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Greta75 -> RE: Trump Tells his Supporters stop harrassing Minorities (11/14/2016 11:11:00 PM)
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ORIGINAL: tamaka
Ok thanks....i'll let my dad know. He seems to think she works for the kgb.
This also makes me think about something.
Before my country made English the official language and made it compulsory for everybody to learn it. The chinese spoke infact, different types of dialect. Not even Mandarin. So you could literally have one chinese speak cantonese and another speak Hokkien, and they wouldn't be able to understand each other at all. And both may not speak Mandarin at all. We literally had to get a learn Mandarin campaign specially for the Chinese population to be able to learn to understand and communicate with each other as they couldn't understand each other languages.
And of course the Indians spoke Tamil and the Malays spoke Malay. And the British occupiers spoke English.
I notice My grandfather and basically alot of older generation, although extremely uneducated but end up being able to speak ALL those languages. My grandfather must have spoken 7 languages! He was also practically zero education, but his languages spoken were like all fluent. Because if you don't learn, you couldn't communicate and trade with the other people who speak different languages from you. So everybody is just forced to speak everything.
I think because Europe is so special, like all their neighbours speak a different language. Take Switzerland for example. It's one country, but 3 different parts of countries, are split up, like different first language. Italian, French and German. So same country and they don't speak each other languages. And I think English is not compulsory since when I was there, many people could not understand English when I spoke to them. But imagine to communicate with each other, they need to learn each other languages. It becomes such a necessity.
PS: My friends are convinced it's just racism, when they pretend they don't understand or speak English. But I choose to believe they genuinely didn't speak it ha. Because if it's racism, then that is majority of them over there! Literally shops, restaurants, people on the street, everywhere.
I get the same bullshit in Hong Kong. If I speak Mandarin or English, everyone pretends not to understand me. Again could be "racism", as Hong Kong people despise Mandarin speakers. But because I look Chinese, they expect me to speak Cantonese.
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