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Originally Posted by Darby

Well just to make your bad mood worse:


I thought if you integrated, there was only 1 community? I'm English, but live in a true and singular German community, and I know this is well appreciated by my neighbours.
The Turks live in their own ghettos, and have created their own community, distincly apart from the rest of the Germans. No different to the UK really!!

There's no excuse for not integrating, except that they don't want too. Is that the way for a guest to behave?? I for one would welcome anybody who wanted to work and live in the old English way!!

Hehehehe, Darby, how could you possibly make my mood worse? What you have said is true. There are lots of different races and religions living in the UK, and in some areas people haven't integrated well, learned the language etc. I was talking to a woman who has lived here for 20 years (since the age of 16) through an interpreter because she claimed to speak no English. How can this be possible when one of our students who is Kosovan and came to Blackburn with the refugees at the age of 14 is now fluent, has passed all her NVQ's and is in Nurse training, and I can vouch that her verbal and written English are excellent (she's been here roughly 6 years). I think that different races have got to want to integrate, if they don't want to then they just won't, no matter how hard everybody tries.