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Totally agreed with you. Well said! The longer you live in the US, the less trust you have in the Western Media. Always double standards in all China issues!
Its funny that a westerner needs to explain to the world (mainly western) why the chinese gov needs to make its citizens to learn mandarin or chinese... I am malaysian chinese. I speak 5 languages and write 3 and english is the last language that i learnt because its essential in the commercial world in Malaysia.
Yes I’m Malaysian too live in Europe Ppls even asked me do u think Hong Kong belong China. Just like us Malaysian have to learn Malay but others languages as second language
Learning a different language, grants access to different viewpoints. Learning multiple different languages, grants access to multiple different viewpoints.
I didn't know China's currency has major minorities' language printed on it. I just checked and didn't see US dollars with Native American's language or Spanish.
I am Chinese borne oversea, had little knowledge of China, I have learnt tremendously from your Channel, Nathan Rich, Guilo 60, Daniel Dumbriel and more. I was brainwashed for over half of life and very glad to discover the truths.
Western propaganda against China is causing immense damage to the brains of people! However, adults with brains should be able to understand such misdeed with common sense....
ABC here and I grew up hating China due to constant influence from the media. When I finally visited China in my 30’s I too realized how many lies I had been fed and how badly I was brainwashed about China!
Thank you for telling you this topic. I am a Mongolian living in China. I only started to learn Mandarin in the fourth grade of elementary school at the age of twelve. Now it is the government's request to start learning Mandarin in the first grade of elementary school. This has caused some people with ulterior motives to vilify. China, thank you for clarifying this
If you speak other language than English in America, they will ask you to go back to your Country. While in China, no one will bother about what language you speak but it is for your convenient that you learn Mandarin.
The same is true in Australia. If you speak your native language amongst yourselves, some white people will walk up to you and yell at you, telling you to speak English or go back to your country.
Yes, silly countries that care about things such as human rights violations, CCP overlooking massive curruption, se-x sl@very, forced org@n h@rvesting, political prisoners, and massive censorjng.
@@americanpatriot126 Let's try that out, shall we? Just without the alternative spelling. "Yes, silly countries that care about things such as human rights violations, CCP overlooking massive corruption, sex slavery, forced organ harvesting, political prisoners, and massive censoring." There we go.
I am from Malaysia and we learn mandarin and we still keep our native dialect alive. We can speak hakka, hokkien and Cantonese. Even parents from other ethnic group here sending their children to Chinese school or take up mandarin. English and mandarin is a must these days so we can adapt to both side of the world.
Absolutely! I loved traveling through Malaysia and experiencing and seeing so many different languages at play, it's what makes Malaysia such an amazing country!
@KW Lam its because theres more cantonese ppl in the KL area which affects other chinese people there to also speak cantonese. if you go to penang or johor, you will be hearing hokkien everywhere. and hakka people are spread throughout the entire country and the world. im a hakka person from KL but sadly i couldnt speak hakka. but i can speak cantonese tho bc im from KL and my mom speaks it and i can also speak hokkien cuz my dad speaks it. and we all speak mandarin.
The philippines has many local dialects, but its citizens are required to learn speak tagalog, the national language. I never heard an uproar in a foreign newspaper about this.
Correction: local languages. It's more inclusive since in this context I'm assuming you're talking about Cebuano, Ilocano and the like. Unfortunately, yes local languages are under pressure from the national language: Filipino (which is based from Tagalog). Fortunately, the MTB-MLE program is changing that and people like me are actively trying to protect all of the languages here. The Philippines is actually one of the only countries in Eastern Asia (East and Southeast Asia) that has a nationwide minority languages education program.
That's wonderful! Being able to speak multiple languages is a blessing. I've known a friend in Shanghai. And he knows a family. The child, a quadrilingual, attending a Singaporean international school, can speak her mother tongues, portugese from the father (from Brazil) and German from the mother, and of course English & Mandarin as well.
@@alantan9863 : Speak for yourself. A lot of people could speak their own mother tongue... and that is due to the fact that their parents could. So therefore, they could too. This is why so many actually push back on "mandarin". I don't even understand "mandarin"...
If only the chinese were just teaching a new language, and not trying to erase an entire culture in the process. Also, h@rvesting organs from political dissidents along the way. CCP cares so much about chinese!
@@americanpatriot126 If they want to wipe out the culture of ethnic minorities, why does the Chinese government print all the languages of ethnic minorities on their money? and why do all the tourist attractions have ethnic minority languages on their billboards?
I strongly urge American people can open schools which they only teach Native American languages, African languages, Spanish and Chinese, no English. If they don't, who are they to accuse China as "eroding" their native languages?
Learning a common national language opens up economic opportunities for minorities..I’m sure those western news wouldn’t utter a word if indigenous people were forced to learn English..
Every American has to be able to speak English. What's wrong with a Chinese citizen has to learn to speak Mandarin? Another example of western double standard.
I speak Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka, Spanish, and English, a diversified language education is useful and can make peoples learn more and more interesting things from all over the world.
The most important reason why many minorities in the world are generally poor is the lack of a language to access education, business, communication, and the most important modern science and technology. This is the same native Indian in USA and Canada.
The american and canadian govt dont promote ethnic language in their school is this act same ad eradicating the culture heritage of the indian people and an act of genocide
a lot of people doesn't understand about China In Malaysia, some extremist is trying to eliminate the multiracial culture like Multi-Language Signboard which include Chinese
it's not they don't understand. It's the western world's imperative to divide the chinese people and make them weak again. That's why USA and her allies are pushing the ccp is evil propaganda and narrative. There is a reason why USA and other western countries are pushing for democracy in China. Because it will make it easier to divide the people. USA is planning to take down the country now. They recently removed the east turkistan party off their terror list to support armed conflict in China.
@@AutoAllan apartheid died in South Africa a long time ago but it's thriving in Malaysia to the oblivion of most of the rest of the world. Racism and religious extremism are used by the monopolistic Malay administration to unfairly oppress the minorities
@@chongdi6140 Not all Malays, it's right-wing nationalist concurrent with religionist Salafi Malays as the ruling coalition in administration controlling the narrative, that undermining the secularism foundation of Malaysia.
China also publishes *more books than any other* in the world, this implies Mandarin Chinese language is going to play an important role in the future. _Countries by books published_ *1. China (440,000 books)* 2. United States (304,912 books) 3. United Kingdom (184,000 books) 4. Japan (139,078 books) 5. Russia (101,981 books) 6. Germany (93,600 books) ... Source: _Books published per country per year_ wikipedia.org/wiki/Books_published_per_country_per_year#List_of_countries
@golden retreiver Who said China is erasing Mongolian language classes in Inner Mongolia? Here's CGTN video that *debunks* that idea. Video: _The Point: Are media exaggerating fears over new Mandarin classes in Inner Mongolia?_ ruclips.net/video/B4yvxz0cehg/видео.html
The fact that China puts the ethnic group languages on their currency, shows they actually do care. Great video Cyrus, I've learned something new today.
@@taimingchan8818 As the world's most populous country, China has (statistically speaking) the most *brainpower* to come up with plans and ideas, as well as the most *manpower* to implement said plans and turn ideas into reality. Larger populations have more geniuses, and since China's population is 4x that of USA, there should be at least 4 Chinese geniuses to every 1 American genius. Source: _China's Statistical Advantage: Large populations have more geniuses_ iiipublishing.com/blog/2018/06/blog_06_07_2018.html _Consider two standard bell curves, say one with 1.4 billion people and one with 326 million. The number of average people in China is very close to 4.3 times the number of average people in the U.S. That is also true for those in the top 2% say, which produces scientists, the best business and government people, and the most competent computer programmers. Even there, China would have a 4.3 to 1 advantage, which would be quite an advantage, everything else being equal._
@@asqwer8 there are a lot of stupid people in the united states, believe me, A LOT. but that could means that there are 4.1 more stupid people over china than in the US?
Hope you can find your best hometown in west countries. I guess English also attacked cultural diversity in India. you should let Anglo-Saxon hold it accountable, it's justice
@@keyboardmanfromchina6186 Thanks, my hometown is always that small village in northern China. English as a language in India is an interesting topic. imo, it is similar to but more complicated than Mandarin in China. It depends on how many cultural aspects a language brought into the domestic culture, and how resilient that culture is to can preserve its own culture. After all, a language is a tool to deliver messages, and culture is only one aspect of those messages.
As a Chinese there are dozens of accent &’languages’ said, if you do not unified it how can you communicate? Just like the state people teach in English, but there are Spanish France Indian Chinese languages users. People need a language everyone can understand, that is way mandarin is used.
@@Miguel-ly4bm if there is accent it is technically not ‘Madrid’ ，even Ⅰ don’t speak a standard Madrid, Ⅰ am a combination of a bit Beijing and Jilin accent.
also, I haven't even mentioned the vast native tribes from Alaska to Florida and Hawaii to Maine. these tribal languages are only preserved by the remaining few elders and are destined to go extinct but Geeze where is the US government in all of this. Not only does the government don't Help but they are the Cause of the rappid demise of these tribes and cultures.
Same here in Canada 🇨🇦 Not only are their languages not protected, they suffered constantly in all aspects, here’s a more recent report on one of them : www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-investigation-racial-bias-in-canadian-prison-risk-assessments/
Actually the western countries are not real confident and open countries which they think they are. They don't have a system to support minority languages and ban the competitors from outside of the western world.
New Zealand is now doing a great job in promoting the indigenous Maori language, but this efforts has only been a recent one after the Maori people fought to keep their language alive some time in the 1980s.
@@smwk2017 You could learn foreign languages or your native language as secondary but not as main language. There is no different than what China is doing.
Is a free and open media and a transparent government important? Not to the CCP! But making sure they erase all other cultures and thoughts besides chinese is very important.
@@americanpatriot126 How exactly does China erase other cultures? Ethnic minorities in China (e.g Tibetans, Uighurs, Mongols, Manchu, even Koreans in Northeastern China) aren't subject to the One Child Policy, so they can have as many kids as they want. The population of ethnic minorities in China actually increased over the years under communist party leadership.
