Quote Originally Posted by Rhyfelwyr View Post
"Mrs Merkel stressed that immigrants living in Germany needed to do more to integrate, including learning to speak German.
I'm one of the three or four people on the planet who never had a problem with this kind of thinking. I wouldn't bar someone from entry into a country if they couldn't speak the native language, but it strikes me as astonishingly rude to not even try to learn it if you plan on living there.