In the English community, discrimination is unofficial. It comes out in the
refusal to
rent a house, in the removal of a child from her part in a
school play where she was
to be the Virgin Mary, in the "personal interview" required
for entrance to medical
school, in the denial of promotion in business, the slow
acceptance of professional
work. Yet Jewish citizens have contributed much to the arts,
and as always are in
the forefront of charitable work.
Len McLaughlin a écrit :
> Does any Quebecois still believe that the Jews have horns?
> =====
> "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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