Leaving your country, your family, everything you have ever known, must be hard decision to make and it sure takes a lot of courage to leave it all behind. A lesson that can be learned from her experience is that perseverance and self confidence is really important when facing hard times. She could have quit and return to her country and family but she stayed.
Of course she had support and this aspect is not negligible. This kind of program is necessary to help immigrants integrate. Her story also shows that immigrants do their part in their integration for, she is learning french to facilitate her interactions with people.
I’m bringing this point because it seems to preoccupy the Medias and some politicians that are concerned about the preservation of french in Quebec. The fact is that they attribute the problem to immigrants and provide more drastic solutions that tend to want to curb immigration.
My concern in this problem is that this kind of news gives me the impression that intolerance toward immigrants tends to increase. Learning a new language might be hard for some people and I think that many of them (probably more in regions) really want to integrate and make the effort to learn french. What I mean is that we should not, as people, generalize and be intolerant in the name of a language that most of us can't even speak and write well!
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