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Look, I have nothing against people keeping their culture and traditions and whatnot. All I ask--all I expect of anyone going to any country is that they LEARN THE FRIGGIN LANGUAGE! Is that too much to ask?

If I were to go to Germany, I would expect to have to learn German.
If I were to go to Japan, I would expect to have to learn Japanese.
Going to China? Learn Chinese. Mexico? Learn Spanish!

So why, oh WHY is it that everyone and their grandma thinks they can waltz over here--where it's quite evident that the main language of the country is ENGLISH--and expect to NOT need to learn to speak friggin English only to whine, b***h, and moan about how "unfair" it is and how they were SO "mistreated" because nobody could understand what the hell they were saying because nobody at a hospital or court or agency could speak their natural language? I'm not talking about tourists who are just coming to visit or are on vacation. I'm talking about people coming into this country (a good number of them ILLEGALLY) to live, expecting everyone here to cater to their needs.

And you can say that English isn't the "official language". And you can say they have a "right to their culture" and whatnot. I don't CARE. I'm just tired of hearing these people WHINE because we're not catering to them when they can't even be BOTHERED to TRY and learn to talk to us.
Nobody Famous
Look, I have nothing against people keeping their culture and traditions and whatnot. All I ask--all I expect of anyone going to any country is that they LEARN THE FRIGGIN LANGUAGE! Is that too much to ask?

If I were to go to Germany, I would expect to have to learn German.
If I were to go to Japan, I would expect to have to learn Japanese.
Going to China? Learn Chinese. Mexico? Learn Spanish!

So why, oh WHY is it that everyone and their grandma thinks they can waltz over here--where it's quite evident that the main language of the country is ENGLISH--and expect to NOT need to learn to speak friggin English only to whine, b***h, and moan about how "unfair" it is and how they were SO "mistreated" because nobody could understand what the hell they were saying because nobody at a hospital or court or agency could speak their natural language? I'm not talking about tourists who are just coming to visit or are on vacation. I'm talking about people coming into this country (a good number of them ILLEGALLY) to live, expecting everyone here to cater to their needs.

And you can say that English isn't the "official language". And you can say they have a "right to their culture" and whatnot. I don't CARE. I'm just tired of hearing these people WHINE because we're not catering to them when they can't even be BOTHERED to TRY and learn to talk to us.


Rofl agreed. My parents can't speak a word of English and I have to translate everything (gets annoying if you are in front of the police or in court...)
marinebase7
Nobody Famous
Look, I have nothing against people keeping their culture and traditions and whatnot. All I ask--all I expect of anyone going to any country is that they LEARN THE FRIGGIN LANGUAGE! Is that too much to ask?

If I were to go to Germany, I would expect to have to learn German.
If I were to go to Japan, I would expect to have to learn Japanese.
Going to China? Learn Chinese. Mexico? Learn Spanish!

So why, oh WHY is it that everyone and their grandma thinks they can waltz over here--where it's quite evident that the main language of the country is ENGLISH--and expect to NOT need to learn to speak friggin English only to whine, b***h, and moan about how "unfair" it is and how they were SO "mistreated" because nobody could understand what the hell they were saying because nobody at a hospital or court or agency could speak their natural language? I'm not talking about tourists who are just coming to visit or are on vacation. I'm talking about people coming into this country (a good number of them ILLEGALLY) to live, expecting everyone here to cater to their needs.

And you can say that English isn't the "official language". And you can say they have a "right to their culture" and whatnot. I don't CARE. I'm just tired of hearing these people WHINE because we're not catering to them when they can't even be BOTHERED to TRY and learn to talk to us.


Rofl agreed. My parents can't speak a word of English and I have to translate everything (gets annoying if you are in front of the police or in court...)


You have my sympathy. I feel especially bad for the kids of these people. They do learn the language out of necessity, but they get stuck playing translators for their parents from then on. You ever see a child sworn in during court because there was no one else who could translate? It's rather irritating.
mariana de la noche
ok then get the ******** out of mexico if you can speak spanish


Yeah I love how all the Americans are like speak our language dudes.

