Is it racist to require immigrants in an English speaking country to learn English?

[Sonic Boom of the South]

Thread full of bytch ass right wing hoes.

 

[Vandelay]

Not exactly.

Personally, I think we should all be multilingual, but I'll break it down if people are really interested.

 

[The_Sheff]

I honestly don’t understand why you wouldn’t want to try and learn the language of the country you live in.

At least learn to read it if speaking it is too much.

 

[TEH]

This is more an issue of refusal to integrate with the local population. Most people who seriously try to integrate into a culture learns to speak the language very quickly and easily.

 

[Remote]

You don’t force this because peoples and lands and languages change over time. The laws would be useless

The average person is so stupid they don’t even know how many dead languages there are in Europe alone.

Hell even English is unrecognizable if you go back 600 years.

 

[MajesticLion]

It's not going to work anyway so eh

 

[qwasi]

How's it racist to state for the benefit of overall societal function, you need to be capable to read/write/speak in X? Its the basis for an official language as people can retain their cultural tongues but find commonality. i.e Kenya has 42 tribes but they're all competent in at least English or Swahili, if not both.

 

[HarlemHottie]

yeah but those people aren't burdening anyone. they shop at stores and attend events that cater people like them.

No, they raise half illiterate children and require us to pay for translators to facilitate access to local services: police, fire dept, schools, medical.

I know because I grew up with their children. That's where you get that Cardi B accent from in NYC, primarily uptown and Bx. I grew up understanding Spanish, watching Sabados Gigantes, and eating plantanos at my lil friends house. One of my bestest play aunties still to this very day only speaks to me in Spanish.