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If all those families moved to Germany because there was no future in Turkey, it's highly unlikely that learning Turkish will do any good for them. I think the

by tql 8y ago

If all those families moved to Germany because there was no future in Turkey, it's highly unlikely that learning Turkish will do any good for them. I think the objective of a public education has to be to improve the lives of people, if they want to learn Turkish or Klingon they should pay for it themselves. Also I can imagine that adding a new language choice is very expensive.

amaccuish 8y ago
> If all those families moved to Germany because there was no future in Turkey, it's highly unlikely that learning Turkish will do any good for them The classes are for people who only speak German. People emigrating from Turkey likely speak Turkish. It's about understanding other cultures, and the ones most relevent. Just like how in England, along with learning about christianity, we learnt about Islam. It's like in the US, Spanish is the most popular second language taught in schools, since you're very close to large numbers of spanish speakers, and have a high number of spanish-speaking migrants. In the UK, amongst a load of other reasons, until very recently French was the most poopular second language in schools, since France is pretty close to us.
- tql 8y ago
  Germans don't have to learn about Turks. Turks have to learn about Germans and blend in. If they can't, that's a very serious failure.
  - amaccuish 8y ago
    You seemed to have ignored several of my points, which leads me to believe that you're not debatting in good faith. > Germans don't have to learn about Turks Why not? If they reside in the same country, mutual culteral understanding can be key for integration. > Turks have to learn about Germans and blend in We can have both, Germans learn a bit of Turkish, Turks learn German, where's the problem? > If they can't, that's a very serious failure. Where above is it indicated that Turks are failing to learn German?

by tql 8y ago

amaccuish 8y ago

> If all those families moved to Germany because there was no future in Turkey, it's highly unlikely that learning Turkish will do any good for them The classes are for people who only speak German. People emigrating from Turkey likely speak Turkish. It's about understanding other cultures, and the ones most relevent. Just like how in England, along with learning about christianity, we learnt about Islam. It's like in the US, Spanish is the most popular second language taught in schools, since you're very close to large numbers of spanish speakers, and have a high number of spanish-speaking migrants. In the UK, amongst a load of other reasons, until very recently French was the most poopular second language in schools, since France is pretty close to us.

tql 8y ago
Germans don't have to learn about Turks. Turks have to learn about Germans and blend in. If they can't, that's a very serious failure.
- amaccuish 8y ago
  You seemed to have ignored several of my points, which leads me to believe that you're not debatting in good faith. > Germans don't have to learn about Turks Why not? If they reside in the same country, mutual culteral understanding can be key for integration. > Turks have to learn about Germans and blend in We can have both, Germans learn a bit of Turkish, Turks learn German, where's the problem? > If they can't, that's a very serious failure. Where above is it indicated that Turks are failing to learn German?