Language, Culture and Disappointment
You know, I've always had mixed feeling about preserving culture.
Like, I'd like the world to speak only one language, to be easier to communicate around the world, but at the same time I think each country should have it's unique style.
In France there's been some controversy with the ban on Islamic Veils. For one I think it's one of the stupidest thing humans can do, banning choices of clothes. But I can respect the idea of keeping the population from adopting a norm that I naturally find stupid. I think if you go to another country to live there, the least you could do is to adapt to their culture. Which is my next point.
I've been to Miami and Orlando last week. The differences are incredible. Miami has been taken by latin people. 90% of the people I met spoke horrible english and were more fluent in spanish. While I have nothing against they migrating there, I think it's a disrespect that they don't even try to learn the language of the country they live in. I entered a KFC and everyone was speaking spanish, even the cashier spoke in spanish.
Orlando on the other hand, while being packed with tourists visiting Disney as I was, almost everyone spoke perfect english. I saw far less brazillians in there then in Miami, considering how the city is build around tourists, the proportion of foreigners to americans was impressively low.

It's weird how these things are... each country has an impressive and different culture, and I think everyone should be able to experience any culture they want. But living in a country should mean respecting their culture. And culture should never get in the way of communication, understandings and a more connected and evolved world.