Quote Originally Posted by ThisYouWillDo View Post
Fuck you! What is it about English speakers? Too stupid or too lazy to cope with any other language: they'd rather commit genocide than learn a new language.

When the Angles, Saxons and Jutes came to England, they didn't bother to learn the local language. They imposed their own. Later their descendants tried to eradicate the native languages of Scotland, Ireland and Wales. They successfully eradicated Cornish and Manx. This was deliberate policy - to control the population.

In the Americas, the same people wiped out the native languages and imposed their own. In India, Australia and New Zealand, their cousins did the same to a greater or lesser degree. And, of course, the same thing happened in Africa.

There's something very flawed in the nature of people descended from those small German tribes: a fearful arrogance and self-righteousness replacing a desire to accomodate and to adapt. Xenophobic, to use a foreign word, and paranoid, to use another.

The point about any dual language school is to promote both languages and to improve understanding and harmony. Refusal to accomodate other languages can only lead to isolationism and ignorance - and that's only worthy of "Little Americans".

TYWD

P.S. Go to any of the countries you mentioned, and you'll easily find someone who can speak English. You won't have to have learned their language at all. Go to Sweden or any Scandinavian country, and you'll be hard-pressed to find someone who doesn't speak English (s/he'll probably speak German instead!).

I once had occasion to telephone a filling station in Sweden (from the UK). The telephone was answered in Swedish, as you would expect. My first words were, "Do you speak English?" and the girl replied, without hesitation, and in that beautiful Scandinavian accent, "Of course, Sir."

You know I don't know when it was that you decided you didn't like me, and I really don't care why or when, but if you can't hold an intelligent conversation without insulting me then, no fuck you!

Why should I have to learn to speak another language, I live in America, English is the normal language here, so I see no need to learn to speak another language. I am not stupid or lazy.I would put my IQ up against yours any day of the week like I said don't insult me any more jackass!