Why are Canadians from Quebec less willing to tolerate worker accomodations for minorities?

Question

Quebec is bizarre in this way, is it not? Quebecans are very tolerant in terms of marrying Africans, African Americans, and peoples of nations that have at one time been influenced by French culture, right?

But when it comes to culture and corporate culture, the philosophy seems to be "learn and adapt, or go elsewhere".

This is distinct from say Ontario, BC, or even the Praire provinces?

What is the deal with Quebec?

Hower

Answer 1

You're so right!

Arrogance,that's their problem. I'm avoiding Quebec.

Answer 2

First of all, it is ''Quebecers'' and not ''Quebecans''.

Second of all, Ella's answer is so full of misconceptions, prejudice and xenophobic claims that I can't help but reply to her. First observation: I don't think you've lived in Quebec long enough to understand its people, and that excludes English-speaking Montreal, which is not Quebec. Your views are the same we hear from the ignorant bunch who take pleasure in criticizing Quebecers without even having set foot in the province.

''They feel they have been minimized in all other parts of Canada so they are desperate to hang on to what they believe they have, and that has resulted in extremes out of misunderstanding, fear and paranoia.''

- We're not desperate, we're circa 7 million French-speakers surrounded by 24 million English-speakers to the west and east and circa 300 million to the south. Have you ever even lived in such a minority situation? If not, then you can't understand.

''That anxiety is so ingrained in French culture, it's pretty much a Pavlovian reflex to respond with nationalist attitudes, which I believe to have inadvertently caused racism they do not recognize in themselves (their ego, resulting from a necessity to be strong in order to "survive", won't permit an honesty in self-judgement where they can admit they are racist).''

- The ego you so confidently refer to, exists in all nations. You might want to travel more or live in some other country than your own to notice IT. Yes, we are proud to have kept our French language and culture (they go together) for four centuries now, and any people of this world would be proud of that feat. Considering we were conquered by the British and are once again, surrounded by an ''English sea'', we could have very well been assimilated 30 years ago. In some countries, people are prouder for even less time.

''Having lived their myself, I have seen the extreme nationalism and arrogant superiority that Quebecers convey. They are bitter; they have for so many years carried a grudge, and their anger has clouded their capacity to judge and thereby understand outsiders; it is in fact a parnaoia.''

- Let me ask, where have you lived exactly? No, it is not paranoia, it is called wanting our identity to survive. Go ask the Basque, go ask the Corsicans, or the Catalans, or the Belgians, who have been going through a national crisis for the past year, threats of separation coming from both sides.

''More importantly, Quebec is home to an older generation of conservative catholics. Church is an older institution and has been responsible in ingraining conservative attitudes, including a level of racism. Their isolating has preventing an understanding, and they live in a very black and white world.

In this case, "protecting their culture" is an excuse for their holding on of prejudices and engaging in hate.''

- No, the Roman Catholic Church made us a backward conventional and conservative society, who stayed on the countryside and feared industrialization, for the longest time, before we kicked them out of societal affairs with the Quiet Revolution in the 1960's. Few people of the world have done the same, so drastically, read about it. There ARE more intolerant people towards immigration and yes, they are mostly part of the older generation but this phenomenon, you will find everywhere.

Quebec's Immigration Policy is indeed different than from the rest of the country, and it is indeed conditioned by the fact that we are a minority. We favour French-speaking immigrants and understandably so. And I agree with this mentality. You have CHOSEN to move to Quebec and therefore you must accept that we are primarily French-speaking (French also being the official language of the province) and that our culture is French.

I don't think that is paranoia nor xenophobia. If you choose to immigrate elsewhere, it is your DUTY to accept the laws and values of that country and to live by them. If you're not happy, then go elsewhere, that is just plain common sense. The Quebec Government will give immigrant FREE French lessons, FREE resources in order to help them adapt to their new environment. And BY THE WAY, we don't only welcome French-speaking immigrants and moreover, there are MANY immigrants in Quebec who have chosen to learn English and not French (in Montreal) and we don't go and arrest them, come on now.

The overwhelming tolerance we witness today with immigration allows for ghettoization and parallel societies that we see more and more nowadays, and I'm sorry but those are problems.

I don't consider Ontario any more tolerant than Quebec, they are simply and have always been made up of more ethnic groups than us and that is actually THEIR culture.

Saying that Quebecers are xenophobic French freaks is just like saying everyone from the Prarie Provinces is a redneck.

Answer 3

Because they believe they are a "distinct society" and feel that accomodating minorities would dilute the francophone social/cultural landscape.  They feel they have been minimized in all other parts of Canada so they are desperate to hang on to what they believe they have, and that has resulted in extremes out of misunderstanding, fear and paranoia.

That anxiety is so ingrained in French culture, it's pretty much a Pavlovian reflex to respond with nationalist attitudes, which I believe to have inadvertently caused racism they do not recognize in themselves (their ego, resulting from a necessity to be strong in order to "survive", won't permit an honesty in self-judgement where they can admit they are racist).

Having lived their myself, I have seen the extreme nationalism and arrogant superiority that Quebecers convey.  They are bitter; they have for so many years carried a grudge, and their anger has clouded their capacity to judge and thereby understand outsiders; it is in fact a parnaoia.

More importantly, Quebec is home to an older generation of conservative catholics.  Church is an older institution and has been responsible in ingraining conservative attitudes, including a level of racism.  Their isolating has preventing an understanding, and they live in a very black and white world.

In this case, "protecting their culture" is an excuse for their holding on of prejudices and engaging in hate.