China has a total of 129 dialects. I've seen a lot of Chinese and foreign vloggers travel all over China (including Tibet, Xiniang and other remote areas) with ease because they speak the common language Mandarin. From the minority stand point it helps tremendously too because now the young people will get more opportunities, they can go to college in another province or find a job in a different city without language barrier. The Chinese government never asks the minorities to abandon their own languages, they just want them to learn the official language Mandarin sooner. I think it's a pretty amazing achievement on that aspect.
@@americanpatriot126 erase what cultures? give me a specific culture that was erased and I'll give you the fact. If you can't name it then you just are brainwashed by the western media.
In Malaysia, the Chinese minority are almost 4 lingua. ENGLISH, Bahasa melayu, Mandarin & their own dialect... (teochew, hakka, fuchow, hokkien, Cantonese). Some elderly Chinese can understand either Tamil or Hindi. So its very common in South east Asia citizen to speak more than 2 language.
cyrus thank you for sharing this. video. I am Chinese from Sichuan province. you told a truth. in my hometown. I absolutely speak local dialect. everyone. but when we go out like go different province we will speak Mandarin to show our respect. because other Chinese almost don't understand my dialect
It’s crazy. If we want to unify a country, we need a unifying language so people can communicate. But Cantonese is still being spoken by Cantonese in HK, Macau and Guangzhou, where I have my relatives still living. I grew up speaking Cantonese first in Guangzhou and then learned Mandarin in school. The same goes for English being pushed in United States, Canada or any other immigration countries. How would multi-ethnic groups live together if they can’t even communicate? This kind of negative spinning by the illuminati media in the west is trying to destroy China by encouraging fragmenting, division and lack of unification, exactly what the Illuminati wants to destroy China from the inside out, just like them promoting all the independence movements within China trying to split up China. That’s their goal to destroy China, fragmenting the unity of the Chinese, and fragmenting of the physical territory, and promoting and instigating riots, while euphemising their intentions as good. Just remember, as a Chinese American who have lived in USA for decades, there is a bipartisan anti-China agenda. It’s clear across their media and social media. USA has no good intention for China. They just like to euphemise their evil intentions to deceive some brainwashed idiots in China to break up their country. English has to be learned and taught in Canada, USA, Australia and New Zealand and these aren’t even their territories to begin with. What’s wrong with China with 5000 years of history wanting a unifying spoken language to facilitate communication and solidify unity? It’s high hypocrisy because again, the American bipartisan anti-China agenda is pretty clear.
The native Americans are not seen or heard from, their cultures or languages not known about by other Americans. They’re practically “disappeared” - out of sight, out of mind!!!
Actually the western countries are not real confident and open countries which they think they are. They don't have a system to support minority languages and ban the competitors from outside of the western world.
foreign Reserve.. China is First, Next Japan, India is 4th.. So it is now the term of Asia. What China did for HK, France also is following suit by implementing new security law for France, Now USA is doing so. India already has implemented in J & K.
I grew up in Guangdong, and we were encouraged to speak Mandarin in class but we still spoke Cantonese after class. So the gov promotes that Chinese citizens should learn Mandarin doesn't mean they force you to do so.
All nations in this world have national language so that races within a nation can communicate with one another...why should China not doing the right thing????
I grew up in Beijing and Shanghai, was learning mando by default but I still managed to learn and speak canto. No one ever told me in China I couldn't learn another dialect.
@@orbitalpotato9940 My friend went to boarding school in Australia and she spoke Mandarin to her Chinese friend and the girls behind them told them they should not speak Mandarin cos it's an "English speaking country" I was like bits Australia doesn't even have an official language.
I always felt very funny when I said "I speak Chinese". Then my ESL teacher would ask:" what kind of Chinese, Mandarin or Cantonese?". Then I had to explain to them that Cantonese was just one of over 80 local languages which could not be understood/communicated for each other at all. Besides, there are over 2000 types of local dialect mandarin which also make people difficult to understand among different regions. So standard mandarin is very important to communicate with outside world.
I wish I had Mandarin lessons when I was younger. It's quite difficult to learn as an adult with no one to practice with. And this is coming from someone who can speak Cantonese.
A valid question which Western media generally turn blind or stupid when telling their Western readers how China marginalised mother tongue of minorities. Just wondering how many schools in USA conduct classes in the mother tongue of its students. Also are there any places in US public areas displaying signs in Arabic or Russian or German?
@Pierre Van Dick In the US, nothing is being done to preserve the dying native American languages. All the white Americans often quietly talk about how bad the natives have been wronged by their colonising ancestors, but that's it.
I'm minority myself. My family has adapted Mandarin long time ago. I grew up and studied among those who speak Mandarin. To think back, if I did with only my native language, I could've missed a lot of opportunities. So I'm in good position to say adapting Mandarin in mainland is beneficial on individual level and for big picture. When I was 15, I met an expert who majored in my native language. His job as an expert is pretty well-paid as he mentioned. He recommended and introduced a chance for me to start learning it. I simply didn't choose that path and stuck with my hobbies. These days, most of the individuals in my ethnic group speak Mandarin as the primary language. However, those who want to learn my native language are more eager to, because related jobs are well-paid on a more professional level.
Hi Cyrus, learning a few different languages is nothing new for me. I'm from Singapore. When I was young (way back in the 60s), I went to an English school where I also learnt Mandarin and Malay. After school, I speak Cantonese to my family members but I switched to Hokkien or Teochew when I went out to the playground to play with my neighbours. There are about 4-5 different main dialect groups of people residing here. In the last few decades Mandarin was promoted as a tool to help people from the different dialect groups to communicate. English is the main language used in the work place. Thus I agree with you that we need a common language to unite people together and what China is doing, (it started with the first emperor Qin) is common sense.
Great job! Using the languages imprint on the national currency note is surely one of the best way to show how China treat and uphold thier people enthic groups!
Chinese understand how important to speak same language across the country since BC 221 when Emperor Qinshihuang united China for the first time by unified languages, measurements, and so on from 6 different kingdoms.
@Y Z, what was standardized was the written script, not the pronunciation. During the Tang dynasty the Chinese script was adopted by Japan as their official written language.
Crikey! Why does the "Engish language is commonly spoken throughout the world, so does Spanish, in its variants spoken around southern america and the Philippines, Portuguese around isolated regions of the world"? The result of conquest, invasion, murder and rape of the natives from their evil intention of eradication of the invaded local cultures. How many of such invaded countries still retain their own languages and cultures? Not much! Yes, China also falls into this endeavour of unifying the country with a "national language" - begun with the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). Yes, China also begun to use "Surnames aka family or clan names" as early as during the "Shang Dynasty (1600-1050 BC), preserving the many cultures. Surnames have not always existed and today are not universal in all cultures, especially amongst western countries.
@@thisiskevin1000 Yes, that language of conquest is slowly being diluted, close to being pushed into history. Basically, almost the majority of Filipinos are of "asian flock". Philippines indeed has a very colourful history. I read about José Rizal and his fight for independence. He comes from a long line of immigrants from Fujian in China. Up north in Tarlac I can still converse in minnan with the older generation. All in all, most of the cultures of the asian immigrants, including languages has been wiped out. That's is one major effect of conquest by westerners. Bless that China's many dialects and putonghua are still untouched. Oh! but English is slowly creeping in! Cheers!
Actually the western countries are not true confident and open countries which they think they are. They don't have a system to support minority languages and ban the competitors from outside of the western world.
@@af664 I will now add some spices to this chat. It is around the topic of "Thanksgiving", a public holidays in the USA just being celebrated last Thursday. It originated in the early period of colonisation by the British - Pilgrim Fathers on the "Mayflower". They landed in the "new world" where the condition were harsh. They would have perished if not for the generosity of the Native Americans. With more immigrations, they begun to almost wipe out the Native Americans. That was how "American English" destroyed the original culture of America! True to certain extent, no support for minority languages - not even the infamous "native american smoke signals"!
@golden retreiver It's just natural for younger generations to fluent in lingua franca than their ancestral languages. 3rd Gen immigrants in USA also can't speak their ancestral language anymore because they only learn English in their school. Younger Okinawan in Japan also can no longer speak Okinawan fluently because spread of standard Japanese. This is just natural phenomenon, not because repression from CCP.
@@americanpatriot126 Why should China give up Hong Kong? Hong Kong was taken from China by Britain. During the 19th century, the British wanted to continue drinking Chinese tea, but China did not want anything the West had to offer, so Britain waged two bloody wars with China and forced Chinese to buy opium from them at gunpoint, which we didn't want because it made us sick and was poisoning our people. During this weak period of Chinese history, Hong Kong was taken from China and made into British colony, to act as a drug distribution hub to spread the addiction throughout rest of China. Even when Britain renounced ownership over its former territories, Hong Kong was not fully returned back to China, and China had to agree to Sino-British declaration just for Britain to handover what belongs to us.
@@Shenzhou. China agreed to a system of one country, two systems for 50 more years. China BROKE that agreement with the people of Hong Kong, and they forced out the pro-democracy lawmakers at gunpoint. They threatened the HK protestors with prison for disagreement. What kind of government is this? Why does it enforce its will upon HK and break the agreement that the people of HK wanted for their city?
@@americanpatriot126 How exactly did China broke the agreement? Previously before the 1997 handover, Hong Kong was under authoritarian British colonial rule, during which the people of Hong Kong *did not enjoy democracy* and virtually no elections were held by the people of Hong Kong while it was British colony. It's only during the period of Hong Kong's handover back to mainland China, that Hong Kong people finally get to vote in elections for their favourite leaders. So isn't it thanks to mainland China that Hong Kong people finally get democracy under the One Country, Two Systems Policy, when they had none before? For 150 years as a British colony?
