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Towards a More United China: CCP Rationale for Mandarin's Supremacy

• AnimalMuppet 9y ago
  I think China is wise here. If the US had shared a common language with Great Britain, they never would have separated. What's that? Oh. Never mind, carry on...
  • meri_dian 9y ago
    It's not an either or situation though. No one is saying that sharing a common language prevents fracturing, only that it helps promote national unity. In a nation as large and diverse as China, linguistic unity can act as a powerful unifying force. Canada and Belgium have struggled in recent years with bilingualism. Prosperity minimizes the tension caused by multilingualism, but in times of economic hardship these tensions can become magnified.
    • AnimalMuppet 9y ago
      True. Monolingualism is neither necessary nor sufficient, but it is not nothing. It is still a unifying force.