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Except that the German version is not German, but really a butchered Polish one. So no, the sensibilities in Europe aren't that much better. Or at least they weren't until the end of WW2 and the foundation of the EU. And even then, there's still lots of people who really aren't bilingual, or, at most, know some English and their own language but nothing else.

Yeah what he said^

The last name Albrit(sp?) was/is German and now in US you don't find that as often as you find it's better sounding variation Albright. What ever sounds better off the tongue in US(don't know about Australia as I am not from there) people use.

Last edited by oriolekid at 1/24/2011 10:12:02 PM

I guess for the USA it is a regional thing because where I used to live there were many bilingual people. Overall the 2005 census found 9% to be bilingual, a number which I guess has gone up slightly in the 5+ years since.

Yes, I agree with you. I was just saying that I think that somewhere like San Francisco which has a large number of both immigrants and 2nd/3rd generation Asian-, Hispanic-, and Russian- Americans who speak their parents' native language is probably more bilingual than somewhere like Denver or Milwaukee. And that Arizona is more bilingual than Kansas.

The Australian name database is hilarious. Yes I do realise that all the names are real and Australia is maybe the most multi-cultural nation in the world. It is just funny when you look at an Australian basketball team in Buzzerbeater they will have 1 each of Mongolian, Icelandic, Nigerian, Liberian, Pakistani, Guatemalian etc names all of in total which probably make up less than 1% of the population and 0.00001% of the basketballers. Whereas the half of the population that comes from a British background probably has one name on the roster. Most Aussie basketballers tend to have if not British then Eastern European names - Andrew Bogut is the most recent example.

As for the 2.5% of the population that come from an indigenous background I have only ever once seen one player that seemed like an Aboriginal or Torries Straight Islander which is funny considering 2 out of the 4 Australian players recently playing in the NBA are (Patty Mills and Nathan Jawai).

And I agree with a previous person that noted how funny it is to see African or Asian teams full of players with blonde hair and blue eyes.

Australia uses 55% from the Australian/NZ list and 14% from the English list, so these databases account for nearly 70% of the Australian players.

I don't think it upsets or bothers anyone. It is just funny that 50% of Aussie players have names I have never, ever heard before and you almost never see a Jones, Brown or Smith.

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100% true blue Aussie bogan name.