Sunith D Velho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paris is the largest tourist destination in the > world but try asking a Parisian for directions in > any language other than perfect French and see the > response you will get, whatever your race.
Sunith, Not true. If you make the effort to ask any Parisian any question in French, however bad your command of the language is, the Parisian will go out of his/her way to help you. On the other hand, if you ask the same person the same question in English, the Parisian will give you the classical "rude French" answer. > I have however been amazed with the official > (government) support for multi-culturalism here > in the UK. Notices from the town council in the > borough where I live are translated into Bengali, > Turkish, Punjabi, Hindi and Urdu( besides English > of course). You can phone for translations into > almost any major world language. I don't believe > I have heard of such pratices anywhere else in the > world! Well Canada has similar, if not better programs. Our primary schools teach all the languages listed above. Our public library's have books/Cd's/materials in several languages. All you have to do is request the material and if there is enough demand, the material will be supplied. Mervyn3.0 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Goanet supports BMX, the alumni network of Britto's, St Mary's and Xavier's -- three prominent institutions in Mapusa, Goa. Events scheduled from Dec 16 to 21, 2006 For more details visit http://www.bmxgoa.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------
