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Re: Man gets apology from Montreal transit ... ' they don't serve English peole ' |
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Posted by Greg_UWS on Wed Aug 1 23:07:26 2012, in response to Man gets apology from Montreal transit ... ' they don't serve English peole ', posted by Gold_12TH on Mon Jul 30 17:32:04 2012. /sigh/ A little sociology lesson might be helpful here. People who've lived under oppression, yes, can be a bit "sensitive". Example: although relations between Ireland and England are much improved, go to one of the Irish pubs in the Bx and they're still singing, "We'll spit on the Queen and bash in her head." LOL! On the one hand, we want to say, "GET OVER IT." But maybe we don't know or feel what they know or feel.Recall that thousands of French Canadians from the eastern provinces were literally forced into the Atlantic by the Brits and sailed around until someone allowed them in. (They're today's Cajuns [i.e. Acadians] in Louisiana.) Until the 1930s, Montreal-- Montreal!!-- was majority English speaking and the French had GREAT jobs as maids, butlers and servants-- IF they spoke English. Like the Irish in the Bronx, sometimes it takes a while to "get over it." And most French in Canada HAVE gotten over it. But what group doesn't have its hotheads? (i.e., like the member here who proclaimed that the "morons in Quebec... are racist," failing to grasp the irony of his own words...) |
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