You're right - language use is not related to citizenship.
Refugees deserve human rights. Since Sweden extended humanitarian support for a lot of refugees from the Middle East, that surely makes sense that Arabic languages are common.
My birth town of Miami accepted a lot of refugees from Castro's Cuba. My friends and classmates grew up in Spanish-speaking households, and I remember getting new classmates who didn't speak any English when they started. They learned.
While native Spanish speakers, my classmates generally preferred speaking English. As usual with immigrants, their kids - the second generation - are being raised in primarily English-speaking homes.
Just like how my g'grandparents spoke Norwegian, my grandmother was force to learn it as a kid, and my father learned a few phrases, passing down only one to me.
And if I read your link correctly, seemingly just like how the grandchildren of Finnish immigrants in the 1960s are learning Swedish, not Finnish.
OTOH, their Cuban-born parents often didn't learn much English. They had a family to support, and needed to work.
So Miami ended up a very Spanish speaking town, even though there is an English language requirement for US citizenship.
If you really think, as I do, that it's unrelated, why mention it at all?
Refugees deserve human rights. Since Sweden extended humanitarian support for a lot of refugees from the Middle East, that surely makes sense that Arabic languages are common.
My birth town of Miami accepted a lot of refugees from Castro's Cuba. My friends and classmates grew up in Spanish-speaking households, and I remember getting new classmates who didn't speak any English when they started. They learned.
While native Spanish speakers, my classmates generally preferred speaking English. As usual with immigrants, their kids - the second generation - are being raised in primarily English-speaking homes.
Just like how my g'grandparents spoke Norwegian, my grandmother was force to learn it as a kid, and my father learned a few phrases, passing down only one to me.
And if I read your link correctly, seemingly just like how the grandchildren of Finnish immigrants in the 1960s are learning Swedish, not Finnish.
OTOH, their Cuban-born parents often didn't learn much English. They had a family to support, and needed to work.
So Miami ended up a very Spanish speaking town, even though there is an English language requirement for US citizenship.
If you really think, as I do, that it's unrelated, why mention it at all?