Glenski
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- 20 Aug 2003
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Originally Posted by Glenski View Post
Rubbish! How many of your fellow countrymen and women have voted back home for idiots, and that was in their own language!?
Dave,
You have it the other way around. Foreign people are not given the right to vote because locals are stupid. (That's what you wrote, but perhaps you meant something else...?)
I can't see how you missed my point. You kept harping on the fact that Japanese fluency was so important, that it was required in your mind before people could make an informed decision when voting. I pointed out that even if a person was fluent in their a language (home language in this case, for Americans), they can STILL be uninformed dolts. Bear in mind that many foreigners would actually pay closer attention to the issues by sheer virtue of being foreign, so in some cases they might even be MORE informed than a local. Not always, of course, but the point is there that language fluency is not a guarantee of intelligent voting.
People,
When we reach the point that one party says, "I don't see it. I don't believe it." over and over again, it's time to call it quits. We might just as well be comparing evolution and creationism here.
Rubbish! How many of your fellow countrymen and women have voted back home for idiots, and that was in their own language!?
Missed this one.
Now Glenski, do you really think that because some halfwitts in their own country voting completely uninformed is grounds to let a foriegner after registering at city the right to vote, Just b/c the outcome may be the same?
Dave,
You have it the other way around. Foreign people are not given the right to vote because locals are stupid. (That's what you wrote, but perhaps you meant something else...?)
I can't see how you missed my point. You kept harping on the fact that Japanese fluency was so important, that it was required in your mind before people could make an informed decision when voting. I pointed out that even if a person was fluent in their a language (home language in this case, for Americans), they can STILL be uninformed dolts. Bear in mind that many foreigners would actually pay closer attention to the issues by sheer virtue of being foreign, so in some cases they might even be MORE informed than a local. Not always, of course, but the point is there that language fluency is not a guarantee of intelligent voting.
I don't see how you fail to do that. Incredulous.And the case about Mr Idubor and his refusal of bail by the courts, this also happens to Japanese, like I have said earlier I am failing to see foriegners rights abused by the law.
People,
When we reach the point that one party says, "I don't see it. I don't believe it." over and over again, it's time to call it quits. We might just as well be comparing evolution and creationism here.
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