Douyin even banned speakers of Cantonese [0][1], a language spoken by 80M+ speakers and a top-20 language in the world [2]. Cantonese was widely spoken in Guan

Douyin even banned speakers of Cantonese [0][1], a language spoken by 80M+ speakers and a top-20 language in the world [2]. Cantonese was widely spoken in Guangdong until the CCP actively wiped it out [3]. Among the 204 members of the CCP Central Committee, only 2 are from Guangdong [4]. Guangdong generated the highest GDP among all 31 administrative divisions [5], and doesn’t get its fair share of high ranking officials. It’s not Han supremacy. It’s Mandarin-Han supremacy. [0] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200402/03110144220/tiktok-users-china-temporarily-banned-speaking-their-own-cantonese-language-instead-using-official-mandarin.shtml https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200402/03110144220/tikto... [1] https://www.scmp.com/abacus/culture/article/3078365/chinas-version-tiktok-suspends-users-speaking-cantonese https://www.scmp.com/abacus/culture/article/3078365/chinas-v... (paywalled) [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_num... [3] https://www.businessinsider.com/china-is-forcing-its-biggest-cantonese-speaking-region-to-speak-mandarin-2014-8 https://www.businessinsider.com/china-is-forcing-its-biggest... [4] https://www.sohu.com/a/429814378_469134 https://www.sohu.com/a/429814378_469134 (in Chinese) [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_administrative_divisions_by_GDP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_administrative...