"British people don’t integrate very well into host society"
May 17th 2011, 9:17 pm
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Re: "British people don’t integrate very well into host society"
Nobody should get wound up by someone (the OP) quoting drivel from a presentation at a Housing and Cohesion Conference 3 years ago by someone called Anya Ahmed.
Why not mention the next presentation entitled Can Mixed Neighbourhoods Be Cohesive?
The whole thing smacks of flaming.
Why not mention the next presentation entitled Can Mixed Neighbourhoods Be Cohesive?
The whole thing smacks of flaming.
Read The Guardian article instead. It's signed by a british journalist, not "someone called Ahmed", as you say. Yucks.
Wound? Who is wounding here?
Maybe I didn't choose a reference publication in the first place.
May 17th 2011, 9:19 pm
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Re: "British people don’t integrate very well into host society"
I know what you mean, I live in the Alicante area too. And thanks for that Youtube link, hilarious.
There was a cashier working in the local Mercadona, English born but who came to Spain at the age of 12 with her parents. She looked English but refused to acknowledge that she spoke English when customers asked her something in her native language.
That's integration gone wrong, and I've seen it more than once. The balance can be difficult to achieve. My wife is an interpreter, London born but has lived most of her life in Spain, and with Spanish people, before we met.
Spanish people accept her as Spanish and so do the Brits. Sometimes she gets confused and swears at me in Spanish, and when she has nightmares, it's in Spanish.
I only start to worry when she calls me Joan, albeit in Catalan.
There was a cashier working in the local Mercadona, English born but who came to Spain at the age of 12 with her parents. She looked English but refused to acknowledge that she spoke English when customers asked her something in her native language.
That's integration gone wrong, and I've seen it more than once. The balance can be difficult to achieve. My wife is an interpreter, London born but has lived most of her life in Spain, and with Spanish people, before we met.
Spanish people accept her as Spanish and so do the Brits. Sometimes she gets confused and swears at me in Spanish, and when she has nightmares, it's in Spanish.
I only start to worry when she calls me Joan, albeit in Catalan.
Yes, it is very difficult. We are doing something wrong.
May 17th 2011, 9:20 pm
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Re: "British people don’t integrate very well into host society"
People like that are not "intergrated" they are uncomfortable in their own skin.
May 17th 2011, 9:21 pm
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Re: "British people don’t integrate very well into host society"
Don't worry - there is an expression "to wind up" - a bit similar to the verb provocar. The past tense is "wound", but it's not the verb to wound. Also, I don't think you were winding anyone up - it's been a very interesting thread on the whole.
May 17th 2011, 9:21 pm
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Re: "British people don’t integrate very well into host society"
The post you are referring to was tongue in cheek.
It was saying, that the husband and wife did lots of weird things, but the worst one was eating paella at a late hour, and not to mention it to the neighbours.
The British sense of humour is very sharp and a lot is based on irony, stick around and you will get used to it.
It was saying, that the husband and wife did lots of weird things, but the worst one was eating paella at a late hour, and not to mention it to the neighbours.
The British sense of humour is very sharp and a lot is based on irony, stick around and you will get used to it.
May 17th 2011, 9:25 pm
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Thanks again! (I seem British with so many thanks! haha)
May 17th 2011, 9:30 pm
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Re: "British people don’t integrate very well into host society"
Oh dear, erasing the link to the Ahmed paper at midnight tonight from your first post and then expecting contributors to read an article in the Guardian, a paper reviled by most clear thinking people.
You are having a laugh arent you?
May 17th 2011, 9:49 pm
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May 17th 2011, 9:53 pm
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Re: "British people don’t integrate very well into host society"
I didn't erase anything (just a silly question "What do you think?" or something like that, in my first post). The link is still there.