What bugs me is when people come from other countries and insist that they live under the rules of their country / religion regardless of what ours says, but don't let us try that in their country.
All sarcasm aside, I am talking not about people who go abroad at a later age.
People who emigrate (willingly I might add) do usually have a language problem ...
Not that oh say a dutch man (or atleast not me) would think to emigrate to France without speeking French... Or to the US without talking English...
For some reason there are these people that go work/live abroad without speaking the language of where they are going... Even English people I see sometimes starting a new (on TV) in Spain or France running into trouble for not speaking the local language, HOW STRANGE is it that you run into trouble if you do not speak the local language???
However this language when you go abroad at say age 25-30 is and always will be your second language.
The "next" generation born in that very country though shouldnt have such a big problem as they will enjoy their education in this "new land". They however have heavely influenced by their parents and thus might still have (some) understandable hinderence from this.
HOWEVER I am talking about the 4th or even 5th generation of "foreigners" that STILL regard their "home land" as beeing their "home" dispite living here since birth...
Dispite their grandparents having lived here since birth...
They still regard themselves Chinese, Turkish, Indian, Marrocan
If I were to go to say Spain, sure I will always be Dutch... My Children should problably feel part dutch as they have been raised partially in holland and are "near enough" to be dutch... But at some point spanish is going to have to be "the rule" right?? You are just putting your children in the back seat if you insist they talk dutch at home... While they have to learn and earn a living in Spanish? I just dont get this...