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Canada's Border Service Agency says it will improve translation services at a Vancouver airport where a Polish immigrant was unable to communicate with officials and died after being Tasered by the RCMP.
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I'm of the opinion that people need to be at least basically familiar with a culture when they enter into it. It ensures the safety of both the foreign individual and the cultural environment itself.
In a world where English is becoming the global language, we should not go out of our way to become more adopted to foreign languages.
This was an unfortunate event, but to blame the death of Mr. Dziekanski on a language barrier is not right. The situation wasn't the problem, it was the way it was dealt with.
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