[Bryanw92]

>>Something basic must be going in the crapper in China.

Yeah...something basic like Chinese Culture. When you let foreigners push a foreign language into your own until your people use the new language without thinking, you have surrendered a part of your culture.

Good thing we don’t have any of that here!

[muawiyah]

Min, one of the more ancient Chinese language(groups) ~ kind of the lead language in the South for many centuries ~ has been taken abroad with the Chinese diaspora. It is found throughout Sumatra and across the Straits of Malacca in Malaysia. In some areas it is the dominant language.

Demonstrating the flexibility Chinese languages have in absorbing words from others, Min ~ with 8 tones ~ is estimated by authorities in the matter to have a vocabulary which is at least 30% Dutch in origin!

The folks who've been pushing Mandarin as a language for general use among the Chinese know what can happen ~ next thing you now it'd be just like Min!

Frankly, as Bill Gates has demonstrated with the icon set he's inserted into the world computing environment, Chinese, both written and spoken, can be subverted successfully with improved characters and words.

The Chinese are going to lose this one.

Notice that English accepted Bill's new characters without a whimper.

[a fool in paradise]

There is no cultural “exchange” present in the world today.

Saudi Arabia funds the expansion of Islam in the West (funding the construction of mosques) while prohibiting any other religions from being practiced.

China and France and Quebec work to preserve a national language while the United States offers election ballots in Spanish and Vietnamese and even foreign language street names.

The Left pushed multiculturalism as a means of subverting the domestic culture, not embracing different cultures. It was strictly about cultural decay. Rot the system from within.