Is it socially acceptable to speak your native language in a foreign country?

Funny that English people moan about this when most tourists make no attempt to speak the language of the country they're visiting...

If they're speaking between themselves in their own groups, what's the problem? Everyone should at least try to speak the native language when conversing with locals. Also, gaelic isn't exactly replacing the local language in scotland when it was the bloody local language for ages (welsh isn't gaelic - it's not even from the same branch)

Should we accept people speaking foreign languages in British society?

What happens when more people come from a particular background, or culture, and continue to speak in their own native tongue, within their own communities? Is this good for social cohesion? Is it 'multicultural' or divisive?

Should people in the UK speak English? Or should we all speak Spanish, Arabic, Polish, Dutch, German, or whatever the cultural Marxists have deemed should be the language which displaces the majority dialect.

Would it be fair if millions of British people suddenly decided to move to France, live in a specific community in France, speak English and demand that everyone around them accept it?

We can already see this in the US (the Democrats - the party which opposed the abolition of slavery and gave rise to the KKK - are attempting to displace the existing population with migrant communities largely to shore up their own vote counts), and we can even in Scotland and Wales, where nationalism is attempting to displace the common language with regional variations (i.e., Gaelic).

Uh... yeah it's fine for people to spea whatever language they want.

The only case where this is rude is when - and this happened to me in uni halls - you walk into the kitchen and there's your flatmate and her friend and they are both speaking Chinese when it's the three of you in the kitchen. Its not OK to speak a foreign language if there is someone else with you who doesnt speak that language because you are excluding them. Its just bad manners. So it was ok for them to speak Chinese amongs them when they were alone but when I walk into the kitchen and they are excluding me, thats rude and annoying. All three of us are in England all three of us can speak English so yeah. I would never do that.

1. I'm not English.
2. I live in the UK, I didn't choose to leave the UK.
3. If I chose to live elsewhere, I'd speak the native tongue.

In a community of Polish people, or Bangladeshi people, or Romanian people, what is the local language? What is local? Areas of the UK are pre-dominated by Bangladeshi people.

What if cultures congregate together, socialise within and marry within, all refusing to adopt the native tongue, while more from their culture arrive and refuse to adapt to the host culture or adopt the native dialect?

1 year it's 5% of the population, 25 years later it's 10% of the population, 100 years later it's 40% of the population. Soon enough, the majority is the minority - in any given area of the UK - and the local language is the language of the new majority.

Why is it unacceptable to speak another language other than English in your presence? Multiculturalism dictates that all cultures are equally valid, and capable of living side-by-side. Value systems may conflict, but 'tolerance and diversity' dictates that it's their culture, it's their background, it's their decision.

What if the demographics of the UK were to become 51% people of Chinese descent.

Is the definition of what constitutes the 'native tongue' a game of numerics?

Would it be fair if millions of British people suddenly decided to move to France, live in a specific community in France, speak English and demand that everyone around them accept it?

So basically you're scared that one person not speaking English will mean that suddenly the entire population of a country will take over? That's absolutely absurd and has absolutely no basis for believing beyond quasi-racist scaremongering.


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That is not what I said. Think about it a little harder.

PS: English isn't my native language and I am not British. Also, take your meds.

Why, much like the previous poster, are you attacking me rather than the points I'm making? Why can't just debate on point without resorting to insulting people?

The issue is a politicised one. It was politicised by New Labour. I'm talking about the politics of it. What's the problem?

If the population of the UK was to, someday, become 51% Chinese ancestry/migration, would it be rude to speak English in the presence of the majority population?

They should be able to speak both.

It's not absurd at all. We import 320,000 people per year. One day, some day, resident British people will be a minority. That's just a statistical fact.

That didn't take very long. We'll import millions of migrants, we'll politicise the issue beyond all recognition, but to talk about it is 'racist.'

There's nothing quite like exploiting racism to score political points and make others conform with your politically correct group think, eh? And progressives wonder why they receive such short shrift from people, when the very issue they politicise is apparently so sacrosanct it's beyond the confines of debate or even conversation without the presence of a false accusation of racism.

I mean, it's totally not damaging either - it's not like flinging false accusations of racism around have caused any negative cultural or social consequences of the grooming gang variety, right?

People who live in a country should have sufficient functional command of the native language to get through day-to-day existence without needing an interpreter to access public services.

I couldn't care less what people do the rest of the time. Language enclaves are very bad for 'cohesion' but I feel better about language enclaves than I do about language policing.

What happens when they interact with you? Should they speak Polish, German, Mandarin, Arabic or English?

What if they don't know English? Is that acceptable? Surely if they live in their own communities within the UK yet separated from British society, it's acceptable to speak in their native dialect without learning English? Why learn English when you don't come across people who speak English (in England)?