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A country offering chinese as an elective to its students is an invasion?
by porpoisely 8y ago
A country offering chinese as an elective to its students is an invasion?
- yakshaving_jgt 8y agoI'm not saying this is the case, but if I wanted my country to take over another country, I would do it slowly and as peacefully as possible. Countries and cultures have been doing this all throughout history, and still do this today.
- porpoisely 8y agoI guess that's possible. But history has shown that countries take over another through force. Not slowly and certainly not peacefully. Which country has taken over another "slowly and peacefully"? It's hyperbole at best to claim that kenya offering chinese as "an elective" ( not mandatory ) to its student is an "invasion". My high school offered spanish, french and japanese as language electives. Last I checked, we weren't invaded and conquered by spain, france or japan.
- reaperducer 8y agoI'm not saying this is the case, but if I wanted my country to take over another country, I would do it slowly and as peacefully as possible. I've read that children in Hong Kong now have to learn Mandarin in school instead of Cantonese. So using language as influence isn't foreign to the Chinese state.