Friday, November 13, 2015

Main difference between French and French-Canadian

Most people who move to Montreal ask this question:What's the main difference between Quebec people and Anglo-Saxon?). 
I am born in France and move to QC when I was nine and was shocked to see how different french speaking were from anglo-saxon quebecers when I started working. The aim here is to help French people to better understand Quebec society if they migrate, the main goal of this blog http://fr2qc.blogspot.ca/
My take is related to their core value system (learn it from reading on anthropology):
  • French think/are brainwash and think the society enforce equality (same chances + always there to help with a social security net) so even if you are lazy the society will take care of you. 
  • English think/understand the world is in-equal and if you don't fight/work there is no limit how down you can get
This core/deep value has a massive impact on people behavior. I personally think inequality is a better model in trouble times but equality illusion lead people to be more free/more creative + able to take more risk which is why mixing the 2 culture is so powerful. 
Of course adding Catholic church of top didn't help at all (money = devil). 
At least, the affordable education system is a gift to Qc society in the long run. 

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