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Everyone being able to speak a common language is good actually.
Which is a false equivalency to a state forcing a minority group to learn the majority language.
I don't know where it isn't true. I know it isn't right - anywhere.
You're putting so much energy into justifying China's repression of Uyghurs. You must really hate them.
You're making up so many scenarios in your head. Somehow you think I support the bad shit being done by a country not involved in this discussion and want me to speak in spanish to prove something. Get help... if that's allowed where you live.
Forcing? Do you think parents should be allowed to remove the kid from those classes? Just send them out in the world unable to communicate with anyone outside their hometown?
Ask the indigenous people how much they liked learning to speak the common tongue
Yes, teaching english is what's wrong with what was/is being done to indigenous communities. Absolutely nothing else.
Yeah ....notice I said "learning", not "being taught". Maybe the rest of it that I left implied is what happens when you force people to learn your language? Didn't think I'd have to spell out what the schools did to those poor children to make them learn English for you to understand an implied point, but here we are.
How do you think they're going to make these people learn Mandarin? Do you think they're going to ask nicely? Or are they going to do the same thing every dominant colonial culture tries to do to its minorites?
That is precisely why I referred to it that way, so you'd have to spell it out the dumb implication you're making.
Same way they teach math and science lmao.
It would be nice if we could speak a common language, yes. Then you'd be able to use it to read the article that was linked instead of a single paragraph excerpt and realize the new law is not just about the language.
It would be nice if you could read Mandarin. Then you’d be able to realize that the BBC is deliberately mistranslating whats in the law. How arrogant do you have to be to criticize someone for not reading an article when you can’t even read the document the article claims to describe?