ac500
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I like their french fries with cheese sauce and stuff.
As far as I'm aware, no one at all...
Interesting. I'm guessing Montreal is a bit multicultural like many other major cities?
I like their french fries with cheese sauce and stuff.
Off topic, I'm anxious for someone to compare the HD700 with the HD650/600 and note the differences.
It depends on your expectations about multiculturalism. You can certainly find many immigrants who preserved part of their lifestyle there. But it also is a very stereotypical sort of multiculturalism. As a French, I was nearly expected to walk around with a beret on the head and a baguette in my arms. On the other hand it's pretty hard in Montreal to have access to real, fundamental and deep-rooted foreign cultures. Foreign cinema for example is practically non existent. Another example could be the Jazz festival, which, despite drawing artists from everywhere in the world, lacks edge and doesn't represent well the latest evolutions of jazz music. So instead of describing it as a multicultural city, I'd rather call it a globish city, with the sort of culture everybody from anywhere in the world can easily grasp, enjoy or even participate in. On the other hand Montreal itself produced some rather authentic (do I sound like a hipster using that word ? I'm sorry) cultural aspects - I think it's a great place for example for graffitis enthusiasts.
I didn't say Renaissance French was an elegant or ugly sounding language. I just said that it's likely Quebec French is truer to the old French than today's European French, ugly or beautiful, that's your judgement .
Very accessible. Anyway, even if you had troubles with the language, I think most Quebeckers are so nice and welcoming it's like they descend from the Care Bears.
Especially downtown, pretty much everything's bilingual in Montreal.
It depends on your expectations about multiculturalism. You can certainly find many immigrants who preserved part of their lifestyle there. But it also is a very stereotypical sort of multiculturalism. As a French, I was nearly expected to walk around with a beret on the head and a baguette in my arms. On the other hand it's pretty hard in Montreal to have access to real, fundamental and deep-rooted foreign cultures. Foreign cinema for example is practically non existent. Another example could be the Jazz festival, which, despite drawing artists from everywhere in the world, lacks edge and doesn't represent well the latest evolutions of jazz music. So instead of describing it as a multicultural city, I'd rather call it a globish city, with the sort of culture everybody from anywhere in the world can easily grasp, enjoy or even participate in. On the other hand Montreal itself produced some rather authentic (do I sound like a hipster using that word ? I'm sorry) cultural aspects - I think it's a great place for example for graffitis enthusiasts.
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