Re: Foriegners who refuse to assimilate rise to municipal power...

parris_k@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

I applaud your consistenvy, if not your misanothropism. I've been
living aborad for a few years now and sling the local lingo with
consumate ease.

That's a different matter. My complaint is with people who travel to another country and make no effort to learn the language to an adequate degree and mingle with the indigenous people. It can be put down to a form of culture shock having grown up in Norfolk and then moved to London.
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