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My name is Maria. I would like to say that foreigners have a positive influence on us. They bring us their culture, language and customs. However, they have to integrate well into our society. They should obey our laws. They must live legally in my country and certainly not tell us what we should do.
Hi, I am Melanie. What do I think of “foreigners” coming to live in my country? Which country are we speaking about? Which country is my country? Is it Belgium? Is it Europe? I think we live in a world which looks like a village, where people know each other, are open to each other, can understand each other. I’m sure the word “foreigner” is not very important now. Who are foreigners? Maybe those who come to the Earth from Mars. In my opinion meeting different cultures can only improve our society.
Luke is speaking. In my opinion foreigners coming to live in my country are not a problem to me. I think I can open my country to new cultures. I think they have decided to emigrate because the life in their own country was too hard for them. Most of them want to find work and have a better life, but some people bring trouble. In my opinion, the big problem is that there is not enough money for all of them, and Belgium cannot offer all of them places where they can work.
That’s Bruce. I think foreign citizens are sometimes discriminated. Some of them have a different religion from ours. Sometimes their customs and their culture are different too. My grandfather who had immigrated from Italy to Belgium many years before told me how difficult it used to be for him here at the beginning.
Hello, I’m Simon. I think that foreigners who come to live in Western Europe are sure that everybody here is rich and that you can make a lot of money in no time. Unfortunately, reality is rather different. Television shows a nearly perfect world in the West and is responsible for the misunderstanding. People come to my country and don’t often find things they had expected. They become dissatisfied and aggressive. This can be dangerous.
My name is Andy. I have mixed feelings about foreigners. On the one hand, my country is very small and there are so many jobless people in it. So I don’t want thousands of foreigners to come and take our jobs. And then housing will be a big problem. But on the other hand, I find it very important to meet other cultures and people who speak different languages because living with people from other countries opens your mind.
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