The Veil of Intolerance Gustavo Pérez Firmat once said: “The fact that I’m writing to you in English already falsifies what I wanted to tell you. My subject: How to explain to you that I don’t belong to English even though I belong nowhere else.” [1] He’s right, he doesn’t belong to English, and as a French-Canadian from Quebec, nor do I. I don’t belong to French either. In fact, English belongs to me, and so does French. These incredibly rich tools are at my disposal. Consequently, I don’t belong to them, they belong to me. People don’t belong to languages, nor do they belong to a “race” or nation. Sadly, humans tend to be close-minded towards differences; they tend to be intolerant. Today, the rise of populism and the strong return of xenophobia in modern politics leave the Western World more divided than ever with, on one side, the “alt-right” and, on the other, the “leftists snowflakes”.