@@americanpatriot126 Do you know what the native Americans who are the true Americans called the Anglo-European settler holiday that's celebrated every year to commemorate the first act of native American genocide? You call it Thanksgiving. They call it Thankstaking. Maybe America should delete itself and give back the lands it has stolen to the native Americans. ruclips.net/video/A3A-VqYlD04/видео.html
Double Standard is the middle name of propagandists. 💁♂️ China has so many completely different languages and dialects. People from Beijing won’t understand the Shanghai dialect at all. And people from Shanghai don’t understand Cantonese. Everywhere you go in the US, people speak the same English with minor differences in accent.
You can either view it as amusing irony or shocking hypocrisy or both that a country that actually committed a genocide in the founding of their country (the United States) is pointing its fingers at a nation (China) that only speculatively (with completely no evidence mind you) maltreated some of it's minorities but with allegations that have never been proven.
Talking about the spreading of standard mandarin, it is crucial for the development of China. In my home city Anqing, people have more than 10 distinct local dialects that Anqingers cannot even understand eachother. Therefore, speaking a common dialect is crucial to solve the problem. As Beijing was the nation's capital for many centuries, its dialect have been set as the sole national language since the Yuan dynasty. (also, Beijing dialect is a type 官话 which is by far the most widely spoken dialect group in China). Even during the times which Nanjing was the capital, this did not have to change as Nanjing's dialect is also 官话. For those fuckers who try to say shit about the requirement to speak Madarin in school, they are either stupid or they simply want China to be like India.
I'm gonna make myself an example. Born in 1998. The education that I had is all in mandarin from kindergarten to high school (got my bachelor's degree in the state). But I have no problem to speak and understand Hokkien (Southern Min) and Wenzhouese (AKA Devil's Language lol) at all. Cuz we do speak our dialects in daily life (might not be as much as Cantonese speaking in Guangdong or Hong Kong but still).
There is absolutely nothing wrong for people from different provinces to learn the national language which is Mandarin in addition to their own language. It is just like Americans learn English and learn Spanish, etc if they wish. Nice show Cyrus Thank you again
The problem is that they have to learn Mandarin at the expense of their native language, because there isn't time or energy to learn both equally or well in the current education system
@@nemameido That ain't true, there are bonus to the minorities who speak the native languages in the education system. The problem is that many native languages aren't that useful during the modernization in China, which really depending on the language. For example, if you are a Korean Chinese, the native language you have is useful since there is demand in the society for business with South Koreans. If you are a Mongolian Chinese, and if you are gonna spent your life in big cities like Beijing or Shanghai but not rural grassland, you don't need to speak Mongolian that much most likely.
@@nemameido Are you monolingual? If so, please don't assume all other people are like you. Monolingual people are actually a minority in the world, while multilingual people are the norm. In my country, most people speak at least 2 or 3 languages. People like me who speak 5 languages or more are pretty common too.
@@Vassi_Drakonov I have learned some Chinese so I guess I am somewhat bilingual, but more importantly, my children are and will be trilingual, as I work hard to have them learn their father's native minority language, Mandarin, and English.
@@磨刀石-v3b I am wondering if you have personal experience with the education system in China. Of course people "can" learn their native languages, but because of the few opportunities to use them, parents choose not to teach their kids well and to instead focus on Mandarin.
How dare China teaching its people its own official language, which you need to work and live. What? What other country in the world foes this? What an obtuse practice?
Let's take Quebec a example，the local language is French but they also learn English at school，that doesn't means Canadian gov is baning Quebec people from speak French.
What commonly referred to as "Chinese dialects" are different Sinitic Languages, those are languages spoken mainly by Han Chinese as well as other minorities such as Hui Chinese. There are mainly 10 Sinitic Languages with the largest being Mandarin. Still, each Sinitic language has its own international variations, some less, depends on which one. For my native language the Wu Chinese that is mainly spoken in Southern Jiangsu, Shanghai and Zhejiang Provinces. The variation is greater than Yue Chinese (Cantonese being part of it) that are spoken in mainly in Guangdong but also Guangxi province. As for our Wu Chinese languages, the differences between each variation is so great, we will have a tough time understanding our neighbors even if we drive only about half hour away to a neighboring town. For this reason, Speaking Mandarin is critical to even understand our neighboring cities. But for Cantonese language, there is less variation, so you see it is better preserved and more spoken publicly than ours. Besides Sinitic Languages, there are also around 300 other non sinitic languages (usually spoken by the Minorties) belonging to 10 different languages families such Turkic family, Austroasiatic family, Koreanic family etc, each of them has variation within themselves but the degree of variation are also different depends on which one it is.
well, it's not that cantonese has less variation. it's that we pick the Guangzhou cantonese as the standard cantonese. we have our own sub dialects which aren't mutually intelligible either, but we can talk to each other in standard cantonese. the problem with Wu is that you guys don't have a "standard" Wu.
But I would say the Han people have 10 language groups rather than 10 languages, because each of them (Wu, Yue, Min etc.) comprise of different mutually unintelligible languages.
@@miinfl7143 i think you get this idea from the oversea chinatowns. but i have to tell you it's incorrect. there are lots of sub groups under Yue/cantonese.
@@rickr9435 I'm not sure how you mean this. If you mean that Taishanese is a dialect of Cantonese, that's wrong. I speak Taishanese and understand some Cantonese. They're different languages. If you mean there are other Yue languages besides Cantonese and Taishanese, then yeah, I could be wrong. I base my knowledge on what I've read up on and so far, I haven't seen any Yue languages mentioned besides those two.
even in a country like Malaysia where there are 6 million erhnic chinese from diverse groups such as fujianese,cantonese,hakka,hainanese or chuzhou, mandarin has now replaced these dialects and succeeded in uniting the fragmented chinese groups let alone China.Unity and political stabilty is the key to success of china.
A Malaysian here. I can confirm what you said are true, except the part about Mandarin replacing Chinese dialects. Mandarin hasn't replaced these dialects. Rather, it is used by ethnic Chinese as their common tongue.
@@mynahbird20000 I'm not sure about that. Where I live (East Malaysia), most young Chinese people still speak their dialects besides Mandarin, like Hakka, Cantonese, Hokkien and Foochow. Thanks to them, I had the opportunity to learn to speak Cantonese and a bit of Foochow. Even though I can't speak Hakka and Hokkien, I can somewhat understand these dialects too.
@@mynahbird20000 Both Sabah and Sarawak. I was born in Sarawak, and have lived in both states for around 12 years each. In Sarawak, we have more Foochow and Hokkien speaking Chinese people, while in Sabah, we have more Hakka and Cantonese speaking Chinese people.
Americans have succeeded in eradicating the Cherokee, Sioux, Arapaho and a whole host of native languages and cultures. But not even having to go stateside, here in the UK the English have totally eradicated the Welsh language, that even the Welsh don't know a single word, apart from historical towns and village names. FREE WALES !!!
Find a map of the US from the 1500s. Then you will find out who the Native Americans were.... A lot of them were migrants from Siberia..and from Russia... This is why they look white. In Europe, at least, Europe had a system and it was fair, and it still gave legitimacies to those who were related to the past Kings or Noble people. But in China today... Some of the noble tribes, their chiefs and their people, are marginalised and classified as "Hans".. cos they look "chinese", but their DNA show people that, they have been exclusive, and are the true descendents of the land. Beyond the current ruling class today. Before the central beijing, and before the provincial governors, and CCP members... And all of these people now, are to be expected, to serve and "pay rent"... back to the state. This is the thing. Because these people have no way to express themselves... in any authority and in any actual position and meetings of an international level. This is why their marginalisation is overlooked by so many people.
Really excited that you brought this up. I personally saw parents' anger and frustration because their kids will start Chinese classes from 1st grade. Students will have pressure to study 2 languages and then the 3rd one (English). Parents' worries are: Kids may have less exposure to their mother tongue and lose their cultural heritage. I asked why wouldn't they encourage more exposure to their mother tongue locally, the parents replied with their worries and complaints about the schools. I'd say the central government is pushing all kids the same way to make them competitive and communicate nationwide better. If parents think positively, they should never give up encouraging and using their own languages and should establish more ways to use them. In my school I was only taught in Mandarin Chinese, but I ended up speaking a few dialects and a few other languages. If you encourage yourself and keep on, there is no one that can stop you. Some more words, I'm working on passing down the dialects and minority languages because truly, one can discover a lot more connected cultural relationship between regions and the history of China.
I've been learning Mandarin for three years now - I'm absolutely loving the experience. Not only am I keeping my elderly brain active, I have made some amazing new friends! I doubt I could hold a decent conversation yet but who cares! I am having so much fun it just doesn't matter!!!
I M A PART CHINESE FILIPINO WHO SPEAKS MANDARIN N READ N WRITE CHINESE. SINCE CHINESE IS THE FIRST WRITTEN LANGUAGE ADOPTED BY JAPAN, SO ALL ITS CITIES N TRAIN STATIONS R NAMED IN CHINESE CHARACTERS. I FOUND MY KNOWLEDE OF CHINESE WRITTEN LANGUAGE VERY HELPFUL. N MY ABILITY TO SPEAK MANDARIN MADE ME ABLE TO CONVERSE WITH THE MAINLAND CHINESE WHO CAME TO THE PHILIPPINES. I ALSO ENHOY THE PODCASTS OF CYRUS WHERE HE SPEAKS WITH CHINESE IN MANDARIN. CYRUS SPEAKS VERY FLUENT MANDARIN.
Cyrus thanks for your video, I am a Singaporean Chinese but never been to China before. Happy to learn from you about China, I do have relatives in Guangdong China, and I I can see that you have a open mind.
Awesome report, Cyrus. I got a BA in Mongolian Language and Literature in Inner Mongolia. A Tibetan friend helped me arrange it. Thanks for putting the time and effort into this very important topic. Cheers!
I am from Indonesia. We also have so many ethnic groups in Indonesia with their own language. We all speak and learn Bahasa Indonesia as our official language. We also learn our ethnic language, for example if you live in West Java, in school you will learn Bahasa Indonesia and Basa Sunda (Bahasa / Basa means language in English).
