Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 10:04:29 -0500 From: Dan <dannospamam.com> Subject: Re: OT language stuff again was : GM to cut virtually all Saab's ties to Sweden
On 5/27/2005 12:26 AM, Pooh Bear wrote: > "Mr. Manfredjensen" wrote: > > >>We are a country composed of people from all over the globe. You will probably >>find more langaues spoken in a major US city than in any other on Earth. > > > Pretty similar here actually. Recently some public information leaflets have > been printed in several languages for the benefit of non-English speakers. > > There's a bit of a debate here about immigration currently. I don't think it's > too much to ask that immigrants should be able to speak English. This has been > causing a problem since some immigrants ( mainly of Pakistani origin ) have > never learnt to speak English and this creates a problem when they need to > access public services specifically such as old age care. > > Same problems in USA. It used to be that USA immigrants would take language classes at night at the local high school and be proud of it. Now with "Multi-Culturalism" it is an affront to suggest to an immigrant that he should attempt to learn English. But that really doesn't matter in the long term, because his kids will learn English and he will die.