Racism in Montreal

[CLOUD 500]

Maybe but this specific thread seems to me like it's trolling over nothing. I asked the OP to state exactly what he is talking about rather than cryptically allude to unidentified conclusory statements which that are labelled as "stereotyped" and "racist". He (or she) has been unable to provide the statements so that we can read what the OP is talking about and draw our own conclusions about it.

I say don't feed the trolls. I think the Mods have given similar cautions. I don't want to speak for them but as far as I can tell this is a thread about NOTHING. OP hasn't identified any statements just his or her or their own subjective and perhaps biased conclusions.

I think you are right. The OP was vague. I posted my own experience but I was specific and it was in response to Toto beefcake on why these threads keep on popping up. But in all the years I been on this board, I never started a complaining thread like this.

 

[Hemme]

I wonder why we can’t call french quebecer haters as racists…

I wonder why we can t call anglos stupid cunt haters as racist as well. Guess i will live another day to find out.

 

[envelopes]

I keep hearing about how racist Quebecers are but I have experienced less racism here in Quebec than in NYC, London, or LA (the only 3 cities I lived in for more than 6 months).

I'd say the most racist place I ever stayed in was Madrid or London... they are pretty close.

 

[Chouin95]

It’s Canada here not Switzerland, we’re not European origins or whatever we are Canadians sounds like you just saw a bunch of tourists going at each others.
Stupid and disrespectful people are everywhere, all the time, maybe your expectations about highly educated folks from metropolitan area are wrong after all.

So, me and a few friends of mine have noticed a tendency in Montreal for people to like make really gross racial stereotypes about people of non european origins. While this is something that is usually more typical among the more trashy or more bottom of the barrel elements of society in say Singapore or Dubai, it is pretty accepted in what are seen as even more middle/upper class elements of society here. Like i'd expect these sorts of attitudes to be more common in more rural areas where people are just not very well educated or exposed to other cultures and don't know any better, but like in a metropolitan and diverse city, it's kind of disturbing that these attitudes are even tolerated. It's bad for business, it's trashy, and contributes to a view of quebec as being more backwards/hick from an international businessmen pov.

 

[Fradi]

In all honesty I think Europeans, Americans, Canadians are probably the least racist of all and more tolerant than most.
Many times the people calling racism turn out to be more racist than the ones they are accusing.

You really think racism doesn’t exist anywhere else and it is only people of European origin who are racist.
Wonder how you would be treated as a white European, if you went to live in Iran, Nigeria, Japan, China, India, Pakistan etc….
I am really getting tired of this constant BS.

Like Toto beefcake said I have been called every name in the book first because I didn’t speak English in one country and then by some here because I didn’t speak French, you learn to ignore it, but the huge majority of people treat you the same as everybody else and base their opinions on how you behave not how you look or what language you speak.

 

[Toto beefcake]

In all honesty I think Europeans, Americans, Canadians are probably the least racist of all and more tolerant than most.
Many times the people calling racism turn out to be more racist than the ones they are accusing.

You really think racism doesn’t exist anywhere else and it is only people of European origin who are racist.
Wonder how you would be treated as a white European, if you went to live in Iran, Nigeria, Japan, China, India, Pakistan etc….
I am really getting tired of this constant BS.

Like Toto beefcake said I have been called every name in the book first because I didn’t speak English in one country and then by some here because I didn’t speak French, you learn to ignore it, but the huge majority of people treat you the same as everybody else and base their opinions on how you behave not how you look or what language you speak.

And id say morals and values play a big role in that as well

 

[Halloween Mike]

Always finding it amusing when watching a Habs game on TV, French, French, French, French, He shoots, he scores

Never heard a french descriptors says "he shoot he score". Pierre House always says "le tir et le buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut" and even tough i don't really watch TVA Sports much, i often heard "il lance et compte"

Anyway to get back into subject. I think it resort to a few things. The first is Trudeau's flood of immigration. He exagerated and this really trigger a lot of peoples. I think especially as French Quebecer we already feel like we in constant battle to keep our identity in an English country, so when you add other cultures in the mix (who will often assimilate more into english if they want to assimilate at all), it does not help.

Then you have certain peoples behaviors like the peoples who took dumps in Ontario's beach, they give a bad rep to many more peoples sadly, even if its underserved. And of course i can't pass upon the current conflict in the middle east coupled with the rise of terrorisms/terror organizations since 9/11. When i see the "pro-palestine" protest in the streets (as they called them on the news, but lets be honest, its more a rally call for antisemitism and hate) it really makes my blood boil. We are in a troubled time.

I also feel certain communities are extremely more demanding than others. I am not the biggest fan of the chinese communist party or how things are run in that country, but i feel chinese who comes to Montreal to have a better life often seem extremely friendly and nice in general. I often had some try to speak to me in french even tough it was very basic and i was the one saying "its ok we can switch to english". At least they made the effort.

But other communities have more of a "conquering" nature in general, and a lot don't wanna escape their countries for a better life but rather to create a better version (in their opinion) of that said country.

Its a very triggering subject in general and im sure sooner or later this thread will be close, hopefully all i said came out "fine enough".

Ultimately i always said i judge peoples on their actions, not on skin color. And i think skin color is the dumbest ways to judge peoples. It mean nothing. I condemn as much anyone who participate in these Gaza protest whatever their skin color, as its their actions i consider absolutely terrible.