Why are French-Canadians so arrogant?

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RICK

Great question because I've always wondered why them and even the French in France are arrogant. I think you're right about the envy

countpetez

If you can't understand something than label it, that's what most ignorant people do because it is easier than finding out for yourself. If everything you know comes from late-night talk shows you are bound to have a lot of opinions that are given to you. Go there with an idea of learning something and you may gain a different insight.

ana_1

well said sheridanw and countpete, you have good points. Being ignorant won't help you. what people say doesn't mean that's true.
I don't thinl that French Canadians are arrogant and want to be like France.
Just want to say that your question is a little bit arrogant.

Goddess of Grammar

I'm from Montreal (English-speaking though) and have met French-Canadians with plenty of bad qualities (and others or also with plenty of good qualities), but the only one I can think of that I would ever call arrogant would be Pierre Trudeau. (Who was a quarter English I believe) (OK I didn't really meet him, but I passed him on the street one day when I was in university and he was probably 75; I smiled at him and he smiled back and I swooned.)

Sorry, what was the question? I went to his funeral too but only in the crowds outside.

I just thought of another arrogant French-Canadian, and one of the things that people thought arrogant about him (he was a high-school teacher so mostly his students) was that he *did* seem to try to emulate the French, had a very French (as opposed to Quebecois) accent (in French). And that he taught English, probably.

I'm wondering from where (if anywhere) you got your idea that French-Canadians are arrogant?

wyldcatt76

So we should strike out at people because of their origins now. That is a sad situation. I have known many French Canadians and have not found them to be arrogant, in fact all the ones I have known have been very warm and friendly. Maybe this phrase applies here, "You get what you give", people treat you as you treat them and if you are behaving stuck up and arrogant than that is how they will behave towards you. C'est la vie. Bonne soir est bonne chance mes amie.

sheridanwhiskey

I want to answer you just to tell you something...I am french Quebecois and my husband is American English. First, i try to do my best when i need to speak english but people are friendly with me because when i do a mistake when i speak i tell my friend to correct me and tell me the good word and the pronunciation. If i tell you that it's just to say don't be racism. Everywhere you will go you gonna find different style of personality. I am not arrogant and for French from France it's the same as an Italian from Italy. You can't put all Quebecois in the same bag, i don't know if you understand what i mean, but first i was proud because i am human and human is more intelligent as a bug and be sure I am not arrogant because who i am to say I am more intelligent as a Mexican or an other people in they other country. I like talk with everybody and i like learn about their country and the history, for me no one is more intelligent as they other. P.S Sorry for my bad English but please understand i try to do my best as same as my husband are American. When i married him, he told me that he want learn more french because here like you know the first language is French, but i practice English and more i practice English and more i speak well. So i want tell you someting, my sister in law she came from China so it's mean that we are not racist.
Take care to you and have a good week. friendly L.M

wanna_help_u

It's the French part that makes them that way !!!
No offense, but that's what people say...
I personally have some very good friends up in Quebec City and Toronto and they are really nice and friendly..

a_gyno_guy

It is a defensive mechanism that all cultures use who are truly afraid that you will discover that they are afraid...