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What's so wrong with having to learn Arabic?
What's so wrong about respecting the practices of our neighbors?
What's so important and rigid about our culture?
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Absolutely nothing, but it is a point of principle. It seems to me that these neighbours don't give a damn about our own customs and what have you, and I feel that if our culture is shit and meaningless, so is their culture. At the end of the day, the people who are arguing against the catering of these foreigners are just trying to protect their way of life. They feel threatened by the fact that these people are coming over here and are reproducing, thus increasing the amount of people who live slightly differently to themselves. In reality, neither culture is going to be greater than the other. There will merely be an alternative, but I can understand that people feel their culture strongly influences the way that they live, and so wish to protect what they are familiar with.