Hey guys don't get so offensive because I didn’t have any intention to offence anybody. I've just described moments from the experience I lived during the English classes which I have taken when I arrived in Canada. I was within this atmosphere for 2 years and I know exactly how the things are regarding this matter...
No, Hardware, you are wrong again, the people what I am referring to were not old at all. Their age must have been ranging somewhere between 30-40 years; and more than that, the majority of them was very high educated, (engineers, doctors, lawyers, economists). IN other words, they apparently knew very well their mother tongue...
Hardware, I never said that the Germans speaking English as the native English speaking people? But that was not the subject of discussion, nor the reason why I interfered in here. Of course, the Germans have a specific accent and a specific pronunciation when they speak English (or another language but their tongue). I wouldn't deny that if I would have been asked about it.
In fact more than 95% of people, who are learning other languages than the mother tongue at an adult age, cannot lose the accent easy. That is a fact. But somebody said that Romanians can be easy taken as Slavic speaking people when they use English and I contradicted him because I know for certain that this is not true. At the beginning, when I first listened to them speaking during the classes, I thought, they were Italians but then in the break time, when I approached a couple of them, I found out that they were Romanians...
Allessandro, I believe you that you don't hate Romanians but I usually read many German Newspapers online and I know how bad you guys treat Romanians who are in your country at this moment. You actually insulted the whole nation and that because of some idiots who in fact, are present everywhere and in every nation.
I know that we, Germans, have a bad past and I hope, we have learned our lesson, and although I might not be entitled to speak about it, I will do it and I will tell you something what every Germans knows, but don't want to speak about.. After the second WW, many Italians have come to Deutschland and did a lot of bad things including killings, robberies, rapes etc. It has been a very difficult time for us, (my Father told me that). There were not too many men remained in the country and our widowed women (and not only), have been very often molested, raped, even killed by Italians and us never, but never judged the whole nation after those barbarian acts. In Germany, by that time have immigrated people from other nations as well, Turks, Spanish, Portuguese but none of them proved to behave so wild as the Italians and that's why, your reaction towards Romanians was very surprising and very disappointing in our eyes. You guys, should have been known better your immigration past before lunching ugly attacks on the others.
On the other hand, Germany was facing a very high number of immigrants from Romania in the 90s. I was still living there by that time. They came in two main waves: one in 1990-1991, very quiet and good people, and another one in 1993-1995 and after which didn't prove the same quality as the first one. They did a lot of stupid things, many stores have gotten bankrupt because of the stealing, many citizens became angry but I don't recall hearing anybody, not politicians nor neo-Nazi, blaming the whole Romanian nation because of them.
Anyway, the way you react against them, made me think that you might hate them entirely. About Hungarians, I know for sure because some Hungarians, who I'm working with here, have told me that in a few occasions. They hate Romanians from other reasons then you...but hate is hate and it is very ugly and rude. I know that there are Germans hating Turks and foreigners in general too but, Gott sei dank; they are just a small percent out of our nation.
Take care!
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