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Australia Makes Asian Language Learning a Priority
An anonymous reader writes "The Australian government came a step closer to formalising its plans to make Asian language study compulsory for schools this week. It has released a draft curriculum for public consultation which reveals plans to include Indonesian, Korean and french language in the curriculum. Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard publicly stated in September 2012 that in response to the "staggering growth" in the region, the government would be instigating 25 key measures to strengthen and exploit links with Asia. The plan includes the requirement that one third of civil servants and company directors have a "deep knowledge," thousands of scholarships for Asian students, and the opportunity for every schoolchild to learn one of four "priority" languages- Chinese, Hindi, Japanese or Indonesian."
All the libertoons I know think Australia is a police state. And spending any length of time in the UK or the US will convince you of that.
Libertoons are a whiny, irrational lot anyway. Moving from the US to Australia to escape "teh gubmint" is like jumping out of the frypan and into the fire. Something your typical rightwing libertoon fuckknuckle would be too stupid not to do.
Fuck you, you arrogant egomaniacal asshole!
You're the type who goes to the deepest African jungle, finds a village of 150 people, and *seriously* expects *them* to all speak *your* language every time you are in the general area!
Meanwhile you feel so "superior" that you think you don't have to learn any other languages *at all*.
Listen to me closely: The ONLY reason English looks "dominating" in the places you soiled with your presence, is because unlike you, we're *not* such arrogant egocentric fucks and were forthcoming to the ignorant stranger who's too fuckin' *stupid* to learn a language, let alone understand any of the culture. Instead you bring McDonalds and Copyright with you, piss all over our culture, and think you're entitled to getting Hitler-saluted for your overblown grandeur.
Meanwhile Spanish beats English in number of speakers and Mandarin kicks both their *asses*!
And Hindi, Arabic, Portuguese, Bengali, Russian and Japanese are just as valid world languages.
English... world language... my ASS!
YOU are what makes people from your country look bad. Stop it!