If the Voice of Tibet says it, it must be true.🤷
If you ask the op/bot/fed account that posts them they’ll claim they had no idea but they only post the best sources…
Their sources:
I mean it took me three clicks. I clicked the article, find according to the voice of tibet (could be finished here at two clicks), going the Wikipedia page for vot and saw they’re funded by ned.
If you search the person’s name, you’ll find a handful of articles all sources by voice of tibet. It’s just such an obvious fake story. The account of what “happened” is also so obviously a lie.
Meanwhile in every Tibetan grade school: Okay class let’s continue our study of the Tibetan language
It’s honestly kind of impressive how Radio Free Tibet-type sources saturate basic search results even though academically there is obvious consensus that over 90% of Tibetans in Tibet speak Tibetan and most of their primary schooling is also in Tibetan.
I unironically place a lot of blame on U2 for this.
The whole “Live Aid” thing and “free Tibet” were huge propaganda drives in the 90s and early 00s and Bono and other mega-celebs were a huge part of it. The Beatles earlier too.
It’s almost as if “the media” had an agenda.
Not only are all Tibetan people taught their native language, all Chinese people in any Tibetan region are taught it in their university level language courses as part of general education.
Contrast this with the US actively continuing to eradicate indigenous languages.
“Here come the tankies, trying to argue that china is not le Authoritarianian! logic is not their strong suit!”
Anyway, have you ever been so anti-seeseepee that you start hating chinese things in general?
Cantonese is more expressive economic than Mandarin.
In Mandarin, the ‘Shīshì shí shī shǐ’ poem is incomprehensible when read aloud, since only four syllables cover all the words of the poem. The poem is >somewhat more comprehensible when read in other varieties such as Cantonese, in which it has 18 different syllables accounting for tone differences, or >Hokkien, in which it has 15 different syllables.
So Mandarin is the worst branch of the Chinese languages to simp for.
this has nothing to do with HK being mostly cantonese speaking and Taiwan being “mostly” minnan* speaking (actually, still mostly mandarin speaking), it’s just a logical observation about languages with no political implications. more tones and syllables = better. simplified characters are bad because they require fewer strokes to write, and i don’t like that, so people that use simplified are wrong, logically. pandas are the worst asian bear, formosan black bears and tibetan brown bears are much cooler, that’s just an animal fact.
*don’t say “hokkien” if you’re not from southeast asia
Wasn’t the infamous “shi” poem written to oppose switching to Latin alphabet?
Also, is hokkien a pejorative term?
I wouldn’t say it’s a pejorative term, it just sounds weird to use it for talking about the whole language (language spectrum?) when a) the name just means “Fujian (province)” but Fujian has like six different non mutually intelligible languages but the name is only used for one of them and b) this name for the language is pretty much only used in singapore, malaysia and philippines
so it’s weird to talk about Southern Fujianese people or Taiwanese people speaking “Hokkien”, they would say Min-nan/Bannam(?) or Taiyu/Daigi respectively. wikipedia also refers to the language as “southern min” in english which sounds better.
i guess it’s kinda similar to saying “español” instead of “castellano”, but imagine that castilian, galician and catalan were all equally national languages, and only overseas castilian speakers called castilian “spanish”, and overseas castilian speakers made up less than 50% of speakers worldwide
Is the OP a bot? They post endless anti-China articles, but I’m not sure lemmy is big enough to spend anti-China propaganda on.
I hope they are getting paid for it but seems to do it for the love of the game, along with maybe 2 others?
Bonus it’s hilarious whenever they are on a post that’s pro China and instantly say it’s just Chinese propaganda. Like when American Automotive executives talk about how far behind they are to Chinese cars…
Or https://sopuli.xyz/comment/22247028
Source (Sixth Tone) is a Chinese state-funded soft-power outlet. That should not be relevant to this report, which is simply decent journalism.
This is always relevant, one reason being that they intentionally suppress certain information to spread propaganda and propagnada only. It’s the outlet’s sole raison d’être. This so-called “soft power” comes from the same dictatorial political system. It is an inherently bad and unreliable source and has nothing to do with decent journalism.
lmao:
Got outskimmed
Listen the news mega isn’t always fast enough and I sometimes read from a .world account I created before I knew about the bear
