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Everyone wants central planning until the appointed central planners do something that disadvantages them specifically. Then they suddenly remember they want na
by jack_tripper 10mo ago
Everyone wants central planning until the appointed central planners do something that disadvantages them specifically. Then they suddenly remember they want national sovereignty to protect their interests from the central planners.
That's how you have massive pro an anti EU splits in the same country. Because central planning tends to produce massive economic gaps between the winners and losers of the planning policies.
- derelicta 10mo agoThat's a problem a much bigger country like China doesn't really face surprisingly, despite having central planners, and despite having plenty of different nationalities! Maybe Euros could learn a bit from them and democratic centralism too
- nephihaha 10mo agoChina is only interested in its minorities as a means to promote tourism. Horrible example. Children are put into boarding schools in many places where they are forced to use Mandarin. It is currently bussing in lots of Mandarin speakers into Hong Kong to undermine Cantonese. It has done a good job of undermining Tibetan as well.
- vee-kay 10mo agoChina (whose Maoists control the Nepal government) has mandated Mandarin Chinese to be taught in Nepal's schools as well. https://thehimalayantimes.com/nepal/mandarin-made-mandatory-in-many-schools/ https://thehimalayantimes.com/nepal/mandarin-made-mandatory-... https://www.regentschool.edu.np/chinese-language-classes/ https://www.regentschool.edu.np/chinese-language-classes/ China will destroy or subsume all native culture in every nation/land it gains control of. China is following the Colonial model of divide, conquer/conquest and containment, except this is all happening in the modern era.
- saubeidl 10mo agoWhat's bad about Mandarin being mandatory in schools? English is mandatory in most European schools, is that colonialism as well or just pragmatism?
- computerthings 10mo ago[dead]
- nephihaha 10mo agoWhat's bad? They're being punished if they speak their native language and are taken away from their home communities. No better than the stupid boarding schools minorities were sent to in the west.
- saubeidl 10mo agoWhere does it say anything about being punished for speaking their native language?
- nephihaha 10mo agoI'm not talking about your link. The whole point of those schools is to take them away from their own communities and culture and assimilate them. It's a form of colonialism and the PRC is an empire.
- saubeidl 10mo ago> I'm not talking about your link. What are you talking about then? These are quite serious claims to make, it would make sense to substantiate them.
- vee-kay 10mo agoJust Google for "China arrests and exiles Tibetan monks" and "Chinese Maoists Nepali monarchy massacre", and you'll get the answers you don't known here.
- derelicta 10mo agoIn both cases, they still learn their respective language in parallel to Mandarin, which is the national language. So I don't understand how this is evil or smth.
- nephihaha 10mo agoBoarding school alone is evil let alone one where a dominant culture is allowed to destroy a minority.