dbd33

Yes. I don't defend his politics but the scenes in the film in which Moore chases the decrepit and no longer coherent Heston around his house demanding that he account for all the excesses of the NRA are really quite squalid. It's a shame Heston was no longer in a condition to grab a gun and chase Moore off the porch.

hawkman

As I've said numerous times on this thread, I'm not here to debate politics, so I'm not getting in to a debate with you or anyone else on this topic.

I will try and recollect where I obtained this information and then post it for you.

You may then redirect to your compliants to the relevant source!

dbd33

We're pointing that your perceptions about the country to which you are planning to emigrate are wrong. You won't find that there's a great deal more literacy here than there. That's not politics but fact.

Politics would be debating the reasons why the UK, a country with relatively few immigrants, does not have a dramatically higher rate of literacy in English than Canada, a country where a significant proportion of the population was educated in a language other than English.

Bigstar14

You haven't been back for a while then.........?

bazzz

It does have relatively few immigrants compared to Canada. If this is an issue for you, then you should think very carefully about where in Canada, if at all, you want to move.

dbd33

March. London and Hastings. Places where the number and diversity of immigrants is neglible compared to Toronto.

Bigstar14

Easy tiger! I have no issues at all; I'm looking forward to becoming one myself. I'm just commenting on what went before.

Bigstar14

Well I think we're doing pretty well for diversity in London: there are over 300languages spoken here (according to Ken Livingstone this week).

dbd33

Are there really 300 languages in the world? The garbage pick up calendar here only comes in seventy odd.

The_Bax

yeah - 299 of them are different brands of BS spouted by politicians...

Bigstar14

Well there's more than 70 (including dialects) just in Europe.

dbd33

Well, yes, if you include dialects the count is infinite but it's not usual to have the phone menu offer service in dialects "for service in a west country lilt press 1".

Bigstar14

Well you'd be f**ked if you spoke basque then...
...and mildy annoyed!

dbd33

Nah, that'd just be like being from Quebec, speakers of basque or Quebec French also need to speak the mainstream variation of their language.

jimmydean

I love many of the aspects of diverse communities, I have travelled extensively across the world and feel that those with more diverse communities I have visited feel mature and more rounded and somehow safer....an example of a culture in which I felt uncomfortable and not included was Japan...I think their isolationist policy during 19th century has a lot to do with it still

.....there are some drawbacks sometimes though especially when the changes happen quickly.......in my opinion this is unlikely to happen quickly in Canada looking at the background origins of the majority of the quarter of a million immigrants each year

..only passing comment...........from UK Press yesterday....Market Town of Boston, Lincolnshire 70,000 inhabitants.......65 languages spoken official number of that population from Eastern Europe is nearly 18,000 but believed to be much higher due to non registration on local authority files

the local police are now giving crash courses to local officers in basic Polish, Portuguese and Lithuanian so that they can communicate with the local people

working in that town would be quite interesting....