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Discrimination or a victory for common sense?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Common sense! If you move to a country whose language you can't speak, you SHOULD be required to learn that language. If you don't, you're segregating yourself. I've moved to the UK from the USA, luckily we speak the same language, but I've had to learn all the different terms and slang that are different here than in the US, which I was excited and glad to do. I'll always have my own accent, but I definitely speak in such a way that people here know what I'm on about!
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I think it can only be a good thing. It benefits everyone but it is especially of benefit to the individual. If you can't speak the native tongue of the country you're living in, you've serious compromised your opportunities to jobs and services.
I've read of numerous immigrants who don't speak English who have been abused by their English speaking spouse, family members, employers, etc. Because they cannot communicate in English, they have found it almost impossible to find help and advice.
This also goes for all English speaking people who move to any country where English isn't the official language. I believe that any ex-pat who simply assumes that the citizens of their host country will all speak English is naïve and disrespectful. If you're going to settle in a country then you should always learn the lingo as a mark of respect to your hosts and to make your own life easier.
I've read of numerous immigrants who don't speak English who have been abused by their English speaking spouse, family members, employers, etc. Because they cannot communicate in English, they have found it almost impossible to find help and advice.
This also goes for all English speaking people who move to any country where English isn't the official language. I believe that any ex-pat who simply assumes that the citizens of their host country will all speak English is naïve and disrespectful. If you're going to settle in a country then you should always learn the lingo as a mark of respect to your hosts and to make your own life easier.
I respect other peoples views, but my own view is that if a person chooses to live in a 'foreign' land as a resident. then that person should, out of courtesy to his/her hosts,make an effort to speak that nations language, not to do so displays an ignorance, and a view that the host people should speak their language.
Sounds like the Mail putting a bit of a "slant" on the case.
As pa_ul first pointed out, it was the applicant's inability to get a job which led to the refusal of permission.
His inability to speak English did mean that he wouldn't easily find a job.
Mind you ...he could have looked for work as a mime act.
As pa_ul first pointed out, it was the applicant's inability to get a job which led to the refusal of permission.
His inability to speak English did mean that he wouldn't easily find a job.
Mind you ...he could have looked for work as a mime act.
/// Sounds like the Mail putting a bit of a "slant" on the case. ///
http://www.guardian.c...k-english?INTCMP=SRCH
http://www.guardian.c...k-english?INTCMP=SRCH