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

[CopiousX]

Was in Kendall a few months ago, people will talk to you in Spanish assuming your a black Cuban person and when you respond back in English they kinda give you a look.

Same has happened to me and they assume I'm dominican until I open my mouth

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.

This is Extremely, extremely false. Like you would only think this if you stayed in the capital. In my travels I encountered hundreds of people with an elementary school level of Swahili and a first grade level of English thriving.

Spoiler: non Swahilii and non English speaking in the west

When i took trips there and left the hubs of Mombasa and Nairobi there were millions of people whose only language is their ethnic one. For example, on that border area with Uganda and the lake there are many people who look at you crazy for trying to speak Swahili or English because luo is the lingua Franca. Everybody in official capacity from banks to govt offices is speaking luo. when you turned on the radio most of the channels were in luo too

Spoiler: in central kenya

The most beautiful non coastal part of Kenya when I last visited was kissi which is composed of many hills and mountains filled with tea and the norm is the kisii language outside their main town.

Spoiler: in the north

One of my biggest regrets was not visiting the volcanic and desert areas to the north because it's very scenic. Do you know what language they speak there? Somali or turkana. Whole school systems exist and are taught in Somali because a big chunk of that area used to be part of Somalia for centuries, very similar to New Mexico or Cali being part of Mexico before colonial fckery combined them.

Because of the extreme diversity of their country and the British colonialists arbitrarily grouping different ethnicities in the same country, Kenya is a diverse nation where the official languages can often be useless outside the 3 major cities.

 

[King Static X]

But if you don't care about that, then you should push for Trump to make English the country's official language and we can revisit this

Trump signed an executive order in March declaring English as the official language of the US.

 

[StretfordRed]

Of course they should.

I live in an area with a lot of immigrants and a lot do speak English anyway. But I go to some medical appointments and see kids going with their elders and speaking for them as they cannot speak English.

 

[Turtle]

As a requirement? Yeah kind of. It’s not like people don’t learn most of it anyways.

For citizenship? Yeah no shyt you should learn english. But not to live here.

 

[karim]

the prime minister of England posted this and the responses have been mostly angry ones. Lots of claims of racism, fascism, etc but I dont see it that way. If you move to another country and you dont know the language you should learn the language. If i moved to France I would try my best to learn French

He's pandering to racists, who don't really care whether or not immigrants speak the leanguage, they don't want to see any brown people. That's why he gets criticized. Starmer is a moronic centrist, who, like all moronic centrists, refuses to understand that this strategy of adopting far right positions and narratives doesn't work and only plays into the hands of the right.

 

[TELL ME YA CHEESIN FAM?]

It's a little too late for that

 

[⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐]

there's people who are mute and can still live in any society so this seems arbitrary

#Bars

 

[MrLogic]

No.
at least be able to read the language of the country your in.