Because they have not come into the 21 century and have kept all the
predujeces of the past alive.
On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 15:44:31 GMT, "Len McLaughlin" <len_at_nospam.com>
wrote:
>Does any Quebecois still believe that the Jews have horns?
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>"Bidoux" <bidoux_at_videotron.fr> wrote in message
>news:4025B079.C751C44C_at_videotron.fr...
>How Others Have Viewed French Canadians and Quebec
>
>Quebec Now - Chapter 13 : The Minorities
>By Miriam Chapin
>>
>>
>There are curious hangovers of mediaeval beliefs among the French
>Canadians. A Jewish friend of mine went to a French Canadian home to
>hire the sixteen-year-old daughter of the house as a nursemaid. The girl
>kept staring at her hair. Finally my friend put up her hand uneasily,
>and asked if it were untidy. The girl giggled and said, "Oh no. I was
>just wondering about your horns. The sisters told us all Jews had little
>horns on their foreheads that they hid under their hair. But yours is so
>smooth, and I can't see any"
>>
>>
>Source: Miriam CHAPIN, Quebec Now, Toronto, The Ryerson Press, 1955, pp.
>155-172.
>
>© 2000 Claude Bélanger, Marianopolis College
>
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