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Originally Posted by dizzyblonde
There are a lot of ignorant brits. My best mate accepted to live like the French when she moved over there, shes turned her back on the UK.. she can't stand the ignorant lot that she unfortunately has to call aquaintances over there, that lord it about like the archetypal englishman.
If you live in a country, you should adapt to the ways of the land. I'm sure when the mayor of her town accepted her and her family, they shook hands, and spoke French (she only speaks English on the phone to here these days and in her own home of course)
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I'd consider it an honour to stand up for another country's national anthem, and to shake the mayors hand if I was being offered citizenship in a foreign land. Then you adopt and change to how the locals work and live. You wouldn't expect to be spoken to in english all the time when living in or visiting France, wouldn't you??? At least learn the lingo, that way the locals can see you are trying to adapt, and they respect you more, and even help you. Speak in constant english in France, and you're almost certainly going to be called ignorant...and be ignored most of the time..