skyofblue,

Yep, that's what I thought.  Your linchpin to what you regard as culture is Judeo-Christianity, art, oh, and the Beatles. Well, sorry to break it to you but most people across the globe grew up familiar with Western art, music, literature, Beatles, and had a rudimentary understanding of the Bible. They watched Hollywood movies and TV after all and have for at least a generation.  You don't seem to want to fit Filipinos in your categories but they are predominantly Christian, and are very familiar with Western culture. The same can be said about many colonized people from the Caribbean, most of Africa, large parts of Asia, most of South America, most of the Middle East, and all of Europe.  So, according to your definition, pretty much everyone on Earth fits into your monocultural definition.  Maybe that's the problem.  You are accidentally saying monoculture when you mean that Montreal was always a multicultural society. That's okay, we all mess up words sometimes.