My view on Diversity is you can bring all the good stuff (food) from whatever shthole you came from, but leave all the bad stuff behind, especially the stuff that made your heritage homeland a shthole in the first place. Remember, there is a reason you or your forefathers came here, the place they came from sucked so bad they had to escape. Some cultures pick up English in half a generation sometimes it takes a full generation, but all eventually become just like a native within one full generation, rare exception is small ghetto communities where it might take two. We integrate (indoctrinate) people from all over the world better than anywhere else, by far. The people that hang onto their language without learning English pay for it economically, this is the best motivator to get with the program, when organizations and governments encourage groups to not learn the common language they are hurting the people they are trying to "help". To those that get pissed try helping the foreigners speakeda englaise, you might learn something about a different culture and appreciate our culture more.
Do you really think everyone else coming to this country left their country because they lived in a shthole? and "leave the bad stuff behind"?? Last I heard, America is a mix of many countries, and when did being bilingual become "bad stuff"? Many of the most successful people in our country are diverse, and many are bi/multilingual.
When I go oversees, or to South America, I speak whatever language I want to speak and no one (not some local prejudice, paranoid, crybaby) is going to tell me otherwise. My guess is when most of our Org members go to other countries, regardless if they are multilingual, they are going to speak whichever language works best for them at that particular time (negotiating a deal, talking to family members/friends, etc.).
All Joking aside do yourself and family a favor.
Learn their language but never speak it and just learn to listen. You as a car guy will be miles ahead of your coworkers, cause you can figure out their strategy for buying a vehicle with the language you learned... You sometimes in life miss a lesson cause, you were looking at the obvious, not the billboard that was flashing behind them....[/QUOTE
Your post abit back was too funny... Forstar du vad som kommer ur mitt mun. Swedish. Sometimes when in the restroom at work i hear them talking a different... language. I say in Swedish, Jag forstar inte ett ord ni sayer for nangonting. I don't understand a word you are saying. I get a funny look but doesn't matter to me....this is not going away anytime soon.
Penso che sono solo di essere eccessivamente sensibile e ficcanaso. come altri hanno detto che se non parlano a voi che differenza fa che stanno parlando di lingua?
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Wow... My friend I think that's some kind of racist comment... If they're talking in another language right in the middle of their conversation, what's the matter? it's their conversation anyway... Don't get me wrong, I know it can be frustrating at some point to not understand what others are saying but do not assume immediately that is about you, that's just paranoid. I speak Spanish, English, German and Nahuatl (main language of the Aztec culture or "mexicas" as properly named) and sometimes, when you are used to hear/speak in other languages you can get lost in the middle of the thing you are doing and don't care what you are speaking. I don't care about hearing Japanese, Chinese, or other language I don't understand so, try to chill out a little, let them be. Peace.
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So Shawnski tell me, how do you say 'white boy has small unit' in Vietnamese?