Asylum map of Britain

Rich_L · 5 Jun 2006 at 14:36

Does a single person being sent to a town counts as that language being present?

Freefaller · 5 Jun 2006 at 14:37

If a comment offends you - don't quote it, report it - it makes my job a lot longer to clean up the posts, and I want to go back to the sun with my beer

fozzybear · 5 Jun 2006 at 14:37

FTM said:
15. SOUTH TYNESIDE: Farsi, French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Kurdish, Latvian, Lingala, Polish, Tigrean, Tamil, Arabic, Turkish, English.

hmmm they cant have tried to research this very hard...we have a large Bangladeshi population but managed to have missed them off the list..in fact all our delicious currys are made by Bangladeshis...

plus I thought Bangladeshis used Bengali

I don't know why, but the high number of immigrants in the North East really surprised me.

cleanbluesky · 5 Jun 2006 at 14:38

Rich_L said:
Does a single person being sent to a town counts as that language being present?

Probably a threshold, defined by local government and reflected in the translation budget so that all their regular letters can be translated to effective deal with those that refuse to or feel they cannot learn english...

cleanbluesky · 5 Jun 2006 at 14:38

fozzybear said:
I don't know why, but the high number of immigrants in the North East really surprised me.

Again, I see no map... I dont see how you are working out the number of immigrants (also, the artcle claims to deal with asylum seekers rather than immigrants)

Freefaller · 5 Jun 2006 at 14:38

Zip said:
Correct, its perfectly acceptable.

I Edited my post anyway

It's not here.

You're on a British board remember.

FTM · 5 Jun 2006 at 14:39

I thought so

http://www.flw.com/languages/bengali.htm

bengalie the national language of Bangladesh

the daily mail have

Banani: Bangladesh

who writes this guff??

Indy500 · 5 Jun 2006 at 14:39

Some train and underground stations near me have the signs in 5 different Asian languages...

cleanbluesky · 5 Jun 2006 at 14:40

Freefaller said:
If a comment offends you - don't quote it, report it - it makes my job a lot longer to clean up the posts, and I want to go back to the sun with my beer

Here's an interesting idea Freefaller, as a foreigner do you feel that such 'anti-immigration' comments also reflect on you?

Vonhelmet · 5 Jun 2006 at 14:40

FTM said:
I thought so

http://www.flw.com/languages/bengali.htm

bengalie the national language of Bangladesh

the daily mail have

Banani: Bangladesh

who writes this guff??

Some countries out that way have many, many recognised languages. Don't even try to start counting how many India has, for example.

Freefaller · 5 Jun 2006 at 14:41

sr4470 said:
Some train and underground stations near me have the signs in 5 different Asian languages...

Why is that a bad thing?

In the States there are signs in spanish nearly everywhere now.

On the continent most signs have translations in english and german and sometimes spanish.

Is that really such a big deal?

As long as they integrate themselves into our society whilst sharing some of the fun parts of theirs, and behave like good citizens, where's the fuss?

Rich_L · 5 Jun 2006 at 14:41

cleanbluesky said:
Probably a threshold, defined by local government and reflected in the translation budget so that all their regular letters can be translated to effective deal with those that refuse to or feel they cannot learn english...

You mean like the Welsh ?

Visage · 5 Jun 2006 at 14:42

FTM said:
I thought so

http://www.flw.com/languages/bengali.htm

bengalie the national language of Bangladesh

the daily mail have

Banani: Bangladesh

who writes this guff??

Mail journalists - though its rather a loose term......

Indy500 · 5 Jun 2006 at 14:42

Freefaller said:
Why is that a bad thing?

In the States there are signs in spanish nearly everywhere now.

On the continent most signs have translations in english and german and sometimes spanish.

Is that really such a big deal?

As long as they integrate themselves into our society whilst sharing some of the fun parts of theirs, and behave like good citizens, where's the fuss?

I was just making an observation, stop reading into it so much.

Tican · 5 Jun 2006 at 14:42

2. LEICESTER: Gujerati, Polish, Latvian, Ukranian, Kishwahli, Swahili, Serbo Croat (Serbian only), Hindi, Mandarin, Turkish, Romanian, French, Somali, Arabic, Pushtu, Farsi, Czech, Dari, English.

A Fair few

Zip · 5 Jun 2006 at 14:43

Freefaller said:
It's not here. You're on a British board remember.

I know.
I just didnt think that people over in the UK would have taken it as an offensive word.
Down here its used a lot and we have the biggest population of Greeks out side of Greece.
They use the word, the italians, Croats yugoslavs use it, so do most other people that the word would be used for. Its perfectly normal for people to use it.

It wasn't used in a derogatory term or trying to be funny either

fozzybear · 5 Jun 2006 at 14:43

cleanbluesky said:
Again, I see no map... I dont see how you are working out the number of immigrants

OK, so perhaps the list (not strictly a map, i know!) just shows the mix of people rather than numbers.

cleanbluesky said:
(also, the artcle claims to deal with asylum seekers rather than immigrants)

So i WAS correct with my OP after all!?

SideWinder · 5 Jun 2006 at 14:43

30. BRIGHTON: Mandarin, Hindi, Arabic, French, Somali, Swahili.

Disagree with some of those..if anything, we have a lot of Spanish here, very few Hindi and Arabic...and Somali? :confused:

Rich_L · 5 Jun 2006 at 14:44

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London

It has historically been known as one of the most ethnically diverse cities in the world, and this continues in the modern day, with more than 300 languages spoken and 50 non-indigenous communities with a population of more than 10,000 living in London

WINNER!!

Freefaller · 5 Jun 2006 at 14:44

cleanbluesky said:
Here's an interesting idea Freefaller, as a foreigner do you feel that such 'anti-immigration' comments also reflect on you?

Nope not really as I'm also english by blood. However my mother used to often be treated as "a stupid foreigner" as she has a somewhat strong French accent - despite being a British hard working tax paying citizen. I think this comes about from very ill educated people reading rubbish newspapers, and that haven't got the power to think themselves and are spoonfed rubbish through the media as if it is the ultimate truth. Lack of education and ignorance is no excuse in my opinion for such animosity towards other people.

Anyway, I'm going back to my beer and the sun - I'll carry on with this later if I can be bothered.