For years, Chinese leader Xi Jinping has pushed ethnic minority groups like Tibetans and Uyghurs to adopt an identity rooted in Chinese nationality and allegiance to the ruling Communist Party.
Can you live in your country (have a job, pay taxes, buy a house, raise kids) without using the official language of the state? In mine is not possible.
These communities existed before today, and seemed to be doing fine.
The fact people can learn and use a language, without being raised to consider it their primary language, is what you think you’re arguing. It would be nice if you meant anything by it besides “nuh uh.”
Are you guys okay? You just say shit to air your mouth?
Can you integrate into Germany without ever speaking German? Can you integrate in France without ever speaking French? Can you integrate in the US without ever speaking English?
At one point you will have to learn the official language of the state you live in, you can keep yours but for material and technical purposes (think about the fkn taxes comon man!) you NEED to know at least the OFFICIAL language of the country.
How the fuck is this controversial?
This is basic shit good lord.
There are older Germans who have been living here for generations and don’t speak standard German. Germans learn it in school now, but not every school insisted on Hochdeutsch in the post-war period, especially in more rural areas.
Generally they all understand standard German, but not all of them can produce it. Their children can often understand and produce both their dialect and standard German, but their grandchildren have mostly lost the ability to produce the dialect.
It’s really sad to lose the diversity of dialects, and it’s a direct result of enforcing a standardized German dialect in schools and government institutions.
China is geographically massive in comparison to Germany and has that much more to lose.
Thank you for a normal answer that has a point. And I would generally agree but it’s also true that you need to know at least (meaning “not only”) one language that is spoken with the rest of the country you live in if you want to improve your material life (better jobs, better places, ability to move).
Pretending that imposing one primary common language for an incredibly vast territory while celebrating (this is what the law says) the differences among regions/people equals ethnic cleansing, is disingenuous and ridiculous at best.
Because by the same logic, all the European countries that have an official primary language should be doing ethnic cleansing.
Do you feel these people that speak a different German dialect are being genocided by the German government?
These are unserious takes from unserious people who are just here to pump this shitty cnn article with a bunch of alts for the BurgerReich.
You are changing your question. First it was if you can live there without speaking the language. And that’s easy. And we’re talking about minorities in China, in some areas you’d be surrounded by a community who speak the same language as you so integration into that area isn’t a problem at all.
I mean right wingers push for mandatory language classes (and talk about ethnic unity). This is getting eery. And this is going further in that that it is forcing it as the primary language…
Within and among are different words in English with different meanings but ok.
I’m guessing it’s a translation issue since the law mandates using Mandarin etc
Yes, as a main language not as only language. Again here English language did a trick ehehe sneaky little education…
You’re saying it’s fine because they’re forcing it as just the main language and not the only one…?
Can you live in your country (have a job, pay taxes, buy a house, raise kids) without using the official language of the state? In mine is not possible.
In mine it very much is, and it’s extremely common.
These communities existed before today, and seemed to be doing fine.
The fact people can learn and use a language, without being raised to consider it their primary language, is what you think you’re arguing. It would be nice if you meant anything by it besides “nuh uh.”
Definitely yeah. Are you saying you shouldn’t be able to do that or wdym
Are you guys okay? You just say shit to air your mouth?
Can you integrate into Germany without ever speaking German? Can you integrate in France without ever speaking French? Can you integrate in the US without ever speaking English?
At one point you will have to learn the official language of the state you live in, you can keep yours but for material and technical purposes (think about the fkn taxes comon man!) you NEED to know at least the OFFICIAL language of the country.
How the fuck is this controversial? This is basic shit good lord.
There are older Germans who have been living here for generations and don’t speak standard German. Germans learn it in school now, but not every school insisted on Hochdeutsch in the post-war period, especially in more rural areas.
Generally they all understand standard German, but not all of them can produce it. Their children can often understand and produce both their dialect and standard German, but their grandchildren have mostly lost the ability to produce the dialect.
It’s really sad to lose the diversity of dialects, and it’s a direct result of enforcing a standardized German dialect in schools and government institutions.
China is geographically massive in comparison to Germany and has that much more to lose.
Thank you for a normal answer that has a point. And I would generally agree but it’s also true that you need to know at least (meaning “not only”) one language that is spoken with the rest of the country you live in if you want to improve your material life (better jobs, better places, ability to move).
Pretending that imposing one primary common language for an incredibly vast territory while celebrating (this is what the law says) the differences among regions/people equals ethnic cleansing, is disingenuous and ridiculous at best.
Because by the same logic, all the European countries that have an official primary language should be doing ethnic cleansing.
Do you feel these people that speak a different German dialect are being genocided by the German government?
These are unserious takes from unserious people who are just here to pump this shitty cnn article with a bunch of alts for the BurgerReich.
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You are changing your question. First it was if you can live there without speaking the language. And that’s easy. And we’re talking about minorities in China, in some areas you’d be surrounded by a community who speak the same language as you so integration into that area isn’t a problem at all.
I mean right wingers push for mandatory language classes (and talk about ethnic unity). This is getting eery. And this is going further in that that it is forcing it as the primary language…
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