I mean, genuinely, how? It’s not saying you need to be Japanese to enter, just that you need to be able to read Japanese. IMO, learning the local language of a country you plan to visit is a basic courtesy that too many people don’t bother with.
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20cello@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Still racist
Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Dookieman12@piefed.social 1 month ago
“I’m tired of all these immigrants coming over here and not even being able to speak the language. This is [country] and we speak [language] here!”
That’s what you sound like.
Viceversa@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s their country. Aren’t they entitled to make rules?
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 1 month ago
If you tie the availability of housing to whatever language someone speaks instead of something tangible related to the respective person, it’s racism.
I used Google Lens to translate the bottom text. Do you think that if i would go in there using my phone to translate i would get a room for the night?
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Do you believe that anyone existing in America must speak English and only English? If a couple next to you at a cafe are speaking French to each other do you tell them to go back home?
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
“This is [Barcelona] and we speak [Catalan] here!”
Is this suddenly a different situation?
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
… How many countries have you ever visited to say that
Like, being able to speak the very basics I agree. Numbers, hello and goodbye, thank you, etc.
But “If you can read this, you may come in” is pretty advanced. Like, probably requiring weeks of daily study level advanced to be able to understand.
untorquer@quokk.au 1 month ago
Solidly A2 (European system) with that grammar(English translation) so 3-6 months (1-2 terms of university course).
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
You’re right, in Barcelona they write “Tourists go home” in plain English in order to accommodate foreigners who aren’t fluent in Catalan!
20cello@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Exactly
BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Jim Crow literacy tests have entered the chat
M137@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Ah, yes, everyone whould spend months to learn the language of every country they visit even though they might be there for only a few days.
How are you this dumb? I highly doubt you’ve ever been outside the country you were born in, and if you have you certainly didn’t follow your own thought here.
Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Christ Almighty dude, calm down. Yeah, maybe my comment was ignorant crap, but why jump straight to ad hominem? Do you think you’re actually going to change anyone’s opinion by calling them stupid straight off the bat?
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 month ago
It wasn’t saying it wasn’t tho