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Re:Migrants have net positive impact on New Zealand by n00b101 on Sunday January 29, 2017 @11:43PM (#13518745)
>Your ignorance of Singapore is showing here.

Thanks, but I have spent a great deal of time in Singapore and know perfectly well what language road signs are in.

> You might as well berate immigrants to New Zealand for not learning Maori or NZSL.

You are comparing the importance of Malay and Mandarin in Singapore to sign language ... I think perhaps it is your ignorance of Singapore's ethnic peoples that is showing here.

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Re:Migrants have net positive impact on New Zealand by lacampbell on Sunday January 29, 2017 @11:50PM (#13518772)
Singapore is a city state, and its main language is English. Not learning one of its secondary languages hardly equates to not integrating.
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