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I'd surmise that places like Sherbrooke, Granby, St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, etc. near the border are as culturally different from places like Burlington, VT and Plattsburgh, NY as U.S. border cities like Laredo, Browsville, etc. would be from Mexican cities across the border. The culture of Mexico is much more present along the south-central and south-western portions of the U.S. than French Canadian culture is in the northeastern States.
Even though obviously the socio-economic differences are stark when crossing the Rio Grande, and not really evident when you cross the 45th parallel (border between Quebec and the U.S.)
Have you been here or not? Quebec will feel about as foreign to an American as France does to a Brit or to a German.
I am getting tired of hearing that Quebec is pretty much the same thing as the U.S. Unfortunately, it's a widespread misconception. I suppose it's because many who go to Quebec stick around the anglophone areas of downtown Montreal. Saint-Jean-sur-Richlieu is a lot more different from Burlington than Laredo is from Mexican border towns. South Texas is filled with Mexicans and the Spanish language thanks to mass immigration.
Americans probably have more in common (beyond a superficial level) with a German than your typical outside-of-Montreal-proper Quebecois. They are a very different group of people, but most Americans and English Canadians never get a real glimpse of them due to effects of the language barrier.
I am getting tired of hearing that Quebec is pretty much the same thing as the U.S. Unfortunately, it's a widespread misconception. I suppose it's because many who go to Quebec stick around the anglophone areas of downtown Montreal. Saint-Jean-sur-Richlieu is a lot more different from Burlington than Laredo is from Mexican border towns. South Texas is filled with Mexicans and the Spanish language thanks to mass immigration.
Americans probably have more in common (beyond a superficial level) with a German than your typical outside-of-Montreal-proper Quebecois. They are a very different group of people, but most Americans and English Canadians never get a real glimpse of them due to effects of the language barrier.
Doubt it. Half my family is francophone. I think many of which are actually from Val d'Or, the Sudbury equivalent of Quebec. They're no different culturally from anyone else I know on my English side, other than the fact that they also speak French.
Doubt it. Half my family is francophone. I think many of which are actually from Val d'Or, the Sudbury equivalent of Quebec. They're no different culturally from anyone else I know on my English side, other than the fact that they also speak French.
With some notable exceptions, francophone Canadians living outside Quebec aren't really culturally typical of French Canadians, as most of the latter live in Quebec in a francophone environment.
With some notable exceptions, francophone Canadians living outside Quebec aren't really culturally typical of French Canadians, as most of the latter live in Quebec in a francophone environment.
From Val d'Or.
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