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Many things are banned in China, especially web services, in order to create an internal (was possibly exportable incubation, but not since 'progression' over t
by zhte415 7y ago
Many things are banned in China, especially web services, in order to create an internal (was possibly exportable incubation, but not since 'progression' over the past 5 years after the government - hegemony of leaders and follows on, rather than government workers, themselves the mules).
But translate.google.cn is not banned on the mainland and Google services work very finely in Hong Kong.
And forcing Mandarin does people's throats is not all bad, in terms of literacy and considering that 70 years ago most of the country was illiterate, no only in language but also in ideas, such as basic western ideas in medical - which led to a huge reduction in infant mortality - the doctors and the literate going to the countryside.
And the across the sea, river, passing swamp, was Hong Kong, which figured out very much earlier and flourished.
But.. translate.google.cn is not blocked in China.
- floatingatoll 7y agoIt’s not about forcing Mandarin being bad, it’s about prohibiting non-Mandarin being bad. US equivalent to this would be forcing English (which we do) while jailing anyone who teaches Creole (which we don’t).
- yorwba 7y agoNo one is going to get jailed for teaching Cantonese in China. There are plenty of commercial offerings, e.g. this free introductory course I found: https://www.wanmen.org/courses/586d23485f07127674135d64 https://www.wanmen.org/courses/586d23485f07127674135d64 Mandarin being the primary language of education doesn't mean that Cantonese is prohibited; it's just not mandatory, so most native Cantonese speakers aren't going to get a formal education in it unless they specifically seek it out.
- floatingatoll 7y agoThank you for the correction; it’s too late to edit but I would if I could :(
- rwbhn 7y agoFor the US equivalent, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_boarding_schools https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_boarding_sch...
- stereo 7y agoFor the Soviet equivalent, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes