[bambu]

andyt andyt:

We've also had serious proposals to make Mandarin and Punjabi official languages, so then he would be talking about first language rights.

Funny, there's a fuss in Richmond about stores having signs and service in Mandarin only. To complain about that is deemed racist. Yet switch roles, and it's the store that's being racist now. Just goes to show, only white people can be racist.

Won't be long now until Canada is 'China'/'India'...White people are the minority and all that entails.

[ShepherdsDog]

@FoG
nuh uh...the so called Chinese English teachers rarely use English in their classes. They concentrate on teaching grammar for their fake tests.....grammar that they have no clue how to use(this is exhibited on those rare occasions they do try and speak English). Some of the best English I heard while over there, was from taxi drivers, retail clerks or merchant sailors

[Unsound]

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

Unsound Unsound:

Probably a smart business move to hire a mandarin speaker in that area, but it is a business decision and i would hope no human rights tribunal get involved. Wouldn't surprise me if they did though, the word discrimination is like blood in the water for those folks.

The same restaurant will need Mandarin/Punjabi/Farsi/Portuguese speaking counter people.

Think: Lingua Franca

Portuguese seems like a stretch...

If it was my restaurant I'd probably make a small effort to have a mandarin speaker around. Wouldn't go out of my way really, but it would be something that would catch my eye on an application.

[JaredMilne]

OnTheIce OnTheIce:

This is Canada. Learn English.

Or French, right?

Or preferably both?

Isn't this the same thing francophone Quebecers are complaining about with people who don't bother learning French in their province?

[BRAH]

Try going to Tim Hortons.

[Freakinoldguy]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

@FoG
nuh uh...the so called Chinese English teachers rarely use English in their classes. They concentrate on teaching grammar for their fake tests.....grammar that they have no clue how to use(this is exhibited on those rare occasions they do try and speak English). Some of the best English I heard while over there, was from taxi drivers, retail clerks or merchant sailors

Then she'd better get her lazy fat ass back home and sign up on a tramp steamer.

But I guess they aren't at all like the Japanese who relish in speaking English and bother every round eye they see practicing it.