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Integration Doesn't Seem To Be Working
"Census figures show white Britons are leaving areas where they are minority"
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Would you leave your area if you found yourself in the minority?
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Would you leave your area if you found yourself in the minority?
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It's fairly arrogant to "not bother" because everyone else speaks our language. Some of them don't speak it very well, if it comes to that. And besides, it's respectful ifyou a re going to trade with or visit or work with another country to be able to communicate them without relying on their speaking your language.
I only speak, relatively modest now, French myself, having had no reason to speak it much for the last five years or so, but I would like very much to be able to speak more than just that.
Maybe this is half the problem, always expecting everyone to adapt to us.
I only speak, relatively modest now, French myself, having had no reason to speak it much for the last five years or so, but I would like very much to be able to speak more than just that.
Maybe this is half the problem, always expecting everyone to adapt to us.
No. Not having a white face doesn't mean someone isn't British. And having already lived and worked in a few areas where I guess I'd be considered a minority I can confirm I felt no concerns... one place I worked in Sydenham had a fairly typical english pub next door but with a Jamaican chef, jerk chicken, rice and peas with a cold white wine, don't mind if I do! :c)
That's brilliant, tambo. Necessity is the mother of multilingualism ! If you have to trade with foreigners, you have to learn their language or at least the useful bits. This can go to extremes; Swahili is a mixture of languages but is a language now, in its own right, because of trade.
My daughter is fluent in French and Spanish;I have only French; and I am uneasy visiting Spanish speaking countries without her. Not sure how common that unease about language is. At the basic level, I feel everything is more expensive if you don't speak the local language adequately or at all, but I always feel that, without it, something is missed
My daughter is fluent in French and Spanish;I have only French; and I am uneasy visiting Spanish speaking countries without her. Not sure how common that unease about language is. At the basic level, I feel everything is more expensive if you don't speak the local language adequately or at all, but I always feel that, without it, something is missed
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[i]Large areas of London are indeed becoming "No Go Areas" for the indigenous English people.[i]
/// Nonsense. ///
As a black person, how would you know?
Almost like a white person saying 'nonsense' to a black person who says he is constantly being pull up by the police, for no other reason than he is black.
[i]Large areas of London are indeed becoming "No Go Areas" for the indigenous English people.[i]
/// Nonsense. ///
As a black person, how would you know?
Almost like a white person saying 'nonsense' to a black person who says he is constantly being pull up by the police, for no other reason than he is black.
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