Ya you learn your Indonesian language unfortunately your country do not allow other ethnic to have their own and learn their own Chinese language ....As I known so many chinese Indonesian who do not know speak any chinese language at all...
I really don't like it when people put Hongkonger together with Uyghur/Tibetan/Mongolian, etc cos that makes them look like part of a minority group. They are not. They are part of majority group in China as a whole. And they are also the majority in Hongkong. They like to discriminate mainland Chinese and immigrant from South East Asia in Hongkong. They are very entitled and arrogant.
The complaint that China is eroding Chinese Ethnic groups by teaching them Mandarin seems rather hypocritical to me. It were the Westerners that caused the largest erosion of cultural diversity in the history of mankind. Not only by forcing people of other cultures to speak European languages but also by forcing them to adopt our religion and political system.
I travel to China every year and never pay attention to the printing on China currency and didn’t know it has different languages on the currency. Thank you!
It depends on which bank issue the notes... and as you can see, it would not be the same across the entire country. Cos traditional characters are not on there. And those ones are different to the HK ones.
You are amazing and fantastic Cyrus! You have been sharing highly objective and fair-minded wisdom to the world with your very noble goal of promoting peace and friendship amongst people in the world. Please keep it up! Thanks again for covering another interesting topic in this video!
I know that the government has successfully developed Mongolian and Manchu input methods , so they can use their language in PC or smart phone. A tibet handsome guy called Ding Zhen, he is very famous in China now, he is only 20 but he do not know how to speak Mandarin, that means nobody can push someone must learn Mandarin.
In fact, the Chinese government has even tried to let Uighurs write their own teaching materials, but separatists have added something untrue to the textbooks. For example, they tell their children that they are Turkish, not Chinese. It's even more puzzling than telling a Turkish that he's actually Greek.
@@thisiskevin1000 I know them, the Turks want all peoples who speak Turkic to think that Turkey is their homeland. This seems ridiculous, Turkic is a language family, not a language.
@@weiquan92 Also, the origin of the Turkic language family is most likely North East Asia, near Mongolia, which is very far from modern day Turkey. If anything, the Uyghurs are much closer to their ancestors' homeland.
Even before PRC replaced RPC (KMT) most schools in Guangdong province taught written Chinese in Mandarin style but pronounced it in Cantonese. Particularly in Hong Kong some news paper wrote and write article in Cantonese style for the benefit citizens who had little education. The written Chinese characters being the same, when people from different parts of the country tried in vain to communicate in spoken language , they often resorted to writing the character on their palm to clarify what they actually meant. It was pain in the neck. The CCP has done a good job in enforcing the learning of Mandarin throughout the country. Now the spoken and written language are the same for the Han people. It helps to unify the diverse country. For the minority people it has broaden their world and opportunity too. All in all each additional language one masters ( be it Mandarin or English) provides a person an additional degree of freedom as all polyglots know.
This is an excellent viewpoint. In Australia, we make the indigenous people or what's left of them to learn English so that they have better job opportunities. Otherwise they would struggle in a western society.
Isn't it the case that nearly all countries in the world recognise one or more official languages? Mandarin is the official language of China, which allows all the people to engage in all activities ranging from commerce to recreation with a greater degree of understanding. That said, China is probably the only country in the world, which has invested substantially in preserving cultural heritage of its ethnic minorities.
NOBODY COMPLAINED???? Ouch, After King Kalākaua of Hawai'i died in ''strange circumstances'' during surgery in the US the vicious US sugar planters put Queen Liliʻuokalani in house arrest up on the second floor of her Palace , she could see her people but not talk to them. She later died from profound sadness some say and her people mourned her for a long time, a very sad story. She was a talented song writer: ruclips.net/video/k7f3DjzYE-k/видео.html
if i dont speak english, i wouldnt be able to find better jobs in canada. if you dont speak mandarin, you wont be able to find better jobs in china. period. i have been told by people over and over again " this is canada, you speak english now", how come nobody ever said them " they are eroding my culture"?
Did you know that during the first unified chinese dynasty, there are multiple words for a single word meaning? Language is the most significant unifying factor in unified china.
We speak mandarin in class and local language outside of class. In China there are hundreds of languages. I can’t even communicate with my friend from the neighboring county if we both speak local languages. Learn something before criticizing.
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I didn’t know about the Zhuang language, I thought it was just one of the dialects?
Well said Cyrus couldn't agree more!
Totally agreed with you. Well said! The longer you live in the US, the less trust you have in the Western Media. Always double standards in all China issues!
@@kin9225 it is an ethnic language mainly spoken in Guangxi. My best friend is a Zhuang ethnic girl.
Thank you for the video. Its awesome👍
Hi I am from Malaysia. Your exploration and understanding of China can never be found in international news which predominant by western news.
Its funny that a westerner needs to explain to the world (mainly western) why the chinese gov needs to make its citizens to learn mandarin or chinese...
I am malaysian chinese. I speak 5 languages and write 3 and english is the last language that i learnt because its essential in the commercial world in Malaysia.
Yes I’m Malaysian too live in Europe Ppls even asked me do u think Hong Kong belong China. Just like us Malaysian have to learn Malay but others languages as second language
Learning a different language, grants access to different viewpoints. Learning multiple different languages, grants access to multiple different viewpoints.
When people ask you about whether HK belongs to China, ask them to look up the history.
@@loonwengfatt1416 do also note that there are many skewed versions of history out there on the internet that says Hong Kong is a separate country.
I didn't know China's currency has major minorities' language printed on it. I just checked and didn't see US dollars with Native American's language or Spanish.
Ironic.
It would be too much for hope for America signboards to be written in Native American language.
@@HeinRichKocHPretoria that's not ironic that's American hypocrisy at it's finest. 😉
Some American English speaker will freak out and said it their right not to have other language on their dollar.
Good point, can't imagine America ever doing that
I am Chinese borne oversea, had little knowledge of China, I have learnt tremendously from your Channel, Nathan Rich, Guilo 60, Daniel Dumbriel and more. I was brainwashed for over half of life and very glad to discover the truths.
Western propaganda against China is causing immense damage to the brains of people! However, adults with brains should be able to understand such misdeed with common sense....
ABC here and I grew up hating China due to constant influence from the media. When I finally visited China in my 30’s I too realized how many lies I had been fed and how badly I was brainwashed about China!
@@WALRUSSS western education at best. I'm glad I came to Canada at a very young age but an important age to learn the differences.
Welcome home brother.
Same from Vancouver, I got introduced to Daniel thru Kim Iversen podcast. Started following the rest of these guys shortly after and opened my eyes.
Thank you for telling you this topic. I am a Mongolian living in China. I only started to learn Mandarin in the fourth grade of elementary school at the age of twelve. Now it is the government's request to start learning Mandarin in the first grade of elementary school. This has caused some people with ulterior motives to vilify. China, thank you for clarifying this
Sain!我是汉族，在学藏语，学完会学一点蒙古语维吾尔语。
Excellent video, as always. Many thanks, Cyrus.
If you speak other language than English in America, they will ask you to go back to your Country. While in China, no one will bother about what language you speak but it is for your convenient that you learn Mandarin.
I heard that too from my friend who study in America, back to 1990
This is true. Good point
More American youngsters know how to speak Mandarin Chinese nowadays
Not all true, just because you are not white or black, they might ask you go back to where you came from too
The same is true in Australia. If you speak your native language amongst yourselves, some white people will walk up to you and yell at you, telling you to speak English or go back to your country.
just another new double standards game from western... never mind
Yes, silly countries that care about things such as human rights violations, CCP overlooking massive curruption, se-x sl@very, forced org@n h@rvesting, political prisoners, and massive censorjng.
@@americanpatriot126 I don't think you need to censor those terms with alternative spelling. It's perfectly fine to just type it out normally.
@@rey187 I would prove you wrong but my comment would get deleted. This isn't my first rodeo, buddy.
@@americanpatriot126 Slow down, you're going to choke on that koolaid.
@@americanpatriot126 Let's try that out, shall we? Just without the alternative spelling.
"Yes, silly countries that care about things such as human rights violations, CCP overlooking massive corruption, sex slavery, forced organ harvesting, political prisoners, and massive censoring."
There we go.
I am from Malaysia and we learn mandarin and we still keep our native dialect alive. We can speak hakka, hokkien and Cantonese. Even parents from other ethnic group here sending their children to Chinese school or take up mandarin. English and mandarin is a must these days so we can adapt to both side of the world.
Absolutely! I loved traveling through Malaysia and experiencing and seeing so many different languages at play, it's what makes Malaysia such an amazing country!
@KW Lam its because theres more cantonese ppl in the KL area which affects other chinese people there to also speak cantonese. if you go to penang or johor, you will be hearing hokkien everywhere. and hakka people are spread throughout the entire country and the world. im a hakka person from KL but sadly i couldnt speak hakka. but i can speak cantonese tho bc im from KL and my mom speaks it and i can also speak hokkien cuz my dad speaks it. and we all speak mandarin.
Malaysia Chinese are the among the best oversea Chinese. You kept the culture and heart!
@@ziyanglow289 Sad to see the Hakka langauge die
@@ycteo3407 yea😢, i was thinking of letting my future kids to learn hakka, bc we are hakka people.
The philippines has many local dialects, but its citizens are required to learn speak tagalog, the national language. I never heard an uproar in a foreign newspaper about this.
My school there taught English, Mandarin (traditional characters), and Tagalog. Most subjects were in English. And then there's Hokkien at home.
My ex-girlfriend's newphew (Filipino) only spoke English. His parents saw tagalog as a waste of time and useless. They are and live in the Philippines
LOL，if your country is number2 In the world，I think western media will attack your country😉
Exactly
Correction: local languages. It's more inclusive since in this context I'm assuming you're talking about Cebuano, Ilocano and the like. Unfortunately, yes local languages are under pressure from the national language: Filipino (which is based from Tagalog). Fortunately, the MTB-MLE program is changing that and people like me are actively trying to protect all of the languages here. The Philippines is actually one of the only countries in Eastern Asia (East and Southeast Asia) that has a nationwide minority languages education program.
