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Hello everybody
you see what I’m going to do I come
to greet you here I think that all the
world understood what I meant
hello in some parts of the world
we say hello the same way in France
we give ourselves to bize in tibet we will shoot
the language and in some tribes
from east africa
we will spit at our feet
interlocutor and not that we do not have all
the same cultural codes as we can
see but there are similar ones if
I redo the first sign I tell you
rail nor to aulas you understand not
necessarily what I say but because
that you recognize yourself the sign you
know what I mean
on the other hand if someone arrives and
start giving you kisses on
cheeks well you do not know who wants
say hi
you will think that this person has
a little too affectionate
if someone from the mayor make you
funny faces
you’re going risk you have to risk
think it’s a comic here
someone spit at you
risk being insulted so we do not have
all the same cultural codes
but there are some who are alike and who
come back in each of the cultures
proporta the culture one has a way of being
say hello we also curiosity
this thirst for learning no matter who
we are and where we come from and we at the
food we all need to eat
we all love to eat and the food is
prepared differently from place to place
the other
before I go further I think that
it is important that we take a small
second and consenting killer what is it
a culture personally I like
the definition of the french priest
farrachi for him a culture that’s
all knowledge
know-how customs traditions
own a human group a
civilization
it is transmitted socially from
generation to generation and not by
genetic inheritance and conditions in
much of the behavior
individual and therefore as we can
see a culture
we’re not going there we do not see a master
with that we are the product of our
environment
when I talk to my grandparents then
starts telling me stories about
their youth
I find it fascinating but it happens
in a world that I recognize more or
less sure world where there were two
ways to have milk wait for the
slag or have a cow only
we teachers were
religious where nuns but
especially on a world where we ate
no pizza
I have nothing against food
traditional Quebec is not
calais my friends will tell you that
I love tourtière
but the world so much more flavor
offer us that but 50 years ago a
event that will completely change the
how Quebecers will live their
life and that will revolutionize our
eating habits
this event there if the exhibition 67
Expo 67 is the time when Quebec
will open to the world
this is the moment when we discovered dish
like sushi bugs then well
obviously pizzas for a lot of
people who are going to the exhibition 67
it’s going to be one of the first times
you are exposed to a culture that is
different than their own may not
and they will like some of the
business leaders to whom they have been
presentations that will begin to
bring in their daily lives and
the adoptees in everyday life and
one of those cases that is very
visible today
if eating habits to raise me
how many of you have a pizzeria
neighborhood pizzeria not too far
from home I think everyone
here raised his hand on his proves to which
point the eating habits at
québec have changed dramatically at
contact of our culture days announcement
cook me dishes that we say chick
Daouk of eagles spaghetti
of the number an explosion in the number of
Italian and Chinese Lebanese restaurants
in montreal and then in the rest of
Province
but why do we have a
such intense diversification of our
eating habits
it’s simple because we liked it
we saw we loved what we tasted and
we loved what we felt
we liked it so much that little by little
without really realizing it
we started to integrate if you have
so in our daily life I do not know
if you are like me but is it
you start to get hungry so I have a
year and a half i will be arriving in quebec for
studying at laval university and i have
chose to come live in residence
why because I wanted to live in
united nations I was coming back from a trip in
backpack through europe
if I had the puncture discover from
new cultures
but I had a problem
I did not have a scene and that’s where
that comes into play the residences because
the residences is a place
exceptional that we find nowhere
elsewhere in Quebec because we have 65% of
students who comes from the international
and we have 75 different nationalities
meet daily
it’s amazing but I must say that
when I got there it’s a shock
as much as I was eager to go to the
encounter of all the cultures that
surrounded me so much I had no idea
how to approach them
I was really scared to put the
feet in the dishes
but fortunately there were the
kitchens I know is back the food
in the kitchens of the residences a little
the cafeteria of the united nations and
people who eat at the same time
every region of the world
in the sauna so we will watch his time
we start at 5 pm by Quebecers a
hour after there are Latin Americans
who arrive and when Quebecers
that there is a desert gangue that
return and in situ and until
everyone has finished eating beautiful himself
sleep and do as we can see if
you want to discover a new culture
macho changes which art below little more
complicated than that
and so one of the first people that
I met in residence in the
residences kitchens in fact this is
someone who came as negative
