With this begins the conflicts concerning language in Montreal. The Francophone people of Montreal view English as dominant and domineering. The English see no reason to learn French. Most English people live in the English neighborhoods, send their children to English schools, and have jobs where there is little reason to speak French unless confronted with someone French. The English feel as though the French people should take the initiative to learn English, which nowadays seems like the only way for a French person to be able to communicate with an English person.
French people feel exactly opposite.
The French see the English as trying to assimilate them into the English way of life. French people see no reason to conform to the English way of life. The French believed these problems were brought on by the unwillingness of the English to be open. Therefore the argument the Francophone population makes is one of cause. They believe that the English-speaking people are the cause of the language problem in Montreal because they won t grasp the French way of thinking.