My 4 year old speaks very good mandarin despite growing up in Sweden, we are so lucky she could for some time grow up in China and Sweden!
That's wonderful! Being able to speak multiple languages is a blessing. I've known a friend in Shanghai. And he knows a family. The child, a quadrilingual, attending a Singaporean international school, can speak her mother tongues, portugese from the father (from Brazil) and German from the mother, and of course English & Mandarin as well.
Unfortunately it is very difficult to children to preserve another language growing up. My children didn't keep their original languages very well.
That's cool. PS: Not many overseas Chinese can speak Chinese.
@@alantan9863 : Speak for yourself. A lot of people could speak their own mother tongue... and that is due to the fact that their parents could. So therefore, they could too. This is why so many actually push back on "mandarin". I don't even understand "mandarin"...
US: teaches American people English
China: teaches Chinese people Mandarin (and some English too)
US: how dare they!
Well said! Only irrational or illogical people can't understand this.
English is so important as Mandarin in China, if you don't get good scores, you will not get into good high school and UC.
If only the chinese were just teaching a new language, and not trying to erase an entire culture in the process. Also, h@rvesting organs from political dissidents along the way. CCP cares so much about chinese!
@@americanpatriot126 China actually preserved the native culture far better than Americans ever did for the Native Americans.
@@americanpatriot126 If they want to wipe out the culture of ethnic minorities, why does the Chinese government print all the languages of ethnic minorities on their money? and why do all the tourist attractions have ethnic minority languages on their billboards?
If what those people claimed were true then English is eroding my Mandarin.
🤣🤣🤣, well said
I strongly urge American people can open schools which they only teach Native American languages, African languages, Spanish and Chinese, no English. If they don't, who are they to accuse China as "eroding" their native languages?
@@huyifan83 America should put Native American language on their signboards and their dollar bills.
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My children are studying English from primary school, and they don't say my provincialism. should I goto street and protest?
Learning a common national language opens up economic opportunities for minorities..I’m sure those western news wouldn’t utter a word if indigenous people were forced to learn English..
Every American has to be able to speak English. What's wrong with a Chinese citizen has to learn to speak Mandarin? Another example of western double standard.
I don’t think by law that you have to be able to speak english to be American, just that you won’t go anywhere in life!
@@tsuikr same, there's no law you have to learn mandarin to be a Chinese.
I speak Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka, Spanish, and English, a diversified language education is useful and can make peoples learn more and more interesting things from all over the world.
The most important reason why many minorities in the world are generally poor is the lack of a language to access education, business, communication, and the most important modern science and technology. This is the same native Indian in USA and Canada.
I am in northern Michigan. There are some native Americans here. All of them speak English. Most of them are mixed with European look.
@@VashtheStampede007 But what have every successive American administrations did in preserve every single native American language and culture?!
@@thisiskevin1000
Nothing.
The american and canadian govt dont promote ethnic language in their school is this act same ad eradicating the culture heritage of the indian people and an act of genocide
a lot of people doesn't understand about China
In Malaysia, some extremist is trying to eliminate the multiracial culture like Multi-Language Signboard which include Chinese
it's not they don't understand. It's the western world's imperative to divide the chinese people and make them weak again. That's why USA and her allies are pushing the ccp is evil propaganda and narrative. There is a reason why USA and other western countries are pushing for democracy in China. Because it will make it easier to divide the people.
USA is planning to take down the country now. They recently removed the east turkistan party off their terror list to support armed conflict in China.
But the state gov has no problem with bahasa malaysia and Jawi road signs....far out.
Mind you, Malaysian has a huge problem in racism against Chinese.
@@AutoAllan apartheid died in South Africa a long time ago but it's thriving in Malaysia to the oblivion of most of the rest of the world. Racism and religious extremism are used by the monopolistic Malay administration to unfairly oppress the minorities
@@chongdi6140 Not all Malays, it's right-wing nationalist concurrent with religionist Salafi Malays as the ruling coalition in administration controlling the narrative, that undermining the secularism foundation of Malaysia.
Being able to learn Chinese is also an investment in the future👌
China also publishes *more books than any other* in the world, this implies Mandarin Chinese language is going to play an important role in the future.
_Countries by books published_
*1. China (440,000 books)*
2. United States (304,912 books)
3. United Kingdom (184,000 books)
4. Japan (139,078 books)
5. Russia (101,981 books)
6. Germany (93,600 books)
...
Source: _Books published per country per year_ wikipedia.org/wiki/Books_published_per_country_per_year#List_of_countries
100%
@golden retreiver Who said China is erasing Mongolian language classes in Inner Mongolia? Here's CGTN video that *debunks* that idea.
Video: _The Point: Are media exaggerating fears over new Mandarin classes in Inner Mongolia?_ ruclips.net/video/B4yvxz0cehg/видео.html
Chinese market are growing, get used to the language
THE FUTURE IS HERE NOW. I FOUND MY KNOWLEDGE OF MANDARIN HAS ENRICHED MY LIFE.
The fact that China puts the ethnic group languages on their currency, shows they actually do care. Great video Cyrus, I've learned something new today.
Great vdo. Thank you !
好喜歡你有中文字幕！👍👏💪💪
It's so simple logic. You just can't argue with someone logically when he is criticizing China's policy by distorting on purpose.
@@taimingchan8818 It sounds like it is too complicated for your brain. Never mind.
@@taimingchan8818 As the world's most populous country, China has (statistically speaking) the most *brainpower* to come up with plans and ideas, as well as the most *manpower* to implement said plans and turn ideas into reality. Larger populations have more geniuses, and since China's population is 4x that of USA, there should be at least 4 Chinese geniuses to every 1 American genius.
Source: _China's Statistical Advantage: Large populations have more geniuses_ iiipublishing.com/blog/2018/06/blog_06_07_2018.html
_Consider two standard bell curves, say one with 1.4 billion people and one with 326 million. The number of average people in China is very close to 4.3 times the number of average people in the U.S. That is also true for those in the top 2% say, which produces scientists, the best business and government people, and the most competent computer programmers. Even there, China would have a 4.3 to 1 advantage, which would be quite an advantage, everything else being equal._
@@taimingchan8818 Are you from Taiwan?
@@asqwer8 there are a lot of stupid people in the united states, believe me, A LOT.
but that could means that there are 4.1 more stupid people over china than in the US?
@@erickorta3171 it's not necessarily true. You have to prove that the IQ distributions are about the same in US and China first.
As a minority myself grew up in China, can't agree more.
Hope you can find your best hometown in west countries. I guess English also attacked cultural diversity in India. you should let Anglo-Saxon hold it accountable, it's justice
Which minority are you from?
@@keyboardmanfromchina6186 Thanks, my hometown is always that small village in northern China. English as a language in India is an interesting topic. imo, it is similar to but more complicated than Mandarin in China. It depends on how many cultural aspects a language brought into the domestic culture, and how resilient that culture is to can preserve its own culture. After all, a language is a tool to deliver messages, and culture is only one aspect of those messages.
@@samuelfanning6598 I'm Korean ethnicity. My great grandparents escaped from the colonized Korea era.
@@GP-po9ie 文化除了要传承，也要注重发展，文化也有优胜劣汰。不过优秀如印度，种姓文化被保护得太好，
As a Chinese there are dozens of accent &’languages’ said, if you do not unified it how can you communicate? Just like the state people teach in English, but there are Spanish France Indian Chinese languages users. People need a language everyone can understand, that is way mandarin is used.
But there will always be a different dialect/accent. Spanish differed from country to region. Leave China and check out madrid accent.
@@Miguel-ly4bm if there is accent it is technically not ‘Madrid’ ，even Ⅰ don’t speak a standard Madrid, Ⅰ am a combination of a bit Beijing and Jilin accent.
@White Christina who said China ban people to learn their own family heritage language?
Did you watch the video?
Pure journalism with no political agenda...
The only thing I want to say to you is THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR TELLING THE WORLD the truth about China!
My pleasure! China has taught me a lot. Thank you for the support
开头地图就错了还有啥好谢的= =
利大于弊
@@otakuskm1329 在外网找的图片里很多中国地图都不是完整的 而且一般的老外并不知道。。不过第二个地图应该是对的
also, I haven't even mentioned the vast native tribes from Alaska to Florida and Hawaii to Maine. these tribal languages are only preserved by the remaining few elders and are destined to go extinct but Geeze where is the US government in all of this. Not only does the government don't Help but they are the Cause of the rappid demise of these tribes and cultures.
Same here in Canada 🇨🇦
Not only are their languages not protected, they suffered constantly in all aspects, here’s a more recent report on one of them : www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-investigation-racial-bias-in-canadian-prison-risk-assessments/
Actually the western countries are not real confident and open countries which they think they are. They don't have a system to support minority languages and ban the competitors from outside of the western world.
New Zealand is now doing a great job in promoting the indigenous Maori language, but this efforts has only been a recent one after the Maori people fought to keep their language alive some time in the 1980s.
Does USA allows its citizens to learn their mother tounge? Especially native Indian people?
And the African Americans.
There is nothing to prevent them from also learning their mother tongue that I am aware of. Though they do need to learn English to attend schools
@@smwk2017 You could learn foreign languages or your native language as secondary but not as main language. There is no different than what China is doing.
entirely agree, a nation cannot develop in good without a unique communication tool...
Is a free and open media and a transparent government important? Not to the CCP! But making sure they erase all other cultures and thoughts besides chinese is very important.
@@americanpatriot126 How exactly does China erase other cultures? Ethnic minorities in China (e.g Tibetans, Uighurs, Mongols, Manchu, even Koreans in Northeastern China) aren't subject to the One Child Policy, so they can have as many kids as they want. The population of ethnic minorities in China actually increased over the years under communist party leadership.
