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Linc
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| Message 17 of 19 26 July 2010 at 9:09am | IP Logged |
johntm93 wrote:
pkany wrote:
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.
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Do the Mandarin speakers just hate that they have a different language/culture? |
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No. But the Han culture is relative protective. That is local residents always have some discriminations on outcomers. This applies to every Han subgroup. Some group are more serious like shanghainese or Hakka. Probalby for this reason, there was a wall built for more than 1000 yrs.
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| Message 18 of 19 26 July 2010 at 9:18am | IP Logged |
rabo wrote:
Linc wrote:
pkany wrote:
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.
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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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Those people risked their lives to join the rally.
So can you imagine how big the suppression is?
China changes every month, everyday.
When you see people face to face, they won't tell you real feeling about these sensitive issues. Even if I see Northerner, I would not insult them directly for killing off Cantonese.
The admin in here can't stop deleting pictures of the rally.
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My friend, are you from HK?
"risked their lives"? "suppression"?
You see army?
I got chance met several protests before. Not too big and all peaceful. People mainly ask for their interest. I think quite ok.
But to the topic.
I would like to ask:
What is the Cantonese culture and cantonese identity?
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