Posted on 09/11/2019 12:30:00 AM PDT by Zhang Fei
Anyone reading much of Wikipedia can’t help but notice more and more topics being presented as having Chinese origin.
[Ah, I see the Chinese are working up the master race idea...]
Anyway, the master race idea is sectarian and not conducive to what they’re really into - the idea of universal empire. It’s the same ideology that animated the creation of the Chinese empire - that all men have common roots, from which it follows, in the Chinese weltanschaaung, that all under heaven should be ruled by one man, preferably the ruler of the Middle Kingdom.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianxia
The coda to the Jet Li movie “Hero”, and the centerpiece of Chinese strategic thought? Universal peace can only be achieved upon the achievement of universal empire. The beauty of this line of thought? A philosophical strain that gives its rulers a blank check for glory-seeking in the vein of Alexander and Caesar.
In that respect, China’s no different from Russia and probably every other non-Western country that did not go through the meat-grinder of WWI. But its economy is getting to the point when its leaders have the economic wherewithal to engage in the sport of kings - territorial aggrandizement for eternal fame. If you had said to me, back in the 80’s, that China would make a claim for the entire South China Sea, an area 1/3 the size of the US, I’d say you were paranoid. But here we are.
Funny scene. Funny movie.
LOL. I’ve been personally told by many Chinese that English is a VERY DIFFICULT language for them to learn. If it were just a dialect of Mandarin, you’d think it would be a piece of cake.
Anyone reading much of Wikipedia can’t help but notice more and more topics being presented as having Chinese origin.
China has been quietly and efficiently spreading power and influence over the whole globe while we took advantage of their cheaper labor and products.
Only President Trump has done anything to counter it through the trade war.
Once I learned how to transliterate, I was shocked at how similar Russian and English are.
But you can barely have two languages as fundamentally dissimilar as English and Chinese.
So the Chinese authorities are going full-on Nazi.
The Egyptians have the Chinese beaten, I believe, for the age of language, plus linguistically, Mandarin is a hard language for English speakers to learn because is very clearly not closely related. There is a lot to respect about the Chinese using written language to unite their country rather than spoken language, but as impressive as that is, they are not the only humans with good ideas, or bad ideas.
They’re not even the same class of language. Sheesh.
Obviously not.
If English is a dialect of Mandarin, that would help explain why Mandarin is so easy for English speakers to learn. /S
PING
Great comments. Revisionist history ALERT!
RIIIIIIGHT!
We us a different written alphabet as opposed to pictographs, structure is completely different, we use articles, no similarity between the sounds of words....
Puh-lease.
English is a great improvement over Mardarin.
As a non-native English speaker, I advise everyone that no sane people would want to take credit for English. It is insane.
I’d also note that, by its very design, English absorbs ever other language, especially American English. And even some non-languages, like urban low class black.
So while the scientists’ thesis is absurd, I have no doubt English has absorbed Mandarin in some way.
Ah so desu !
It has.
When I first went to Singapore over 30 years ago, i learned my first Mandarin.
I entered a store, and the shopkeeper said,
“Wa ya wan?”
No no no — all culture came from mud huts in Africa. Good grief, people!
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