China has a total of 129 dialects. I've seen a lot of Chinese and foreign vloggers travel all over China (including Tibet, Xiniang and other remote areas) with ease because they speak the common language Mandarin. From the minority stand point it helps tremendously too because now the young people will get more opportunities, they can go to college in another province or find a job in a different city without language barrier. The Chinese government never asks the minorities to abandon their own languages, they just want them to learn the official language Mandarin sooner. I think it's a pretty amazing achievement on that aspect.
@@americanpatriot126 erase what cultures? give me a specific culture that was erased and I'll give you the fact. If you can't name it then you just are brainwashed by the western media.
@@americanpatriot126 Erase all other cultures? Do you mean what Europeans did to Native Americans?
In Malaysia, the Chinese minority are almost 4 lingua. ENGLISH, Bahasa melayu, Mandarin & their own dialect... (teochew, hakka, fuchow, hokkien, Cantonese). Some elderly Chinese can understand either Tamil or Hindi. So its very common in South east Asia citizen to speak more than 2 language.
Amazing, for such a common sense article there are still 225 who don't understand it at all.
Cyrus, you are the best!
Wow good video. I learn something new today.
cyrus thank you for sharing this. video. I am Chinese from Sichuan province. you told a truth. in my hometown. I absolutely speak local dialect. everyone. but when we go out like go different province we will speak Mandarin to show our respect. because other Chinese almost don't understand my dialect
NOT ONLY TO SHOW RESPECT, BUT TO BE ABLE TO COMMUNICATE WITH CHINESE FROM DIFFERENT PARTS OF CHINA.
It’s crazy. If we want to unify a country, we need a unifying language so people can communicate. But Cantonese is still being spoken by Cantonese in HK, Macau and Guangzhou, where I have my relatives still living. I grew up speaking Cantonese first in Guangzhou and then learned Mandarin in school. The same goes for English being pushed in United States, Canada or any other immigration countries. How would multi-ethnic groups live together if they can’t even communicate? This kind of negative spinning by the illuminati media in the west is trying to destroy China by encouraging fragmenting, division and lack of unification, exactly what the Illuminati wants to destroy China from the inside out, just like them promoting all the independence movements within China trying to split up China. That’s their goal to destroy China, fragmenting the unity of the Chinese, and fragmenting of the physical territory, and promoting and instigating riots, while euphemising their intentions as good. Just remember, as a Chinese American who have lived in USA for decades, there is a bipartisan anti-China agenda. It’s clear across their media and social media. USA has no good intention for China. They just like to euphemise their evil intentions to deceive some brainwashed idiots in China to break up their country. English has to be learned and taught in Canada, USA, Australia and New Zealand and these aren’t even their territories to begin with. What’s wrong with China with 5000 years of history wanting a unifying spoken language to facilitate communication and solidify unity? It’s high hypocrisy because again, the American bipartisan anti-China agenda is pretty clear.
非常好，客观公正。。。赞博主~~~
The native Americans are not seen or heard from, their cultures or languages not known
about by other Americans. They’re practically “disappeared” - out of sight, out of mind!!!
Actually the western countries are not real confident and open countries which they think they are. They don't have a system to support minority languages and ban the competitors from outside of the western world.
foreign Reserve.. China is First, Next Japan, India is 4th.. So it is now the term of Asia.
What China did for HK, France also is following suit by implementing new security law for France, Now USA is doing so. India already has implemented in J & K.
I grew up in Guangdong, and we were encouraged to speak Mandarin in class but we still spoke Cantonese after class. So the gov promotes that Chinese citizens should learn Mandarin doesn't mean they force you to do so.
All nations in this world have national language so that races within a nation can communicate with one another...why should China not doing the right thing????
I grew up in Beijing and Shanghai, was learning mando by default but I still managed to learn and speak canto. No one ever told me in China I couldn't learn another dialect.
Unlike American residential schools
@@orbitalpotato9940 My friend went to boarding school in Australia and she spoke Mandarin to her Chinese friend and the girls behind them told them they should not speak Mandarin cos it's an "English speaking country" I was like bits Australia doesn't even have an official language.
@@AmelieZh Meanwhile In "multi-cultural" Australia, it's unpleasant if you speak other languages than English in public.
I always felt very funny when I said "I speak Chinese". Then my ESL
teacher would ask:" what kind of Chinese, Mandarin or Cantonese?". Then I had to explain to them that Cantonese was just one of over 80 local languages which could not be understood/communicated for each other at all. Besides, there are over 2000 types of local dialect mandarin which also make people difficult to understand among different regions. So standard mandarin is very important to communicate with outside world.
I wish I had Mandarin lessons when I was younger. It's quite difficult to learn as an adult with no one to practice with.
And this is coming from someone who can speak Cantonese.
Is English eroding Native Americans?
No, USA has freedom of speech!! Native Americans has the right to speak their native language!!!
A valid question which Western media generally turn blind or stupid when telling their Western readers how China marginalised mother tongue of minorities.
Just wondering how many schools in USA conduct classes in the mother tongue of its students. Also are there any places in US public areas displaying signs in Arabic or Russian or German?
@Pierre Van Dick
In the US, nothing is being done to preserve the dying native American languages. All the white Americans often quietly talk about how bad the natives have been wronged by their colonising ancestors, but that's it.
@Pierre Van Dick no. The native languages were very primitive like Chinese. But they realized it was too native. So they switched to english.
Concerning Canada, English and French.
Much of Latin America in Spanish and Brazil with its own brand of Portuguese.
这位up的视频无论是逻辑还是作为听力练习都是极好的，谢谢up！
I'm minority myself. My family has adapted Mandarin long time ago. I grew up and studied among those who speak Mandarin. To think back, if I did with only my native language, I could've missed a lot of opportunities. So I'm in good position to say adapting Mandarin in mainland is beneficial on individual level and for big picture.
When I was 15, I met an expert who majored in my native language. His job as an expert is pretty well-paid as he mentioned. He recommended and introduced a chance for me to start learning it. I simply didn't choose that path and stuck with my hobbies.
These days, most of the individuals in my ethnic group speak Mandarin as the primary language. However, those who want to learn my native language are more eager to, because related jobs are well-paid on a more professional level.
Hi Cyrus, learning a few different languages is nothing new for me. I'm from Singapore. When I was young (way back in the 60s), I went to an English school where I also learnt Mandarin and Malay. After school, I speak Cantonese to my family members but I switched to Hokkien or Teochew when I went out to the playground to play with my neighbours. There are about 4-5 different main dialect groups of people residing here. In the last few decades Mandarin was promoted as a tool to help people from the different dialect groups to communicate. English is the main language used in the work place. Thus I agree with you that we need a common language to unite people together and what China is doing, (it started with the first emperor Qin) is common sense.
Great job! Using the languages imprint on the national currency note is surely one of the best way to show how China treat and uphold thier people enthic groups!
CYRUS IS VERY INTELLIGENT. I LEARNED FOR THE FIRST TIME THIS FACT FROM CYRUS. MANY THANKS TO CYRUS.
Chinese understand how important to speak same language across the country since BC 221 when Emperor Qinshihuang united China for the first time by unified languages, measurements, and so on from 6 different kingdoms.
@Y Z, what was standardized was the written script, not the pronunciation. During the Tang dynasty the Chinese script was adopted by Japan as their official written language.
Crikey! Why does the "Engish language is commonly spoken throughout the world, so does Spanish, in its variants spoken around southern america and the Philippines, Portuguese around isolated regions of the world"? The result of conquest, invasion, murder and rape of the natives from their evil intention of eradication of the invaded local cultures.
How many of such invaded countries still retain their own languages and cultures? Not much!
Yes, China also falls into this endeavour of unifying the country with a "national language" - begun with the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644).
Yes, China also begun to use "Surnames aka family or clan names" as early as during the "Shang Dynasty (1600-1050 BC), preserving the many cultures.
Surnames have not always existed and today are not universal in all cultures, especially amongst western countries.
Older generation in the Philippines can speak Spanish.
Successive generations can speak English and standard Filipino.
@@thisiskevin1000 Yes, that language of conquest is slowly being diluted, close to being pushed into history. Basically, almost the majority of Filipinos are of "asian flock". Philippines indeed has a very colourful history. I read about José Rizal and his fight for independence. He comes from a long line of immigrants from Fujian in China. Up north in Tarlac I can still converse in minnan with the older generation. All in all, most of the cultures of the asian immigrants, including languages has been wiped out. That's is one major effect of conquest by westerners. Bless that China's many dialects and putonghua are still untouched. Oh! but English is slowly creeping in! Cheers!
Actually the western countries are not true confident and open countries which they think they are. They don't have a system to support minority languages and ban the competitors from outside of the western world.
@@af664 I will now add some spices to this chat. It is around the topic of "Thanksgiving", a public holidays in the USA just being celebrated last Thursday.
It originated in the early period of colonisation by the British - Pilgrim Fathers on the "Mayflower". They landed in the "new world" where the condition were harsh. They would have perished if not for the generosity of the Native Americans.
With more immigrations, they begun to almost wipe out the Native Americans. That was how "American English" destroyed the original culture of America! True to certain extent, no support for minority languages - not even the infamous "native american smoke signals"!
"They are eroding local languages!"
"DO yOu sPeAk EnnGLliShhh!??"
@golden retreiver also there's not only uighurs in Xinjiang. Also not only Mongolians in inner Mongolia.
@golden retreiver also native Americans didn't wish to be colonized either, lol
@golden retreiver It's just natural for younger generations to fluent in lingua franca than their ancestral languages. 3rd Gen immigrants in USA also can't speak their ancestral language anymore because they only learn English in their school.
Younger Okinawan in Japan also can no longer speak Okinawan fluently because spread of standard Japanese.
This is just natural phenomenon, not because repression from CCP.