bravo the united nations and this
nobody there had just passed the last
year of his life traveling in jerks or
across asia
he turned to cook a dish of
Mongolia
end of June it’s the drop and we have
started to chat kitchen nor blame
explained that in fact the plan a few
factories it was ingredients-based
we all know and we all have in
our kitchens
it’s potatoes ginger onions
garlic salt pepper
we have all that we know all that but
this person there prepare them so
totally different from what we
could expect and so that was holding a
taste that was completely different
because once we’re done
cook this person offered me to
taste his dish and quickly of course
I accepted and the second I took
my first bite I got
transported wish to transport it from
the other side the planet just like that
I was in Mongolia and that’s when
there that I realized how much
food to be a super springboard
useful and powerful to learn to
know each other and that’s how
I created a group of friends a
multicultural bubble then
international since I arrived at
quebec
once in a while it happens to me
to come out of this bubble and the reality
the contrast between reality and the
reality from the outside quite honestly
it frustrates me that frustrates me so much
that I write the project each other
this contrast there I am not
really realized until time that
the situation explodes
two weeks after starting my
course on terrorism at the university
laval
I have an event that will come
upset
our community here so the expectations at
the great mosque of quebec in january
2017
and in this course there our end project
of year was to create a campaign of
prevention of radicalization
then were going to be put in place by
a team of volunteers and who
entering a competition
international interuniversity he
as this event really touched me
I was not going to come back
the opportunity to get involved there
who did I give my name and with
my colleagues the first thing we have
is that we did a little
search to see what it would be the
best way to get involved there is a
thing that really hit us is
I have several communities in Quebec
who do not talk to each other or hardly
so to stimulate a dialogue we have
started we do not actually scream a campaign
where one could be learning to
know each other hence our name very
original
each other and how do we do it
do we interview people from
québec so our fellow citizens and we’re going
choose extracts that we will publish
on a facebook page
the goal is to stimulate a dialogue
it’s getting to know each other
but at the same time to discover the world
and today you are lucky because
I have two people to introduce you
what some dice meet
yes then the first person that I
will introduce you today it’s
she evelyne and évelyne during her
interview coming up tell us about identity
it is that we tend very often
unconsciously to limit a person to
a single facet of his personality
so during his interview and come
told us this I am a European to
quebec
my identity she is straddling between
Europe and Africa
waiting for his place and the other in a
mold strong price but she ask him
of gary only a gold suitcase I have
a French an African is a
Quebec
why can not I
keep them since they all do
part of my person and speaking of
live together and inclusion on chi
ha because I’m here during his
interview wanted to talk to us about
the extraordinary place where she has the
chance to live
she told me this via a beautiful
mosaic of cultures and origins in
my building
it is reflected on the ground when the
children play
it’s as if the world meet there
are North Africans from Latinos and
Quebecers who have fun together
other people’s chicane boxes get
you’re not like me
in fact it looks like they are more
fascinated by each other
even when they do not understand each other
we should for children it’s easy
it is normal to go to meet
the other would grow more above
it becomes complicated
the system because when I got to
quebec was really scared to put
feet in the dishes approaching a
other but I quickly went
I thought I was doing too much
for nothing
in most cases all he
must do is approach the other with
a big silly smile a nice hello
last January the reality me
catch up and still today we have a
situation that shows that the situation
this situation too is far from the prices
because at the same time that I speak to you
live together the inclusion support of
multiculturalism
we only have a few steps in two
far-right groups that are demonstrating
in front of parliament against the niqab and
the commission against racism
systemic and for me that bathes in
a multicultural and international bubble
an event that promotes
values of exclusion
I painted misery with that
personally I can not stand it
and therefore to counterbalance the
radicalization and extremism
I invite you to go to meet
the other
you probably guessed it my way
favorite to do it is with the
food
but there are a thousand and one ways to
make
it can be by the spar by the arts and
obviously by the facebook page of
each other
during these meetings there you go no
only to discover an individual
extraordinary in front of you but you
go you will also discover a
new culture a new part of the
world but in addition to that you go
discover a new part of you
even that you suspect not even because
that really in the bottom discover
the other is also to discover
oneself
thank you
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