You want to sell me a Sandwhich? Are you Qualified?
Living in Germany is always an eye opening experience. Yesterday while I was at the gym, I watched CNN in English and there was a story about a Kebab Academy. I found an article on the academy here.
This article on CNN upset me. I did not like how flip the American reporter was about this topic. It isn't funny. Really.
It upset me because Germany requires you to have a certification for everything and having a certification in Kebab manufacturing does not help you advance in society. How is this certification going to help with the integration of immigrants?
You are not teaching the Turkish worker German. Making the certification class a German class and a certification class might have been a more interesting combination.
Force them to learn some German. The certification class is taught in German but in the video clip I watched, the whole class was being translated into Turkish.
I presented this issue to a few people yesterday and they told me that it was good to teach the Turks in Turkish and that it didn't matter if they learned German. They have their own society here in Germany. They even have their own banking representatives. They don't need to know German for any reason. I disagree. I believe that they need to learn German. Not for themselves but for their children.
Here in Germany, if you do not speak fluent German, there is very little help for you as a child and you will be segregated into a different school system which makes it almost impossible for you to go to the university. You are stuck going into a trade school which is not much higher than packing the meat on the kebab stick.
I am glad that these workers can strive to someday own a kebab store but why are their goals not higher? In the United States, you will have immigrants who come and want their children to be president (maybe), head of a company (maybe) or working in some profession as a doctor, engineer or lawyer. Shouldn't this Kebab worker have that same goals for his family? Or is it that in Germany, you are encouraged to remain where you are. Remain employed in a low paying job, remain unable to integrate into the society in which you live.
Yes, the Turkish man has his own society. I have my own group of English people that I socialize with but I also have Germans that I like to spend time with and I like interacting with the Germans in Munich.
The Germans laugh at the Turkish German. You can hear a Turkish child immediately by the way he speaks German. This behavior is not only a German issue, Americans also make fun of Hispanics and African American dialects.
How do I know? Because I am Hispanic. I look Hispanic and I speak English. American English.
Why is it that I have two immigrant parents and I speak English without a German or Colombian accent? Is it because I was in the US school system for a full day listening to English? Is it because I grew up in the midwest and there is some magical force working to perfect the English of immigrants?
German is not the international language of business but it is the official language in Germany and German residents should be speaking the language.
This school is a nice bandage but it certainly is not going to help heal the massive wound in Germany's society.
This article on CNN upset me. I did not like how flip the American reporter was about this topic. It isn't funny. Really.
It upset me because Germany requires you to have a certification for everything and having a certification in Kebab manufacturing does not help you advance in society. How is this certification going to help with the integration of immigrants?
You are not teaching the Turkish worker German. Making the certification class a German class and a certification class might have been a more interesting combination.
Force them to learn some German. The certification class is taught in German but in the video clip I watched, the whole class was being translated into Turkish.
I presented this issue to a few people yesterday and they told me that it was good to teach the Turks in Turkish and that it didn't matter if they learned German. They have their own society here in Germany. They even have their own banking representatives. They don't need to know German for any reason. I disagree. I believe that they need to learn German. Not for themselves but for their children.
Here in Germany, if you do not speak fluent German, there is very little help for you as a child and you will be segregated into a different school system which makes it almost impossible for you to go to the university. You are stuck going into a trade school which is not much higher than packing the meat on the kebab stick.
I am glad that these workers can strive to someday own a kebab store but why are their goals not higher? In the United States, you will have immigrants who come and want their children to be president (maybe), head of a company (maybe) or working in some profession as a doctor, engineer or lawyer. Shouldn't this Kebab worker have that same goals for his family? Or is it that in Germany, you are encouraged to remain where you are. Remain employed in a low paying job, remain unable to integrate into the society in which you live.
Yes, the Turkish man has his own society. I have my own group of English people that I socialize with but I also have Germans that I like to spend time with and I like interacting with the Germans in Munich.
The Germans laugh at the Turkish German. You can hear a Turkish child immediately by the way he speaks German. This behavior is not only a German issue, Americans also make fun of Hispanics and African American dialects.
How do I know? Because I am Hispanic. I look Hispanic and I speak English. American English.
Why is it that I have two immigrant parents and I speak English without a German or Colombian accent? Is it because I was in the US school system for a full day listening to English? Is it because I grew up in the midwest and there is some magical force working to perfect the English of immigrants?
German is not the international language of business but it is the official language in Germany and German residents should be speaking the language.
This school is a nice bandage but it certainly is not going to help heal the massive wound in Germany's society.
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