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Originally Posted by Hugh
Agreed - when I lived in Berlin, I learned German (and Russian, but that was for work...).
I did the same when I worked in the US and NZ.  |
Why, are there lots of German Russians in the US and NZ?....
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I think a better balance has to be struck between trying to accommodate the needs of migrants and going so far that they may not feel a real need to integrate. Clearly there are very many who've come here and adapted productively and happily to our way of life but there's also a significant number who seem to make little or no effort to integrate and appear to want to carry on as if they were 'back home', expecting the rest of society to just accept their particular languages, customs etc.