On the whole I don't feel that welcome when I go through Quebec so I can kind of see why he would become attached to any of the natives who are friendly and speak sort of the same language :P
Perhaps I should qualify my above statement about not feeling welcome... just so that I don't catch a beating next time I see you :) I would never say that any group or place is homogenous by any stretch... I just find that almost every time I go through Quebec some yokel or another seems to be offended by my presence.
Last time it was in a Walmart of all places where I was trying to find some cheap and fast replacement shoes since my one pair had been soaked through the previous day. So at about 8:30am Walmart was pretty nearly the only thing open and I'm looking around and find something that isn't too ugly and look for a place to try them on so I ask a guy who had been using a bench to try on a pair of shoes if he was done with it... to which he responded "You don't speak French?!" and promptly walked off in a huff. Now I'm the first to admit I'm not the friendliest guy at 8:30... but that seemed a little much.
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Date: 2003-05-01 11:36 am (UTC)Perhaps I should qualify my above statement about not feeling welcome... just so that I don't catch a beating next time I see you :) I would never say that any group or place is homogenous by any stretch... I just find that almost every time I go through Quebec some yokel or another seems to be offended by my presence.
Last time it was in a Walmart of all places where I was trying to find some cheap and fast replacement shoes since my one pair had been soaked through the previous day. So at about 8:30am Walmart was pretty nearly the only thing open and I'm looking around and find something that isn't too ugly and look for a place to try them on so I ask a guy who had been using a bench to try on a pair of shoes if he was done with it... to which he responded "You don't speak French?!" and promptly walked off in a huff. Now I'm the first to admit I'm not the friendliest guy at 8:30... but that seemed a little much.