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By Pants-of-dog
#14904794
Please stop quoting my posts. You either do not understand what I said, or you are being willfully obtuse.

There are clear benefits for people living in multicultural societies to learn additional languages.
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By One Degree
#14904796
Pants-of-dog wrote:Please stop quoting my posts. You either do not understand what I said, or you are being willfully obtuse.

There are clear benefits for people living in multicultural societies to learn additional languages.


Okay, you win. Help me out though by prioritizing which of the over 7,000 languages it is politically correct to require me to learn first.
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By Pants-of-dog
#14904839
One Degree wrote:Okay, you win. Help me out though by prioritizing which of the over 7,000 languages it is politically correct to require me to learn first.


Where exactly do you live?
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By One Degree
#14904862
Pants-of-dog wrote:Where exactly do you live?


Are you threatening me? Just kidding.
I live right next to the Indianapolis city line. My city is listed as 91% white, but only 89% speak English. 8% are foreign born. This is basically meaningless since we are so interrelated with Indianapolis.
We have a large number of very small communities from a huge variety of cultures.
By Pants-of-dog
#14904878
One Degree wrote:Are you threatening me? Just kidding.
I live right next to the Indianapolis city line. My city is listed as 91% white, but only 89% speak English. 8% are foreign born. This is basically meaningless since we are so interrelated with Indianapolis.
We have a large number of very small communities from a huge variety of cultures.


I would suggest learning Spanish and Miami.
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By One Degree
#14904886
Pants-of-dog wrote:I would suggest learning Spanish and Miami.


I am totally incompetent at learning new languages. My surface memory seems to only hold concepts. Individually memorized items get buried deep. My two daughter in laws, that do not have English as a first language, live too far away to give me a daily opportunity to gradually acquire it.
The most common minority I encounter is probably Sikh. Or perhaps, they are just more obvious.
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By One Degree
#14904928
Pants-of-dog wrote:I did not ask you about your personal life.

You should also learn Punjabi if you are in contact with Sikhs.

‘Should’ learn? Why should I live my life based upon your rules? My view was it was more logical for everyone to learn English, than me to learn all the other languages in my area. Now, if I ‘want’ to learn another language, that has nothing to do with you or our discussion.
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One Degree wrote:‘Should’ learn? Why should I live my life based upon your rules? My view was it was more logical for everyone to learn English, than me to learn all the other languages in my area. Now, if I ‘want’ to learn another language, that has nothing to do with you or our discussion.


It is a fact that ethnic diversity will increase in the developed world for the foreseeable future.

This means that it will be more and more necessary for us to learn to live with people of different cultures around us.

The best way to learn about another culture is to learn the language. It also has benefits in terms of being able to clearly communicate with people from these other cultures, even if they also speak English.

So, if you want to have the best life possible in tomorrow’s ethnically diverse communities, you should learn English, Spanish, and Punjabi.

Also, many people argue that immigrants should learn the local language. If you agree with this proposition, you should also learn Miami.

Or you could ignore the fact that there are more people of different cultures around you, and simply force them all to learn your language, but I cannot see a reason why someone should do that.

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