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Bill 101, the Education System, and the Power of Cultural Persuasion

A lot of people who live in Quebec have stated that you won't make it by in this province unless you learn or speak French.  Included there are exceptions; some tight-knit communities, reclusive as they may be, that differentiate from the French-Canadian mainstream have made it through family employment or labor jobs that do not require french communication.  In these employment area's there is usually at least one person who can speak the native language relative to the mentioned minority's mother tongue.  This is a primary reason for why minorities who do not speak the relative language to Quebecors, the French Canadian language, can be a part of the economy while so pertinently avoiding the vast society that promotes itself as culturally significant.  Cultural Minorities are more common, and to some degree, increasingly integrating into the French Canadian society while giving off an impression of their own culture at the same time....