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That's a problem a much bigger country like China doesn't really face surprisingly, despite having central planners, and despite having plenty of different nati
by derelicta 10mo ago
That'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.
- vee-kay 10mo agoIndia, Bhutan and Tibet are closest neighbours to Nepal, so if Hindi, Bhutanese and Tibetan are taught in Nepali schools are optional languages, it makes sense. But China is not a neighbour of any of these nations, unless if you admit that China colonised Tibet and it's doing the same to Nepal too.
- saubeidl 10mo agoEngland isn't a neighbor to any of the European countries that have English as mandatory language in school either. It's just a useful language to learn that'll increase the opportunities of the learner.
- vee-kay 10mo agoEnglish is of Germanic/European origin only. UK is a neighbour of Europe, and was even part of EU for years. Most of USA & Canada are comprised of descendants of UK & European immigrants. USA and Canada are English-majority nations, that were colonised by British and Europeans. So all these nations have the majorly common shared language: English. But Mandarin is not of Tibetan or Nepalese origin. In fact, their origin is Bharat/India. China is NOT a neighbour of Tibet, and Nepal. Their closest neighbour, and the one whom they share most of their culture & traditions with, is India. Tibet and Nepal were subjugated by China, they never welcomed China. China invaded and seized the peaceful Tibet, and systematically dismantled the Tibetan learning centres and cultural centres. Tibetan monks were exiled or executed by China to destroy the Tibetan culture. Chinese Maoists caused the massacre of the Nepalese royal family, and seized the government after a brutal violent civil war. China/CCP is using Mandarin (forcibly taught in Tibetan and Nepalese schools) as a weapon to destabilize and destroy the native cultures, language and traditions of Tibet and Nepal. This is why Hindi is no longer the secondary language taught in Nepal schools, even though it makes better economic sense for Nepalese to learn Hindi, due to lots of Indian tourists and cross-border trade with India. So your arguments don't sway anyone who knows what evils China is doing in these ancient Himalayan lands.
- saubeidl 10mo ago
- 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.