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Listening to George galloway tonight, the subject come up of the street names in the brick lane area of Londons east end, being in English and bangldeshi, and george explaining that its multiculturalism working.
So my question is, if multiculturalism is working, why do some bangldeshi people refuse to speak and/or read the homeland language? They then cannot correspond with the prodomanent people.
Is it a case that they refuse or that some of them just haven’t been able to fully learn the language yet? I mean how many British people are fluent in a foreign language before going to live overseas? All those people who go to live in Spain can they speak the language fluently? Anyway, I don’t think bilingual signs are a very important issue.
As I always say, look at the world’s current and former superpowers of recent times, the USA and USSR. Both nations have/had ethnic diversity in them. So if multiculturalism is so damaging and so bad for society then how did these ethnically diverse nations become the most powerful nations on earth? Answer that one Emma.
@tommy wrote:
There’s going to riots up and down the country one day. Maybe in a few years, maybe in 10, but they will be very violent race riots.
Rivers of blood.
Should we blame those who make prodomanent social decisions for the end result? Those like george galloway and new labour, conservatives, lib dems?
If so, why do we allow them to destroy our society?
Mr bigstuff, surely anyone can read and understand a street name, come on…
This has NOTHING to do with spain or the rest of the world.
Answer my questions on the other thread.Maybe you should look at your own shoddy standard of English before slagging off others.
So you agree that no street name should be spelt in any other language than English?
If they don’t like it, they can f*ck off back to which ever sh*t country they came here from.
By that reasoning, you should crawl back under the stone, you slithered from.
@tommy wrote:
@emmalush wrote:
So you agree that no street name should be spelt in any other language than English?
I agree with you on that one.
This is England.
Our language is English.
We shouldn’t be a bi-lingual society. The English speak English. That’s the way it should be.
My English is just fine, thank you, Big.
If people come here to live then they should adopt our customs.
When in Rome do as the Romans do.
That’s the way it’s always been, that’s the way it always should be.
If they don’t like it, they can f*ck off back to which ever sh*t country they came here from.
We have had this topic before – I must say I agree with exactly what Thomas has said there – no doubt we will be labelled racist for it too !!!
Just Imagine one of us going to live in a foreign country and expecting them to change everything for us. It simply wouldnt happen. So why is this country different? Surely in a foreign country you abide by their laws and respect their culture.
@tiler wrote:
If they don’t like it, they can f*ck off back to which ever sh*t country they came here from.
By that reasoning, you should crawl back under the stone, you slithered from.
So much for a sensible and well thought out response ? I on the other hand agree with Emmalush, Tommy and Drivel on this matter. Why should my country bow down to the demands of a minority faction ?? Several of these said immigrants only work here on the basis of returning to their own country and buy a house on the wages we pay them ( The Poles in case you didnt know ) Why should my child have to attend a school where religious education no longer involves the protestant faith as it may offend ?? By birth I am an Irish Catholic, yet i follow the laws this country has set out for me to live by. I respect that this is a protestant country and i do not villify that religion because it chooses to follow a different belief than my own. Nor do i threaten the life of the leader of a religion because HE made a statement that offended my beliefs. And to top it all, nor do i stamp my feet and threaten the lives of innocent people in this country just because they are not of my religion…….no like any sane and humane person, I’ll leave that up to the bloody muslim extremists who I help to pay for with MY hard earned taxes
Yes why can’t muslims be as peaceful as Irish Catholics? What better example is there of respecting others beliefs and abiding by the culture of the majority than the way some Irish Catholics have behaved in Northern Ireland. There is also the message of peace and tolerance that was conveyed to this country by those nice Irish Catholics in the IRA.
Getting back to the point, I think bi-lingual signs are just a way of the council trying to be helpful towards an area that has a large Bangladeshi community which might have members within it who haven’t mastered English yet (just like Emma). You could argue that if a community wants bilingual signs then they should have to pay for it themselves or at least contribute towards the cost. Apart from that, I see no problem with bilingual signs. I’m sure that if you go abroad you will see English signs in areas that have a lot of English visitors.
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