Wow that's racist!!!

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Originally Posted by steve_spackman

what does pee my off though is the fact that they come over to our shores, yet cant be bothered to speak English and expect us to cater for them...No chance mate!!

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Gee Steve....that aint racist? It ever occur to you that their ability to speak English is going to be limited until they have been there a while. I know this might be a shock, but the majority of the world still doesn't speak English. Just giving you the update lad....

And a large area of Newcastle is predominately Pakistani / Indian, do I complain about it? No! I go there and buy lots of nice things :p

Pakistani food is hot and spicy, can you handle it? :)

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Originally Posted by leopardsleeping

Pakistani food is hot and spicy, can you handle it? :)

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Let me think. .. Sometimes, yes :p

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Originally Posted by Fred Basset

I moved to a country where i could speak the language well.

The Euros that come to UK in a lot of cases can not speak the language or if they can, its very poor. All part of the reason i had to move away when i would walk up my high st and find that i was the odd one out listening to all the languages that were being spoken. To be able to enjoy the benefits of living in UK, you should be able to speak English well enough to be able to carry out a conversation.. whats wrong with my thinking that???

Its a sad day when someone considers on this forum that i'm the one with the problem when all i want is for people that come to the UK to enjoy the benefits of living there that i just think that they should be able to talk in English to an acceptable level

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The Polish girl I work with can speak English well. She just has an accent that makes it noticeable that she isn't English. But the accent isn't the issue here. The issue is that the customer made it quite obvious that she disapproved of the Polish person being here, and referred to her as 'another one', which is just plain rude.

Same issue as many Brits going to live in Spain without proper knowledge of Spanish.

I've lost count of the amount of times I've seen house programmes where a couple want to move to live in Spain and find work there, and yet can't speak a word of Spanish!

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Originally Posted by Brown, Jon Brow

The Polish girl I work with can speak English well. She just has an accent that makes it noticeable that she isn't English. But the accent isn't the issue here. The issue is that the customer made it quite obvious that she disapproved of the Polish person being here, and referred to her as 'another one', which is just plain rude.

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I'd say rude was being rather too polite to the bigot.

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Originally Posted by steve_spackman

what does pee my off though is the fact that they come over to our shores, yet cant be bothered to speak English and expect us to cater for them...No chance mate!!

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How about expat Brits in France, Spain, Portugal who can't be bothered to learn the lingo and boost inflated pricing in housing so that the locals miss out?

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Originally Posted by Mark in Oshawa

Gee Steve....that aint racist? It ever occur to you that their ability to speak English is going to be limited until they have been there a while. I know this might be a shock, but the majority of the world still doesn't speak English. Just giving you the update lad....

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I think what Steve refers to are the ones that never want to learn the language of the country they moved to no matter how long they live there. It should be a a req that you learn the language over a period of time

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Originally Posted by Fred Basset

It should be a a req that you learn the language over a period of time

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It is.