German Students Should Take Compulsory Arabic Lessons

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A senior German educator has called for all pupils in the country to be forced to study Arabic until they graduate in the interests of the multicultural state.

Professor of Computer Science Thomas Strothotte and President of a private Hamburg university has argued that German children should be forced to learn Arabic alongside German so they would better understand the country’s 1.5 million new migrants and make them feel more welcome. He said it would help Germany become “a country of immigration, and a multilingual society”.


Germany is discussing frankly the problems of integrating over one million migrants that have arrived over the past year, especially in the light of the brutal sex attacks that have been blamed by some on a clash of cultures.


Some have called for newly arrived migrants to be taught about European norms, culture, and language, but professor Strothotte has suggested teaching Germans Arabic instead will “strengthen integration”, reports Die Welt.


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Calls For All German Students To Take Compulsory Arabic To Help Build Multicultural Society


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You should means if Jews had learned German things might have been different.

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They should have made Germans learn French 80 years ago, it would have prevented WW2
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So they could understand, 'Don't shoot, we give up.'
 
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MHz said:
You should means if Jews had learned German things might have been different.
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They did. The Jews speak/spoke a dialect of Low German called "Yiddish". Hebrew was for their scholars, only.
 
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Hebrew was to remind them that they were not part of the German culture. Define scholar as Jews were quite involved in all the political and educational aspects of the 'higher German way of life) rather than being modest workers and shop keepers. Publication such as news papers were controlled by Hebrew speaking Jews rather than Yiddish speaking ones. Yiddish alsdo sepwerated them from the mainstream citizens who did not speak yiddish.

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In 1933 the largest Jewish populations were concentrated in eastern Europe, including Poland, the Soviet Union, Hungary, and Romania. Many of the Jews of eastern Europe lived in predominantly Jewish towns or villages, called shtetls. Eastern European Jews lived a separate life as a minority within the culture of the majority. They spoke their own language, Yiddish, which combines elements of German and Hebrew. They read Yiddish books, and attended Yiddish theater and movies. Although many younger Jews in larger towns were beginning to adopt modern ways and dress, older people often dressed traditionally, the men wearing hats or caps, and the women modestly covering their hair with wigs or kerchiefs.
In comparison, the Jews in western Europe—Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, and Belgium—made up much less of the population and tended to adopt the culture of their non-Jewish neighbors. They dressed and talked like their countrymen, and traditional religious practices and Yiddish culture played a less important part in their lives. They tended to have had more formal education than eastern European Jews and to live in towns or cities.
Jews could be found in all walks of life, as farmers, tailors, seamstresses, factory hands, accountants, doctors, teachers, and small-business owners. Some families were wealthy; many more were poor. Many children ended their schooling early to work in a craft or trade; others looked forward to continuing their education at the university level. Still, whatever their differences, they were the same in one respect: by the 1930s, with the rise of the Nazis to power in Germany, they all became potential victims, and their lives were forever changed.

Jewish Life in Europe Before the Holocaust
 
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Locutus; said:
A senior German educator has called for all pupils in the country to be forced to study Arabic until they graduate in the interests of the multicultural state.

Professor of Computer Science Thomas Strothotte and President of a private Hamburg university has argued that German children should be forced to learn Arabic alongside German so they would better understand the country’s 1.5 million new migrants and make them feel more welcome. He said it would help Germany become “a country of immigration, and a multilingual society”.
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By the way, as usual for Breitbart, they fail to note that the vast majority of Muslims in Germany are Turkish, not Arabic. Therefore, if the educator wants to accelerate integration he should encourage the study of Turkish which is widely spoken in Central Asia and in some Arabia countries.
 
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You spelled Syria wrong. Why would Turkish Muslims head north when it is Syrian Muslims that are the displaced people??
 
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At least 20% of the Turks living in Germany are actually Kurds displaced by the internal wars going on within Turkey's borders and Kurdistan. Many displaced Syrians and Iraqis are also Kurds and probably don't even speak Arabic (their language is closer to Farsi) which further proves that Strothotte's thesis is totally wrong (again, assuming Breitbart's report is authentic.
 
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Nope. All immigrants to Germany should have to learn German. End of.

petros said:
They should have made Germans learn French 80 years ago, it would have prevented WW2
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B00Mer said:
I think Spanish should be compulsory in the USA and Canada..
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Why? Most Dagos can speak English. Modern European languages like Spanish, French and German - the languages of declining nations - should be phased out in schools and replaced by Mandarin, the most-spoken language in the country which is about to overtake Yankeeland as the world's largest economy and world superpower.
 
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Why should? No should, should be. :iconbiggrin:

I asked Abu abd-Allah: Is it necessary that non-Arab Mulsims should learn Arabic?
He said: No.
 
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