Posted on 02/11/2018 7:54:57 PM PST by SeekAndFind
We can tell illegals till the cows come home that learning English is the real path to assimilation and upward mobility and all we hear is that diversity is "strength" or maybe that we have yanqui imperialista racist prejudices.
But over in India, we are seeing that idea coming to life.
Quartz has a long and utterly fascinating piece by Sajith Pai, titled "India has a new caste for native English speakers only,' describing how English is not only a great skill to have in the global economy, and a path upward in a big striving country such as India, something we all recognize here, too, it's positively trashing India's dreadful caste system and creating a new class of people who speak almost exclusively English, by choice. Pai writes:
Unlike Anglo-Indians, the original English-speaking community in India, who were Christians, Indo-Anglians comprise all religions, though Hindus dominate. Indo-Anglians are also a highly urban lot; concentrated in the top seven large cities of India (Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Pune, Hyderabad, and Kolkata) with a smattering across the smaller towns in the hills and in Goa.
Within these cities, they are clustered in certain pockets: Gurgaon, and parts of south Delhi, south Bombay and Western Suburbs from Bandra to Andheri, Indiranagar, Koramangala and gated communities in Bangalore’s outer ring road—Sarjapur, Koregaon Park—Kalyaninagar, Gachibowli and HiTech City etc. They fall well within the top 1% of India economically and have a consumption basket that is comparable to their middle-class counterparts abroad. Their kids go to International schools and have ‘first-world yoga names’ such as Aryan, Kabir, Kyra, Shanaya, Tia etc 2.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The should pass a law that says you have the right to ask to be transferred to a call center inside the USA.
Despite getting more accustomed, it still gladdens my heart to hear a southern twang or a flat midwestern accent. Such a relief to be able to speak freely and normally, and actually be understood.
The ambitious Indian brethren should get themselves copies of that 19th century bilingual immigrants' guidebook, "English As She Is Spoke," by Pedro Carolino.
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Yeah I wasn’t mentioning indians in general either, just that someone’s different variety of English is a tip off as to a scam at times.
I’ve actually asked AT&T to transfer me to a supervisor in the US to resolve issues.
This is not about throwing stones. It a matter-of-fact and generally well known fact across the world.
https://au.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20131215085434AAJd2BT
I won’t address your comment about my English since this is not a proper forum to brag about spoken and written English for those used to speech, cadence, and grammar as taught in Oxford universities.
You may be an English English speaker, but I bet you sing in American ;)
Wrong! I do not sing - even in the shower.
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