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<blockquote data-quote="Marg's Man" data-source="post: 505820" data-attributes="member: 4085"><p>Gday Insane,</p><p></p><p>Don't you wish the Americans WOULD speak English?</p><p></p><p>We're a very multi-national lot Downunder these days. A local radio station regularly runs a phone in to see how many countries they can tick off from their listeners. Of the 200+ acknowledged nations of the world they usually can list 80 or 90 in the two and half hours the show runs. There will be many who don't ring in.</p><p></p><p>I have to be able to cope with (and understand) about a dozen different dialects of English (Don't let anyone tell you they speak English in England - there's so many local dialects that some are all but incomprehensible to the others) as I work with my Irish staff, dela with the Canadian ex-pat and then have the Americans walk in. After that it gets complicated as the Russian born colleague who works with her Spanish born supervisor comes in. Other colleagues are Estonian, Italian, Indian, Sri Lankan, Chinese, Chinese-Australian and Iranian. There's eleven of us and only three are second generation (or more) Australian born. I think I'm the 'most' Australian at four generations since my family came here.</p><p></p><p>TeDo, if you get the opportunities grab them and really get to know foreign born people. You will be much richer for it.</p><p></p><p>If we tried to say "Go back where you came from" the place would empty out and I think we would be the poorer for it. I could take a negative view and complain of being the 'token' Aussie but I don't. I love working with this lot - it gives me a very broad insight into the world.</p><p></p><p>Marg's Man</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marg's Man, post: 505820, member: 4085"] Gday Insane, Don't you wish the Americans WOULD speak English? We're a very multi-national lot Downunder these days. A local radio station regularly runs a phone in to see how many countries they can tick off from their listeners. Of the 200+ acknowledged nations of the world they usually can list 80 or 90 in the two and half hours the show runs. There will be many who don't ring in. I have to be able to cope with (and understand) about a dozen different dialects of English (Don't let anyone tell you they speak English in England - there's so many local dialects that some are all but incomprehensible to the others) as I work with my Irish staff, dela with the Canadian ex-pat and then have the Americans walk in. After that it gets complicated as the Russian born colleague who works with her Spanish born supervisor comes in. Other colleagues are Estonian, Italian, Indian, Sri Lankan, Chinese, Chinese-Australian and Iranian. There's eleven of us and only three are second generation (or more) Australian born. I think I'm the 'most' Australian at four generations since my family came here. TeDo, if you get the opportunities grab them and really get to know foreign born people. You will be much richer for it. If we tried to say "Go back where you came from" the place would empty out and I think we would be the poorer for it. I could take a negative view and complain of being the 'token' Aussie but I don't. I love working with this lot - it gives me a very broad insight into the world. Marg's Man [/QUOTE]
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