Our leaders increasingly see fit to lecture the ethnic minorities on the need to integrate, including of course the need to speak English. What about the need, though, for Britain to integrate with the rest of the world?
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In the United Kingdom, we need to promote an inclusive British identity that involves and empowers people from all ethnic and faith backgrounds.
We need Britain not only to stay in the E.U. but to be very active in it.
Why on earth do we want closer connection with England? We have little in common with English people except our language. We are fast becoming an entirely different people.
It's almost a responsibility for all the people of the United Kingdom, regardless of race, color or creed, and an understanding that you have an individual connection with each and every one.
I feel that as the world becomes more and more multicultural, it's a good tool to be able to speak another language.
English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.
Move beyond the educated elite, and the great majority in most countries outside Europe don't speak English.
To become an American citizen, we require people to read, write and speak in English. That is to help them to assimilate in our melting pot, truly to become Americans. We mock that when the cherished right to vote does not involve English any more.
With the issue of immigration, it's very difficult because, although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England, the more the British identity disappears.
Americans don't care what your language is, your race is, whatever. Everyone is there to do their own thing and be successful. I wish people in Britain would be more positive.