"Tony Blair: migrants should be forced to integrate more to combat far right"

[SydneyRover]

"Migrant communities must be compelled to do more to integrate to help combat the rise of “far-right bigotry”, Tony Blair has warned"

Yes, we want migrants to be more like Tony Blair?

So Blair wants migrants to modify their behaviour to soothe the feelings of the the far right?

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/apr/20/tony-blair-says-migrants-must-integrate-to-combat-far-right

[DonnyOsmond]

They had a bit on Radio 4 this morning about this. They cut the funding to English classes for adults due to austerity that obviously doesn't help and I tend to agree with Blair, if I was living in France I should learn French in order to get by, same if someone came here. You're always going to have the ignorance and the extremes of the far right.

[Herbert Anchovy]

You can’t force people to integrate wherever they live! It’s human instinct that people will naturally ‘group’ with those they share most similarities with. You can walk around parts of East London (as I did a few years ago) and you will not see anyone English. Similarly, there are parts of Spain that have been taken over by ex pat communities where the only Spaniard is the guy who comes to empty the bins.

[SydneyRover]

You can’t force people to integrate wherever they live! It’s human instinct that people will naturally ‘group’ with those they share most similarities with. You can walk around parts of East London (as I did a few years ago) and you will not see anyone English. Similarly, there are parts of Spain that have been taken over by ex pat communities where the only Spaniard is the guy who comes to empty the bins.

Yep, and it's what makes the UK what it is, a melting pot of different nationalities living working and playing together

[Dutch Uncle]

As a person who took a job in (then West) Germany and took a lot of time and trouble to learn German, and then a job in the Netherlands and did the same with Dutch I cannot emphasise enough just how important it was on so many levels to learn the languages. Quite apart from anything else the locals then completely accepted me.

Apart from my first couple of years in the Netherlands (ca 1980) when I spoke Dutch with a strong German accent - that was not quite so popular at that time