This is from the Rivers of Blood speech. On whether foreign students could be classed as immigrants, Theresa May is to the right of Enoch Powell.pic.twitter.com/V9ji0iTI5j
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Absolutely, but the term typically doesn’t carry the same meanings here. As mentioned, immigrants have a right to classes teaching them about German culture, etc. Completion of this course is sufficient evidence of duty to assimilate, not some subjective criteria of life style.
In many ways, I suppose the German bureaucracy works for their favor here. In an anti-Kafka-esque way, if you have the form saying you have completed your assimilation training, then the government says you have assimilated, regardless of other “IRL” factors.
I'm not a brown or black person in Germany, but I am a very very tiny globally ethnic minority in the UK and your comments are under an OP about the UK.
Yes. What I was hoping to do is more so contrast EU and German classifications of “non-immigrant” to demonstrate that the term alone is not inherently a bad classification. The UK, however, is not handling any part of immigration well.
It isn't. I'm an immigrant, I moved to the UK when I was 18 and stayed. However, technically using the technical home office jargon I'm not. All because I happened to have inherited a UK passport. However somebody who moved to the UK at say 5 years old, isn't an immigrant. But..
But again using home office jargon, they now are. One can't dismantle the BS of the home office if one just accepts their jargon. I refuse to.
Previously these same people who moved when they were children, weren't immigrants in the eyes of the home office. Just because they change jargon doesn't change the real use of the word.
Absolutely. This “defining people out of a class” is the favorite way of removing rights from people, and it is disgusting.
Tog =too much
"failure to assimilate" has to be one of the most (crypto) fascist ideas around.
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