Americans don't even speak English nor do we speak any other languages; but in the same breath want the whole world to speak American. (Even when we leave to visits other places like France, Germany, and of course Mexico.) Irony FTF!

This is why suck btw and last I check we aren't the number one country so maybe we need to get the stick out of our asses and at least start speaking one other language from one of the better countries.
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Fru_bie4545
Okay to start out i have nothing against any race i think we are ALL EQUAL but i do have an issue with foriegn people coming and living in my country and speaking their own language all the time. I feel that all the differnt natinalitys are destroying my countrys natural heritage. I have friends who arn't english who are lovely people but it does bother me when they don't behave like english people when they live here. If we go out there we have to follow their customs so why don't they follow ours? I don't think the olden days when other races were forced to be slaves is right because were all equal. I would like to hear your thoughts on this matter.
They ARE english, you are english if you are born in england or live there, though it is disturbing that english is becoming synonymous with "white english"
Aint no way around it: you're racist unaccepting white bread.
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Misses Brinks
On the contuary, you have destroyed the Natives heritage by coming to their country.


But... English people actually DO belong to England. neutral


We aren't native though, no one is really native, just like the turks aren't native to turkey and the Japanese aren't native to Japan.(The turks invaded "turkey" and took it over, the Japanese wiped out the indigenous people and the English and even the celts wiped out the original people, who were called the beaker people, and also the neandethals)
Whatever national heritage you're claiming England has, I think you'll find it's dominated by the arrival and departure of migrant communities.

You were born from migrants, and nationalism leads to racism.
Fru_bie4545
Okay to start out i have nothing against any race i think we are ALL EQUAL but i do have an issue with foriegn people coming and living in my country and speaking their own language all the time. I feel that all the differnt natinalitys are destroying my countrys natural heritage. I have friends who arn't english who are lovely people but it does bother me when they don't behave like english people when they live here. If we go out there we have to follow their customs so why don't they follow ours? I don't think the olden days when other races were forced to be slaves is right because were all equal. I would like to hear your thoughts on this matter.



Is your BNP membership paid up?

Its people like you that destroy nationalism, you reduce it to race or creed or ethnicity, tack on ridiculous ideas of in this case "Englishness" and somehow feel your multicultural society in the UK is being destroyed by "foreigners" You are nothing but a racist.

Nationalism is always lumped in with racism, because the small minded embrace abstract concepts of race and then apply that to everything. Real Nationalists would embrace immigration as vital to broadening the cultural horizons of the Nation, with others emigrating to join it as citizens, to be a part of and to become an asset to the nation through living and working within it, free from bigotry or racial hatred. Its skinheads in suits masquerading as political parties, like those animals in the BNP, that tarnish the idea of nationalism.
Fru_bie4545
I have friends who arn't english who are lovely people but it does bother me when they don't behave like english people when they live here.

I can derive from this:

1: The subject is Great Britain
2: OP wants the immigrants to behave like herself
3: OP has immigrant friends

In conclusion, OP is batshit crazy.
Sexual Chocolat
Aint no way around it: you're racist unaccepting white bread.


You're the one who is being racist here.The OP never say whether they were white or not.
I have a problem with illegal immigrants. The imposition of their culture upon mine is awkward too but I have no problem with them keeping it within their family or community of others who share similar culture tastes.

Just don't make everything in spanish plz.
Fru_bie4545
Okay to start out i have nothing against any race i think we are ALL EQUAL but i do have an issue with foriegn people coming and living in my country and speaking their own language all the time. I feel that all the differnt natinalitys are destroying my countrys natural heritage. I have friends who arn't english who are lovely people but it does bother me when they don't behave like english people when they live here. If we go out there we have to follow their customs so why don't they follow ours? I don't think the olden days when other races were forced to be slaves is right because were all equal. I would like to hear your thoughts on this matter.
I'm sorry, this doesn't quite follow.
I find that the preservation of many countries' cultural history is doing little more then setting us back a couple hundred years. Honestly, get over yourself - it isn't "your" country

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