Thread 213008806

English keeps winning

a win for the english
is a loss for humanity

a female colleague of mine did her bachelor's in the Netherlands and never picked up any Dutch, not even pointless banalities like hello or thank you, she would always speak to them in English and they would oblige. of course she also wrote her thesis in English.
unpopular opinion but the Anglos and their language are a major cause of what's going on in Western countries right now since it createst the expectation that you can get by in every country with English. that's why whenever I travel somewhere I try to pick up a little bit of the language, speaking English to elderly people just seems rude

Global warming will make everyone have to move to Scandinavia after Trump nukes Canada, and then we'll win.

>>213009031
Your grandchildren won't be able to say that in Swedish though

>>213008934
consider that the alternative was Dutch, here

>>213009009
>a female colleague of mine did her bachelor's in the Netherlands and never picked up any Dutch, not even pointless banalities like hello or thank you, she would always speak to them in English and they would oblige. of course she also wrote her thesis in English
Many such cases

>>213009009
Sounds like a great way to always feel like an outsider.

>>213009009
>unpopular opinion
wouldn't say so, but admirable of you either way
normies are vapid materialist cunts with little to no selfawareness and with no appreciation of culture in general, they only realize it'd be nice to have some identity when a random foreigner they want to impress asks them about it and they have nothing to say

>>213009202
There are many other expats thobeit

>>213009669
That just makes it a group of outsiders.

>>213009202
Dutch society is probably garbage though

The measure in the OP is about our universities offering a lot of very popular studies in English with the sole intention of amassing as many international students as possible.
Think of stuff like English only psychology studies in Amsterdam which is apparently the most popular studies in the entire country.

For year and years we did everything to bring in all the international students in Europe and now as a result Dutch students are ever more living at home while Felix-Kai and Olivia are living in 10m2 student housing for €1100.

>>213010296
>Think of stuff like English only psychology studies in Amsterdam which is apparently the most popular studies in the entire country.
That's true because of German women

>>213009009
We have an extremely unfair tax cut for expats (not sure if EU migrants apply for this) and way more professional jobs than educated people.
All of our cities host large amount of western migrants who don't speak a single word of Dutch and are just here for a few years with no real intention of staying.
You will find there's a very harsh separation between Dutch people and "internationals" as they are called. Lots of shared housing has a no-internationals policy while they always live in houses with only other foreigners.

If you want to know their stories just go to /r/Netherlands, it's the subreddit for these people.

>>213010372
Dutch women too, for example psychology at the University of Amsterdam is the absolute #1 most prestigious studies among zoomerettes.
I'm sure in Germany it's like psychology at the most left wing university of Berlin

Are there even STEM textbooks written in Dutch? I mean anything above 1st years stuffs. I can’t imagine studying your degree in your non native language. Must be a bizarre and difficult experience.

>>213008806 (OP)
The supply of language is too high. We need a little bit of consolidation.

If your language is spoke by less than 100M people, its time to accept reality.

>>213010550
I studied history in Groningen.
About half of the standard material in the 1st year was in English. The literature and sources I used to write my essays and thesis (I focused on
ancient and medieval Euro history) were almost all in English.

>>213011778
Also I wrote most of my essays in English, my thesis too.

>>213011778
That's simply pathetic

well it makes sense since you want academic papers to reach as many people as possible

it's okay back in the day if you did math or physics you had to write it in german if you wanted exposure, it's payback

just a drive to get good at something, you wouldn't get it

If you don’t want this shit then just ban international students and have all classes in Dutch. Commission people to write and translate all course material into Dutch.

The problem, as always, is this retarded have your cake and eat it too attitude from (((businesses)))

>>213010454
>way more professional jobs than educated people
Is that really the case? It's the opposite here. Are the taxes high enough to drive people away despite the high quality of life? I thought lots more people would like to live there after NJB romanticized the place so much. Reminds me how a friend of mine worked there at a biotech startup in Amsterdam without a visa and never got paid, maybe that has something to do with it.

Are europeans happy being such cucks for americans? I mean one would've thought the whole lgbt/caatration grooming would cross the line but at some point it looks like some collective humilliation fetish

>>213013339
Are Argentinans really dumb enough to tell others what they should do when they have continuously voted in communists for eighty years?

>>213013297
Companies big and small cry they can never find enough people
Unemployement is really low here

>>213014928
Huh? Is there a need for keyboard monkeys? Can I come then? What is the downside I'm unaware of?

>>213014978
>What is the downside I'm unaware of?
Expensive housing, however seeing youre from Canada it might just be cheaper than what youre used to kek

>>213011778
Why are there no Dutch sources?

>>213009202
>Sounds like a great way to always feel like an outsider.
Foreigners don't care about being foreigners if there are enough foreigners present.

Why do languages other than English even exist anymore? Metric chuds stutter when confronted with this uncomfortable truth. Dutch has as much reason to exist as Fahrenheit does.

>>213008934
William the conqueror did nothing wrong

luv me english
simple as

>>213008806 (OP)
Is dutch the most linguistically cucked country in the entirety of Europe? At that point they're honorary anglos

>>213009009
>that's why whenever I travel somewhere I try to pick up a little bit of the language, speaking English to elderly people just seems rude
same here but i mainly do it for my own enjoyment and just saying some botchered phrases can really get you extra service also its not english speakers fault that their language has become the default slop language i know you didnt say that but i just wanted to mention it

>>213008806 (OP)
ik ook
dutch dood
wat nou?

>>213020072
>At that point they're honorary anglos
Didn't "saxons" come from there originally?

how else Muhammad and Mohammed are going to get their degrees?

>>213010296
>our universities offering a lot of very popular studies in English with the sole intention of amassing as many international students as possible.
what is the benefit to the Dutch state here?
those students surely will stay in Netherlands, learn culture, assimilate within couple of years and be a valuable member of society, right? that's what they are thinking isn't it?

>>213020072
>At that point they're honorary anglos
What does this mean?

>>213013339
it's not just Americans, it's Brits and Europe having 50 different languages and needing in intermediary

>>213009009
Dutch is an accent of English just with German words mixed in like other English has French words mixed in
>but English already has German words
And I'm sure Dutch has French words but they just have more German words.
Knowing a few phrases and a bit of sentence construction in German and knowing English makes me know half of Dutch.

>>213020831
except for "assimilate" and "learn culture" I think that's the plan
if expats set up a parallel society around the universities you can still farm tax revenue off them
I don't like the idea though, if you move somewhere you should make an effort to learn the local language and try to become a part of the society there, even if it's hard. I'll continue in English if someone speaks to me that way but I always ask in (bad, but improving) Japanese first and such.

>>213020274
They were next door, in Saxony. And the Angles were just north of them.