europeans were rascist to each other, but nobody mentioned Quebec.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Has any Anglophones been to Quebec?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

They are very, very anti-english. They have posters saying 'Death to English!' in the Subway, if you talk in English they will not serve you, people are sweet if you talk in their language, but if not, then get out of there.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now, I may be wrong, but isn't this rascism? Being kind to someone because they speak your language and only that?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I mean, I know in the past we (Canadiens) were horrible to the French, but that's no reason for English speaking people to feel uncomfortable when they speak the language they know of, and get dirty looks because of it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Discuss.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

YES!!! Ive been waiting for this topic a long time. Im a quebecker, born in Laval, but moved to Ontario at a=get 2. I recently moved back and ppl at my school piss me off pretty bad. Theres this kid that always called me l

when I went up to canada last year I noticed that french speaking persons (not all) were quite disrespectful to english speaking individuals. There was a very snobbish attitude to put it mildly and I was just in the ontario area.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Where in Ontario?