[RyLucky]

Originally Posted by Acajack

A retail place of business is actually somewhere in between the public and private spheres. I can choose to invite only black people or no black people to my house, but I can't do that with my bar or my restaurant. I don't need an accessible ramp at my house but will likely need one for my business.

It's just your opinion that such requirements that might be related to language are unacceptable. It's not a hard and fast rule written down anywhere.

What about the hundreds of thousands of kids born in Richmond who don't speak English as a first language? Should Richmond be English for ever and ever and ever no matter what? What about the 1000000+ Aboriginal people in Canada? Perhaps we should all speak indigenous languages.

Originally Posted by kool maudit

to be ideologically pure (but un-pragmatically honest) about things, the proper rejoinder would be "you are. and there is no problem with that."

feeling excluded on the basis of language (and/or culture, by extension) represents an attachment to non-essential things that is ultimately related to the sort of ethno-cultural "centrism" that creates pre-modern orders, with all of their unpleasant particularities and outgrowths.

essentially, people are moving to richmond from other countries because they are seeking opportunity (an essential thing) and because it is good for the economy (an essential thing).

it is good for the economy because most western countries have low birth rates, which are themselves the outgrowth of individual-centric sexual and reproductive practices (an essential thing).

ideally, the proper reaction would be to recognize your exclusion as an inevitable outgrowth of essential things and adapt to it by either learning the language in question or migrating to another area.

this process, as a whole, represents the evolution of your culture and region (an essential, or at least unavoidable, thing) and as such must be entered into with goodwill.

i mean, nobody actually lives like this, but that's probably because we're just not up to speed yet.

I like you.