很感动！我作为上海人，给你的一句"乏来赛"，点一个大大的赞👍！
谢谢你这么深刻地理解，中国政府推广普通话的积极意义，并用你的母语，让世界上更多的人，了解中国，避免误读推广普通话的真实目的。
I AGREE. I M A FILIPINO WITH PARTLY CHINESE BLOOD. THANK GOD I CAN READ N WRITE CHINESE CHARACTERS. N I SPEAK MANDARIN TOO.
Cyrus, you and Daniel are my best RUclipsrs. I can’t wait for the next week’s video.
Malaysian here, my ancestors from fuzhou (called foochow here) and my dialect say it as "mo ne ngai" 😝
people like you should really do something for this world. This is a good starting point. But there are others ways to reach/benefit more people.
He should have some self respect and delete his channel. And the currupt CCP should give back HK.
@@americanpatriot126 Why should China give up Hong Kong? Hong Kong was taken from China by Britain. During the 19th century, the British wanted to continue drinking Chinese tea, but China did not want anything the West had to offer, so Britain waged two bloody wars with China and forced Chinese to buy opium from them at gunpoint, which we didn't want because it made us sick and was poisoning our people. During this weak period of Chinese history, Hong Kong was taken from China and made into British colony, to act as a drug distribution hub to spread the addiction throughout rest of China.
Even when Britain renounced ownership over its former territories, Hong Kong was not fully returned back to China, and China had to agree to Sino-British declaration just for Britain to handover what belongs to us.
@@Shenzhou. China agreed to a system of one country, two systems for 50 more years. China BROKE that agreement with the people of Hong Kong, and they forced out the pro-democracy lawmakers at gunpoint. They threatened the HK protestors with prison for disagreement. What kind of government is this? Why does it enforce its will upon HK and break the agreement that the people of HK wanted for their city?
@@americanpatriot126 How exactly did China broke the agreement? Previously before the 1997 handover, Hong Kong was under authoritarian British colonial rule, during which the people of Hong Kong *did not enjoy democracy* and virtually no elections were held by the people of Hong Kong while it was British colony. It's only during the period of Hong Kong's handover back to mainland China, that Hong Kong people finally get to vote in elections for their favourite leaders.
So isn't it thanks to mainland China that Hong Kong people finally get democracy under the One Country, Two Systems Policy, when they had none before? For 150 years as a British colony?
@@americanpatriot126 Do you know what the native Americans who are the true Americans called the Anglo-European settler holiday that's celebrated every year to commemorate the first act of native American genocide? You call it Thanksgiving. They call it Thankstaking. Maybe America should delete itself and give back the lands it has stolen to the native Americans.
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Yes, Mandarin is essential for China to move forward. The real problem is that the West doesn't want China to move forward.
Double Standard is the middle name of propagandists. 💁♂️
China has so many completely different languages and dialects. People from Beijing won’t understand the Shanghai dialect at all. And people from Shanghai don’t understand Cantonese.
Everywhere you go in the US, people speak the same English with minor differences in accent.
You can either view it as amusing irony or shocking hypocrisy or both that a country that actually committed a genocide in the founding of their country (the United States) is pointing its fingers at a nation (China) that only speculatively (with completely no evidence mind you) maltreated some of it's minorities but with allegations that have never been proven.
Talking about the spreading of standard mandarin, it is crucial for the development of China. In my home city Anqing, people have more than 10 distinct local dialects that Anqingers cannot even understand eachother. Therefore, speaking a common dialect is crucial to solve the problem. As Beijing was the nation's capital for many centuries, its dialect have been set as the sole national language since the Yuan dynasty. (also, Beijing dialect is a type 官话 which is by far the most widely spoken dialect group in China). Even during the times which Nanjing was the capital, this did not have to change as Nanjing's dialect is also 官话. For those fuckers who try to say shit about the requirement to speak Madarin in school, they are either stupid or they simply want China to be like India.
My two Indian employees are from north and south India, and they can't communicate with each other without English
I'm gonna make myself an example.
Born in 1998. The education that I had is all in mandarin from kindergarten to high school (got my bachelor's degree in the state).
But I have no problem to speak and understand Hokkien (Southern Min) and Wenzhouese (AKA Devil's Language lol) at all.
Cuz we do speak our dialects in daily life (might not be as much as Cantonese speaking in Guangdong or Hong Kong but still).
There is absolutely nothing wrong for people from different provinces to learn the national language which is Mandarin in addition to their own language. It is just like Americans learn English and learn Spanish, etc if they wish. Nice show Cyrus Thank you again
The problem is that they have to learn Mandarin at the expense of their native language, because there isn't time or energy to learn both equally or well in the current education system
@@nemameido That ain't true, there are bonus to the minorities who speak the native languages in the education system. The problem is that many native languages aren't that useful during the modernization in China, which really depending on the language. For example, if you are a Korean Chinese, the native language you have is useful since there is demand in the society for business with South Koreans. If you are a Mongolian Chinese, and if you are gonna spent your life in big cities like Beijing or Shanghai but not rural grassland, you don't need to speak Mongolian that much most likely.
@@nemameido
Are you monolingual? If so, please don't assume all other people are like you. Monolingual people are actually a minority in the world, while multilingual people are the norm. In my country, most people speak at least 2 or 3 languages. People like me who speak 5 languages or more are pretty common too.
@@Vassi_Drakonov I have learned some Chinese so I guess I am somewhat bilingual, but more importantly, my children are and will be trilingual, as I work hard to have them learn their father's native minority language, Mandarin, and English.
@@磨刀石-v3b I am wondering if you have personal experience with the education system in China. Of course people "can" learn their native languages, but because of the few opportunities to use them, parents choose not to teach their kids well and to instead focus on Mandarin.
How dare China teaching its people its own official language, which you need to work and live. What? What other country in the world foes this? What an obtuse practice?
Let's take Quebec a example，the local language is French but they also learn English at school，that doesn't means Canadian gov is baning Quebec people from speak French.
Thanks for giving such a thorough explanation to the world about this issue which is being distorted by some media to smear China.
What commonly referred to as "Chinese dialects" are different Sinitic Languages, those are languages spoken mainly by Han Chinese as well as other minorities such as Hui Chinese. There are mainly 10 Sinitic Languages with the largest being Mandarin. Still, each Sinitic language has its own international variations, some less, depends on which one. For my native language the Wu Chinese that is mainly spoken in Southern Jiangsu, Shanghai and Zhejiang Provinces. The variation is greater than Yue Chinese (Cantonese being part of it) that are spoken in mainly in Guangdong but also Guangxi province. As for our Wu Chinese languages, the differences between each variation is so great, we will have a tough time understanding our neighbors even if we drive only about half hour away to a neighboring town. For this reason, Speaking Mandarin is critical to even understand our neighboring cities. But for Cantonese language, there is less variation, so you see it is better preserved and more spoken publicly than ours. Besides Sinitic Languages, there are also around 300 other non sinitic languages (usually spoken by the Minorties) belonging to 10 different languages families such Turkic family, Austroasiatic family, Koreanic family etc, each of them has variation within themselves but the degree of variation are also different depends on which one it is.
well, it's not that cantonese has less variation. it's that we pick the Guangzhou cantonese as the standard cantonese. we have our own sub dialects which aren't mutually intelligible either, but we can talk to each other in standard cantonese.
the problem with Wu is that you guys don't have a "standard" Wu.
But I would say the Han people have 10 language groups rather than 10 languages, because each of them (Wu, Yue, Min etc.) comprise of different mutually unintelligible languages.
@@rickr9435 Also Yue is made up of two distinct languages: Cantonese and Taishanese.
@@miinfl7143 i think you get this idea from the oversea chinatowns. but i have to tell you it's incorrect. there are lots of sub groups under Yue/cantonese.
@@rickr9435 I'm not sure how you mean this. If you mean that Taishanese is a dialect of Cantonese, that's wrong. I speak Taishanese and understand some Cantonese. They're different languages.
If you mean there are other Yue languages besides Cantonese and Taishanese, then yeah, I could be wrong. I base my knowledge on what I've read up on and so far, I haven't seen any Yue languages mentioned besides those two.
even in a country like Malaysia where there are 6 million erhnic chinese from diverse groups such as fujianese,cantonese,hakka,hainanese or chuzhou, mandarin has now replaced these dialects and succeeded in uniting the fragmented chinese groups let alone China.Unity and political stabilty is the key to success of china.
A Malaysian here. I can confirm what you said are true, except the part about Mandarin replacing Chinese dialects. Mandarin hasn't replaced these dialects. Rather, it is used by ethnic Chinese as their common tongue.
@@Vassi_Drakonov indeed it has especially in the younger generations who can communicate only in mandarin.
@@mynahbird20000
I'm not sure about that. Where I live (East Malaysia), most young Chinese people still speak their dialects besides Mandarin, like Hakka, Cantonese, Hokkien and Foochow. Thanks to them, I had the opportunity to learn to speak Cantonese and a bit of Foochow. Even though I can't speak Hakka and Hokkien, I can somewhat understand these dialects too.
@@Vassi_Drakonov maybe thats sabah but people are more united in West Malaysia
@@mynahbird20000
Both Sabah and Sarawak. I was born in Sarawak, and have lived in both states for around 12 years each.
In Sarawak, we have more Foochow and Hokkien speaking Chinese people, while in Sabah, we have more Hakka and Cantonese speaking Chinese people.
America: China forces people to speak Mandarin!
Also America: We speak American English here! Learn it or get out of my country.
Americans have succeeded in eradicating the Cherokee, Sioux, Arapaho and a whole host of native languages and cultures. But not even having to go stateside, here in the UK the English have totally eradicated the Welsh language, that even the Welsh don't know a single word, apart from historical towns and village names. FREE WALES !!!
Find a map of the US from the 1500s. Then you will find out who the Native Americans were.... A lot of them were migrants from Siberia..and from Russia... This is why they look white. In Europe, at least, Europe had a system and it was fair, and it still gave legitimacies to those who were related to the past Kings or Noble people. But in China today... Some of the noble tribes, their chiefs and their people, are marginalised and classified as "Hans".. cos they look "chinese", but their DNA show people that, they have been exclusive, and are the true descendents of the land. Beyond the current ruling class today. Before the central beijing, and before the provincial governors, and CCP members... And all of these people now, are to be expected, to serve and "pay rent"... back to the state. This is the thing.
