Originally Posted by Nightshade
Umm...sorry man but you are the ignorant one here. many don't even bother to attempt to learn the language.
Of course why should they when an english speaking nation prints any information in 15 different languages and doesn't hire anyone unless they are bilingual.
Get real man I a call my phone provider, water company, cable company and they have menus in at least two languages if not more. why are we catering to their lazy asses? All it does is cost us more money to be able to offer services in their language than the cost of the services themselves.
If I moved to another country I would make every effort to speak the predominant language in that country. It would be stupid to expect everyone else around me to learn my language and it would be stupider still to argue discrimination when they didn't.
werrrrrrrrrrrrrrd :werd:
many immigrants enclose themselves in communities surrounded by nothing but people from their home country. they barely try to communicate with english speaking people, and most of the time they don't need to. even in high school, groups of immigrant students would stick together like glue and never stray out of their group. their english was just good enough to get through school, but otherwise terrible.
there is also this concept of learning english before immigrating, which my parents did. my dad studied english so hard, he got the highest score on the TOEFL ever (in taiwan, at the time.. it's probably been broken by now), and didn't have the slighest hint of an accent. his english was better than mine, and i was born and raised here! and no, he wasn't rich, well off, privileged, or anything. both my parents were damned poor when they were growing up.
NightShade is totally right.. we make it far too easy for people to get away without learning english, and people take advantage of it.