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Post by Doug 周 on Feb 2, 2014 23:11:03 GMT -5
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Post by douglaslam on Feb 4, 2014 7:30:02 GMT -5
DJ, this is so sad and true. In the name of progress or more likely greed, China has lost more of its past treasures than through the Cultural Revolution. I can see it happening with my own eyes. It is corruption, one party state, non accountability that combined to make wholesale destruction of tangible and non-tangible assets an "art form."
China is too eager to project itself on the world stage. It stopped at nothing to build a Grand Prix circuit to host Formula 1 race meetings. I wonder how many villages, how much arable farmland, and how many villagers were removed just for this one big white elephant. Golf courses are the other monstrosities created to please the elite, and select few. China survived for so many thousands of years without them, why the rush to build them now? Why not have them in the Gobi Desert?
Another battle front is the forced assimilation to Mandarin and Mandarin only in school and offices. I found many village kids now talking to each other in Putonghua only. They are neglecting their own dialect, allowing it to decay as it were. China's diversity will suffer for it. I have nothing against an universal tongue, but not to the extent that the mother tongue be banned. Just take a look at the Australian, American and Canadian experience trying to preserve the indigenous dialects after years of suppression. China learned nothing, it is full speed ahead to steamroll them into oblivion.
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