Why is it, that I feel I have to learn several foreign languages just to get by when leaving the house? Any thoughts greatly appreciated!
2006-10-11 07:50:07 · 16 answers · asked by Ackers17 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
Because the world is becoming global.....Or haven't you noticed? People are moving and migrating to different countries...The world is becoming smaller.....Its part of human nature to want to move.....Its easier now, with all the technology and resources for people to just pick up and move to other countries....
2006-10-11 07:54:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
The population of the UK is rising, but only negligibly. The make-up of the population is indeed changing and is influenced by migration more than natural increase. However, this is nothing new: Britain was built by wave after wave of migration - Celts, Romans, Vikings, Saxons, Normans, Hugenots, Jews, Irish, West Indians, Ugandans, Asians, Eastern Europeans... Each brought their own cultural influences - including language. (English itself has mutated repeatedly and continues to do so.) This makes a nonsense of the ignorant assertions that the pure English are being somehow threatend or diluted by foreign influences - 'twas ever thus! There is no such thing as a pure Englishman!
2006-10-15 05:41:31 · answer #2 · answered by ? 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All over the world the foreign population is rising. There is a record number of Brits in just about every country in the world, imposing their language and culture on the natives.
They do this because they can: cheap flights and easy communications. There are now so many middle aged Brits on the council in one Spanish town, (none of them have bothered to learn Spanish of course, despite making their homes there) that they recently demanded that all council papers be published in English !
Can you just imagine the Daily Mail's headlines if any other nationality demanded to have - say - Tunbridge Wells Council's papers all published in Spanish or Swahili ? Middle aged Brits are a scourge on Spanish life, they ignore the culture, are too old to have school age children, so the schools close, and they very rarely learn more than a few words of Spanish. (I speak enough of the language myself to know how livid the Spaniards are about all this)
Fortunately they told the elderly Brits that if they wanted to be on the council in a Spanish town, they would have to learn the language.
There are also loads of Brits in Bangkok, France, Turkey - and in all these places the natives feel overwhelmed sometimes. These are just places I happen to know about - it's a world wide phenomenon, young people and old people everywhere are all simply moving about. Get used to it.
2006-10-14 05:09:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because recently, we have realised that the world is for everyone!!! So we all can live wherever we want. By the way, learning foreign language's useful. I speak one, and so that I left where I was for where I am now. If you feel you should learn another language, then try. It's not gonna hurt you, but will be beneficial to you.
2006-10-11 08:02:58 · answer #4 · answered by ono 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
In the UK, the state approved 6 million abortions in 25 years. In USA, 45 million abortions in same period. So in both countries, the Industrial Reserve Army, which creates wealth, vanished. Hence the Rag Tag and Bobtail Imigration Policy.
2006-10-12 13:30:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everyone who is not a Native American is a foreigner. And it just might do you some good attempting to learn a new language without complaining to us about it.
2006-10-11 09:58:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the west is making the world a shitty dangerous place and blaiming it on others.
Britain use to walk into countries and make it there own for many many years, India one example!
This one gets me each time, ever heard of commonwealth?pause a mo and think it out, common wealth.
Sounds good.
What it means is britain has the wealth a few of them.
So people from all over the world are moving, time to really share that good ol, common wealth!
Cant see a problem with learning languages.
Living in wales its common practise and law to force the child to learn its native and tongue and that of the english.
No sympathy sorry.
Great britain,
time to prove it!
2006-10-11 08:06:08 · answer #7 · answered by sotu 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Because the population checks and balances that would have existed in their original homeland no longer apply. Life was cheap, that's why they had such large populations.
2006-10-14 02:11:30 · answer #8 · answered by Veritas 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
50 million children have been born to illegals in the U.S. and it's rising daily.
And yet there are people who think it's not a problem. They will be voting and America will change.
2006-10-11 11:23:20 · answer #9 · answered by sister_godzilla 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I went to London for a few days with a pal - he was just about the only person who spoke the same language as me! unbelievable, but true.
2006-10-11 09:27:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