Submitted by wojtekthesoldierbear t3_11x6vn8 in newhampshire
schtroumpf t1_jd37s9j wrote
Reply to comment by VinsonChe90 in French towns in the Northeast? by wojtekthesoldierbear
So then what does that have to do with hating Americans
VinsonChe90 t1_jd38iez wrote
Quebec also tends to have a lot of antisemitism as well. Your experience isn’t mine.
schtroumpf t1_jd3ijcy wrote
Of course it isn’t — but I lived in Quebec for four years and was a tourist there many times in my youth with my Anglophone-only family. You made a sweeping point about Americans being disliked and a factually incorrect statement about language laws. As far as my experience goes, and the experiences of the many other people I know from the US who’ve lived there, Quebec is a wonderful, safe, and welcoming place for Americans to visit, almost all the time. You may well have experienced something negative, but your extrapolation is unfounded and slightly defamatory. All places have shitty people, and sometimes tourists get the shaft— it’s not unique to QC. Additionally, it shows your ignorance of Quebec culture and history to act as though their reluctance to pander to Anglo or France-French myopia indicates hatred or an inhospitable nature. And while your experience of antisemitism may be real, it is neither here nor there in respect to the original point, which is that Americans generally are somehow unwelcome.
VinsonChe90 t1_jd38djx wrote
I was born and raised in America and grew up speaking French with my father. Just because I speak a dialect from France doesn’t mean I’m from France. When you have to flash your passport to get a drink, they find out you’re American.
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