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Living in a country where you have to speak a foreign language can causo serious social problems, as well as practical problems. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?

#country #language #causo
It is clear that living in a foreign
country
 has its own benefits and drawbacks to consider. I agree with
this
 statement,
however
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 I think that anybody coming
in
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from
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 another
country
 should respect
national
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the national
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culture
. In
this
 essay, I would like to outline the social and practical problems. The social problems would be
language
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a language
the language
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 barrier, which means that a
person
 coming from another
country
 might not be able to speak and understand the
language
 which might be a problem as far a
person
 who is living in a
country
, and a
person
 who came in the
country
 Another problem is linked to the
language
 barrier, but it might influence the behaviour of others. An individual who
come
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 into the
country
 might offend others with their behaviour or
language
.
For example
; some
cultures
 like English
people
 prefer to be very polite and say things differently from other
cultures
.
Therefore
 a
person
 who doesn't know how to behave in a particular
culture
 might offend others around him. The practical
problems
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problem
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 would be
misunderstanding
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a misunderstanding
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 of
culture
. That means that a
person
 who visits other countries does not understand other
culture
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cultures
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 and he behaves as he wants to. The
second
 practical problem is finding a job. An individual who works in
foreign
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a foreign
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country
 might not be appropriate for
people
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the people
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who
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whom
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 he serves.
For
example
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 if an individual works in a restaurant, the
people
 who live in a
country
 and
they
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were born in that
country
 might not respect and not like the behaviour of a
person
 who works in a restaurant, it might be because
,
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 the
cultures
 are different. To summarize, it can be said that there are a lot of misconceptions which
people
 have when they come
in
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 a foreign
country
, and in my opinion and from my personal experience
people
 should educate themselves in order to know how to behave in different situations with different
cultures
.
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