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newyorkeric
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 Message 11 of 19
26 July 2010 at 5:26am | IP Logged 
What is the point of debating this? The WHOLE story is crystal clear from the original post. What's happened now is that this thread has gone severely off topic from the message that is obviously deeply important to you.

Edited by newyorkeric on 26 July 2010 at 5:33am
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 Message 12 of 19
26 July 2010 at 5:39am | IP Logged 
Couldn't post the picture correctly, but this is what this thread is -.-

I've always hated hearing about how gov'ts suppress languages, I don't really understand it (probably because I've never had personal experience with it). I guess it can be a way of ruining a people's spirit and stuff like that.

Why is there all this anger towards Cantonese anyway?

Edited by johntm93 on 26 July 2010 at 5:41am
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 Message 14 of 19
26 July 2010 at 6:12am | IP Logged 
pkany wrote:
johntm93 wrote:
Couldn't post the picture
correctly, but this is what this thread is -.-

I've always hated hearing about how gov'ts suppress languages, I don't really understand it (probably because
I've never had personal experience with it). I guess it can be a way of ruining a people's spirit and stuff like that.

Why is there all this anger towards Cantonese anyway?



Geographically, Canton, refers to nowadays Guangdong and Guangxi, locates in Southeast Asia. The race of
Cantonese people look more like Southeast Asian whose has darker skin complexion and their language sounds
more like Southeast Asian languages like Tai-Kadai and Austronesian. All I say, Cantonese culture is different
from the mainstream China. Cantonese language is unintelligible with Mandarin. Shanghaiese (Wu) can
communicate with Mandarin people with serious effort. But it not the same case for Cantonese. Therefore,
Cantonese people are harder to control.
Besides, Cantonese are referred as "a group that loves revolution".
Kill off Cantonese language. Kill of their identity. Kill off rebellion.

This kind of rally is probably the first in China.
Do the Mandarin speakers just hate that they have a different language/culture?
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 Message 16 of 19
26 July 2010 at 8:56am | IP Logged 
pkany wrote:
johntm93 wrote:
Couldn't post the picture
correctly, but this is what this thread is -.-

I've always hated hearing about how gov'ts suppress languages, I don't really understand it (probably because
I've never had personal experience with it). I guess it can be a way of ruining a people's spirit and stuff like that.

Why is there all this anger towards Cantonese anyway?



Geographically, Canton, refers to nowadays Guangdong and Guangxi, locates in Southeast Asia. The race of
Cantonese people look more like Southeast Asian whose has darker skin complexion and their language sounds
more like Southeast Asian languages like Tai-Kadai and Austronesian. All I say, Cantonese culture is different
from the mainstream China. Cantonese language is unintelligible with Mandarin. Shanghaiese (Wu) can
communicate with Mandarin people with serious effort. But it not the same case for Cantonese. Therefore,
Cantonese people are harder to control.
Besides, Cantonese are referred as "a group that loves revolution".
Kill off Cantonese language. Kill of their identity. Kill off rebellion.

This kind of rally is probably the first in China.



Wowww...Sounds like a big event.

But I guess you probably think too much, my friend.

I am a native cantonese speaker and I used to live in Guangzhou for several years. I think I know more than most people here.

Keep reading your words and I found you seemed trying to distort something and the logic is quite messy.


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