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Re: "Parallel societies"

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On 28/06/26 15:11, Hibou wrote:
>
> Some migrants don't mix, it's true. This is true of some British
> people on the Continent:
>
> "Many of those I spoke to felt that they managed quite well in French
> on a 'need to know basis', relying on more competent acquaintances to
>  translate documents and even accompany them to hospital
> appointments. However, such dependency contradicts the idea of being
> integrated.

I was partly guilty of this during the year in which I lived in the USA.
My friends were mostly from British Commonwealth or former Commonwealth
countries At times we used to sit around griping about the difficulty of
understanding those crazy Americans. My mother-in-law often mailed us
food parcels (although not on my request). I drove a Japanese car, which
at the time was an Australian thing to do.

Still, I made some effort to integrate. I worked hard at learning to
speak American. At Thanksgiving I ate pumpkin pie without grimacing. I
spoke to people at bus stops. So I'll give myself a score of 50%.

-- 
Peter Moylan       peter@pmoylan.org    http://www.pmoylan.org
Newcastle, NSW

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"Parallel societies" occam <occam@nowhere.nix> - 2026-06-27 08:00 +0200
  Re: "Parallel societies" Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-06-28 11:07 +1000
    Re: "Parallel societies" Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-06-28 06:11 +0100
      Re: "Parallel societies" Bertel Lund Hansen <rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> - 2026-06-28 10:42 +0200
      Re: "Parallel societies" nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-06-28 11:01 +0200
      Re: "Parallel societies" Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-06-28 21:08 +1000
        Re: "Parallel societies" occam <occam@nowhere.nix> - 2026-06-28 13:41 +0200
          Re: "Parallel societies" Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-06-29 10:14 +1000
            Re: "Parallel societies" wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) - 2026-06-29 00:55 +0000
            Re: "Parallel societies" athel.cb@gmail.com <user12588@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-06-29 15:04 +0000
        Re: "Parallel societies" Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-06-28 14:46 +0100
    Re: "Parallel societies" Bertel Lund Hansen <rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> - 2026-06-28 10:40 +0200
      Re: "Parallel societies" liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) - 2026-06-28 15:32 +0100
        Re: "Parallel societies" Bertel Lund Hansen <rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> - 2026-06-28 17:24 +0200

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