[Rompect]

Remember that this guy already has had British citizenship, but he decided to immigrate to Germany despite the language barrier and not being a citizen.

[LatteLazy]

>He chose Germany because he expected it to have a better economic future and a leading role in the telecom and IT sectors in the long term.

Seems logical to me. The UK is at the start of a lost generation.

[dang]

Please don't take HN threads into nationalistic flamewar. It's a road to hell, and a particularly avoidable one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[quonn]

So Germans speaking their own language in their own country is now xenophobic? (referring to your first paragraph)

It‘s true that with the exception of big companies or certain industries much German is spoken at work. Exactly like Spanish in Spain, French in France, Italian in Italy or Portuguese in Portugal.

I‘m German myself, mostly living outside Germany. I try to fit in as good as possible, including making an effort to learn the local language. It would never cross my mind to think of a country as xenophobic because they speak their own language.

[oaiey]

I would separate the topic of language and xenophobia. The language is hard and acceptance to speak English - while generally there - is not universal. However, the bubble of non English speakers, the bubble of xenophobic people and bubble of racists in Germany have not the biggest overlaps.

Native languages in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Japanese or China have a very long history and the countries are very confident of themselves. A German thinks: you are here so you should speak German. Maybe I am nice and talk English to you, but I expect you to learn German if you are here. The French are even stricter on that.