IMMIGRATION thread

[Husar]

Just to be fair to @Fragony, I found one of these rare, crazy arabophile dhimmis you keep mentioning:

http://www.focus.de/politik/deutschl...?fbc=fb-shares

There is this german "education expert" who seriously suggested we should introduce Arabic as a second language in school that is a valid school language in general next to German (i.e. maths for example could be taught in German and Arabic even varying within a lesson as everyone should understand both). He justifies that by saying that we should prepare for the important transofrmations that will happen in the arabic world within the next decades and that will make it an important economic, cultural and political partner to whom we can then advertise ourselves better.

I have to say I laughed because this really does sound crazy and I can think of half a dozen languages I would rather give this position to, most importantly English (which Arabs can/should and do also learn...).
So yeah, it's almost like finding a yeti for me, but crazy multicultists do apparently exist.

[Montmorency]

German and Arabic should therefore be obligatory for all students until graduation

Yeah, that's pretty silly. If you're going to have mandatory language instruction, have it for English and German, while leaving aside parallel language classes (also mandatory) in which students choose to study an available language, e.g. French, Spanish, Russian - and all the way through Latin, Arabic, and Mandarin Chinese, depending on staff availability in given schools or districts. That is, both English and German would be a part of all general curriculum, while 'Selective Language Study' would be language education classes, with each student choosing to study a language of their preference (again, based on available choices, but at least for European languages that shouldn't be a problem).

[Husar]

Here's an article in English: http://dailycaller.com/2016/02/03/ge...imary-schools/

“We would appreciate being a country of immigration and multiple languages,” Strothotte said. “Refugee children need to learn German and German children Arabic.”

Strothotte believes increased understanding of Arabic will have positive effects on Germany culturally, economically and politically.

[...]

“We must finally acknowledge that Arabic is a world language,” he said. “We have to stay on pace.”

[Beskar]

I thought everyone was learning English so there was no need for other languages? Got Turks, Germans, Dutch, Serbs, Russians, Japanese, Swedes... All speaking English. Let's disband other languages! People are thinking too small with learning multiple.

Down with political correctness.

[Fragony]

Just to be fair to @Fragony, I found one of these rare, crazy arabophile dhimmis you keep mentioning:

http://www.focus.de/politik/deutschl...?fbc=fb-shares

There is this german "education expert" who seriously suggested we should introduce Arabic as a second language in school that is a valid school language in general next to German (i.e. maths for example could be taught in German and Arabic even varying within a lesson as everyone should understand both). He justifies that by saying that we should prepare for the important transofrmations that will happen in the arabic world within the next decades and that will make it an important economic, cultural and political partner to whom we can then advertise ourselves better.

I have to say I laughed because this really does sound crazy and I can think of half a dozen languages I would rather give this position to, most importantly English (which Arabs can/should and do also learn...).
So yeah, it's almost like finding a yeti for me, but crazy multicultists do apparently exist.

Not so rare, but a good example

[Pannonian]

Just to be fair to @Fragony, I found one of these rare, crazy arabophile dhimmis you keep mentioning:

http://www.focus.de/politik/deutschl...?fbc=fb-shares

There is this german "education expert" who seriously suggested we should introduce Arabic as a second language in school that is a valid school language in general next to German (i.e. maths for example could be taught in German and Arabic even varying within a lesson as everyone should understand both). He justifies that by saying that we should prepare for the important transofrmations that will happen in the arabic world within the next decades and that will make it an important economic, cultural and political partner to whom we can then advertise ourselves better.

I have to say I laughed because this really does sound crazy and I can think of half a dozen languages I would rather give this position to, most importantly English (which Arabs can/should and do also learn...).
So yeah, it's almost like finding a yeti for me, but crazy multicultists do apparently exist.

In the UK, what's not so rare is the professional ethnic offence finder. People who take up causes to take offence of one ethnic group or another on the basis of very little. And by professional ethnic offence finder, I mean every bit of the description, literally; someone in a paid position to represent all ethnic minorities, who will use their initiative to denounce each and every government action and inaction as racially biased and insensitive. What's bad about these twats is: firstly, their initiative in denouncing everything means things that actually matter are devalued; secondly, they are racist as well, denouncing others freely as bounty bars, bananas, and similar pejoratives. In some ways, they're even worse than neo-Nazis. Very, very few people, and no one in government, takes notice of neo-Nazis. But professional offence finders find a sizeable niche of sympathisers within the left, with their voice making governments of the left both less likely and less credible. They're scum like the neo-Nazis, but unlike neo-Nazis, they're supported by a sizeable cadre of idiots.

[Greyblades]

In the UK, what's not so rare is the professional ethnic offence finder. People who take up causes to take offence of one ethnic group or another on the basis of very little. And by professional ethnic offence finder, I mean every bit of the description, literally; someone in a paid position to represent all ethnic minorities, who will use their initiative to denounce each and every government action and inaction as racially biased and insensitive. What's bad about these twats is: firstly, their initiative in denouncing everything means things that actually matter are devalued; secondly, they are racist as well, denouncing others freely as bounty bars, bananas, and similar pejoratives. In some ways, they're even worse than neo-Nazis. Very, very few people, and no one in government, takes notice of neo-Nazis. But professional offence finders find a sizeable niche of sympathisers within the left, with their voice making governments of the left both less likely and less credible. They're scum like the neo-Nazis, but unlike neo-Nazis, they're supported by a sizeable cadre of idiots.

Fortunately they are mostly only found in the opinion section of the guardian and thus are largely ignorable.

[Pannonian]

Fortunately they are mostly only found in the opinion section of the guardian and thus are largely ignorable.

They help perpetuate right wing governments by discrediting the left.

[Greyblades]

Hey man, I said they were ignorable, I didnt say noone listens to them.