Because these people have no way to express themselves... in any authority and in any actual position and meetings of an international level. This is why their marginalisation is overlooked by so many people.
Really excited that you brought this up. I personally saw parents' anger and frustration because their kids will start Chinese classes from 1st grade. Students will have pressure to study 2 languages and then the 3rd one (English). Parents' worries are: Kids may have less exposure to their mother tongue and lose their cultural heritage. I asked why wouldn't they encourage more exposure to their mother tongue locally, the parents replied with their worries and complaints about the schools. I'd say the central government is pushing all kids the same way to make them competitive and communicate nationwide better. If parents think positively, they should never give up encouraging and using their own languages and should establish more ways to use them. In my school I was only taught in Mandarin Chinese, but I ended up speaking a few dialects and a few other languages. If you encourage yourself and keep on, there is no one that can stop you. Some more words, I'm working on passing down the dialects and minority languages because truly, one can discover a lot more connected cultural relationship between regions and the history of China.
I've been learning Mandarin for three years now - I'm absolutely loving the experience. Not only am I keeping my elderly brain active, I have made some amazing new friends! I doubt I could hold a decent conversation yet but who cares! I am having so much fun it just doesn't matter!!!
I M A PART CHINESE FILIPINO WHO SPEAKS MANDARIN N READ N WRITE CHINESE. SINCE CHINESE IS THE FIRST WRITTEN LANGUAGE ADOPTED BY JAPAN, SO ALL ITS CITIES N TRAIN STATIONS R NAMED IN CHINESE CHARACTERS. I FOUND MY KNOWLEDE OF CHINESE WRITTEN LANGUAGE VERY HELPFUL. N MY ABILITY TO SPEAK MANDARIN MADE ME ABLE TO CONVERSE WITH THE MAINLAND CHINESE WHO CAME TO THE PHILIPPINES. I ALSO ENHOY THE PODCASTS OF CYRUS WHERE HE SPEAKS WITH CHINESE IN MANDARIN. CYRUS SPEAKS VERY FLUENT MANDARIN.
Cyrus thanks for your video, I am a Singaporean Chinese but never been to China before. Happy to learn from you about China, I do have relatives in Guangdong China, and I I can see that you have a open mind.
Awesome report, Cyrus. I got a BA in Mongolian Language and Literature in Inner Mongolia. A Tibetan friend helped me arrange it. Thanks for putting the time and effort into this very important topic. Cheers!
你的视频总是逻辑清晰，有理有据！👍
I am from Indonesia. We also have so many ethnic groups in Indonesia with their own language. We all speak and learn Bahasa Indonesia as our official language. We also learn our ethnic language, for example if you live in West Java, in school you will learn Bahasa Indonesia and Basa Sunda (Bahasa / Basa means language in English).
Ya you learn your Indonesian language unfortunately your country do not allow other ethnic to have their own and learn their own Chinese language ....As I known so many chinese Indonesian who do not know speak any chinese language at all...
Great video, but I would say that is latin alphabet not english alphabet in 4:20
I was gonna say that too, you beat me there😂😂
Minor error is accepted. Most importantly is the context of why need to learn Han Chinese while preserve ethnic minorities’ languages and dialects.
@@Kotak8 Tottally agree
another amazing insightful video from my favourite youtube channel! thank you cyrus :D
I really don't like it when people put Hongkonger together with Uyghur/Tibetan/Mongolian, etc cos that makes them look like part of a minority group. They are not. They are part of majority group in China as a whole. And they are also the majority in Hongkong. They like to discriminate mainland Chinese and immigrant from South East Asia in Hongkong. They are very entitled and arrogant.
Thanks Cryrus. One should learn their country official laungue .
The complaint that China is eroding Chinese Ethnic groups by teaching them Mandarin seems rather hypocritical to me. It were the Westerners that caused the largest erosion of cultural diversity in the history of mankind. Not only by forcing people of other cultures to speak European languages but also by forcing them to adopt our religion and political system.
I bet if China use English as national language (as in India) then it would be OK. 😄😄😄
It is a mandatory for high school and college..........so you need to score high in English...........................................
@@Miguel-ly4bm well..without the British there is no India.
The national Language of India is Hindi
Thank you Cyrus! I now know more about China from your informative research and on the spot experience.
Love your content and your clear intent. Be factual and truthful, love it.
Cyrus, this is an absolutely amazing video! It should be required viewing for everyone on the planet.
Thank you Richard! So glad you enjoyed
I travel to China every year and never pay attention to the printing on China currency and didn’t know it has different languages on the currency. Thank you!
It depends on which bank issue the notes... and as you can see, it would not be the same across the entire country. Cos traditional characters are not on there. And those ones are different to the HK ones.
“if you don’t speak English, go home”
You are amazing and fantastic Cyrus! You have been sharing highly objective and fair-minded wisdom to the world with your very noble goal of promoting peace and friendship amongst people in the world. Please keep it up! Thanks again for covering another interesting topic in this video!
I SALUTE CYRUS. I FEEL HE IS A MAN WITH GOLDEN HEART. I FEEL HE IS LIKE A CLOSE PERSONAL FRIEND. I LOOK FORWARD TO MEETING HIM PEROSNALLY ONE DAY.
BY THE WAY, I M A FILIPINO WITH PARTLY CHINESE BLOOD.
I know that the government has successfully developed Mongolian and Manchu input methods , so they can use their language in PC or smart phone.
A tibet handsome guy called Ding Zhen, he is very famous in China now, he is only 20 but he do not know how to speak Mandarin, that means nobody can push someone must learn Mandarin.
Cyrus needs to put a lot of effort into re-educating the American and the west(those anti-China) society. Keep up the great work man!
Thank you Cyrus for showing China Constitution to everyone.
I was surprised when my colleague who is a Korean ethnic Chinese told me the education they received were all in Korean, even the text books.
Duhhh they learn mandarin too
In fact, the Chinese government has even tried to let Uighurs write their own teaching materials, but separatists have added something untrue to the textbooks. For example, they tell their children that they are Turkish, not Chinese. It's even more puzzling than telling a Turkish that he's actually Greek.
@@weiquan92 There are separatists based in Turkey and Afghanistan.
@@thisiskevin1000 I know them, the Turks want all peoples who speak Turkic to think that Turkey is their homeland. This seems ridiculous, Turkic is a language family, not a language.
@@weiquan92
Also, the origin of the Turkic language family is most likely North East Asia, near Mongolia, which is very far from modern day Turkey. If anything, the Uyghurs are much closer to their ancestors' homeland.
Even before PRC replaced RPC (KMT) most schools in Guangdong province taught written Chinese in Mandarin style but pronounced it in Cantonese. Particularly in Hong Kong some news paper wrote and write article in Cantonese style for the benefit citizens who had little education. The written Chinese characters being the same, when people from different parts of the country tried in vain to communicate in spoken language , they often resorted to writing the character on their palm to clarify what they actually meant. It was pain in the neck. The CCP has done a good job in enforcing the learning of Mandarin throughout the country. Now the spoken and written language are the same for the Han people. It helps to unify the diverse country. For the minority people it has broaden their world and opportunity too. All in all each additional language one masters ( be it Mandarin or English) provides a person an additional degree of freedom as all polyglots know.
This is an excellent viewpoint. In Australia, we make the indigenous people or what's left of them to learn English so that they have better job opportunities. Otherwise they would struggle in a western society.
Holy crap. I never noticed the different languages on the bank notes....🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
@Aramsawafer educate yourself, you are being rude. 😠😠😠
@@williamwongkimping3998 what did he/she say?
Isn't it the case that nearly all countries in the world recognise one or more official languages?
Mandarin is the official language of China, which allows all the people to engage in all activities ranging from commerce to recreation with a greater degree of understanding.
That said, China is probably the only country in the world, which has invested substantially in preserving cultural heritage of its ethnic minorities.
Hawaii was forced to only learn and speak for ALL SUBJECTS in English.
Nobody complained about that
Some with broken heads think it is alright for US to do that, not for China!!!
Is minority of usa get to learn other languages? Seem like English is the only language
www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2019/06/22/452551172/the-hawaiian-language-nearly-died-a-radio-show-sparked-its-revival#:~:text=The%20Hawaiian%20language%20had%20been,spaces%2C%20English%20quickly%20replaced%20Hawaiian.
www.to-hawaii.com/hawaiian-language.php
NOBODY COMPLAINED???? Ouch, After King Kalākaua of Hawai'i died in ''strange circumstances'' during surgery in the US the vicious US sugar planters put Queen Liliʻuokalani in house arrest up on the second floor of her Palace , she could see her people but not talk to them. She later died from profound sadness some say and her people mourned her for a long time, a very sad story. She was a talented song writer:
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Cyrus, you have explained it brilliantly, Kudos! Support from Malaysia 🇲🇾
if i dont speak english, i wouldnt be able to find better jobs in canada. if you dont speak mandarin, you wont be able to find better jobs in china. period.
i have been told by people over and over again " this is canada, you speak english now", how come nobody ever said them " they are eroding my culture"?
It is like saying people in Wales and Scotland must not learn English as it weaken their culture lol!
The first day I came to the us, some people told me:” this is America, speak English!” But I was like, but this is not UK. 😂😂😂
Did you know that during the first unified chinese dynasty, there are multiple words for a single word meaning? Language is the most significant unifying factor in unified china.
We speak mandarin in class and local language outside of class. In China there are hundreds of languages. I can’t even communicate with my friend from the neighboring county if we both speak local languages.
Learn something before criticizing.
As always, your video is very informative. Keep uploading more videos.
Thank you Cyrus for educating our minds and our younger generation, explaining why unifying our mother language is so important! 🙏