Why, and how?

This is the first video from y'all I actually hated. The Chinese languages are wonderful and can express the full range of human emotion and feeling like all other languages, it doesn't prevent creativity like you claim. Did you forget that China lead the world in technology long before the genocidal imperialists you also claim to love set this planet on a suicidal course of war, climate damage, and over consumption?

Now your points:
10, 2. Across the entire planet Mandarin and Cantonese are very common due to lots of emigration since the 19th century. Virtually every country in the world has a small to significant Chinese populations. Often the younger generations learn the local languages very quickly, but knowing the language or attempting your best does smooth relations wonderfully.

9, 7, 1. This is not true. Yes they learn and use the Latin Alphabet (as does the rest of the world) but Chinese does have a system of spelling out words with their own characters.

Additionally, the elite certainly benefited from limited literacy (as all elites do) but China had another reason to keep the character system. Imagine that a person in Spain, Denmark, Poland, and Turkey could all pick up the same paper and read it..... without a common language. That is the power of the Chinese characters. They can take languages as different as Danish and Spanish and let them read the same sentence. It was a massively unifying effect on a massive and still very linguistically diverse part of the world.

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All those 2,000 characters needed for fluency are created from 300 or so radicals that are about 70% of written Chinese when used by themselves. Plus most Chinese don't even write them with pen and paper anymore. Just type in the pinyin and the computer/phone helps you pick the character you mean.

8. That's part of what makes languages cool. When I go to the UK or watch BBC, I get 40% of the expressions, if that, and English is my native language! Yet I don't throw a tantrum and smash my phone.

3, 4, 5. Yeah, that's all true. If you want a business language for your CV, Spanish or French will give you access to more countries. It's not like you are going to forget your native language though. Just because you learn Chinese, Spanish, ect you won't forget English. Btw, companies pay big money for rare languages. Learn one, then find a company.

6. This is just racist/lingualist and I won't address it anymore than that. At best, it's a government policy prediction.

The biggest thing is that I'm disappointed. Instead of trying to shed something positive on a culture you went out of your way to show why it's not worth anyone's time. This while simultaneously perpetuating misinformation (e.g. people only use 10% of our brain) about the Chinese languages.

I wish you had made one on a language we should learn. I might have learned something new and cool.

rant over

Peace.

I've been working with many MNCs and climbing corporate ladder through out my career life without mandarin.

I've been successfully purchased goods from taobao, without knowing mandarin.

I've been to China few times too for work without mandarin being spoken.

So I'm good.

It has some interesting points though, especially the part where it dispels the myth that it is a "door opener", when in fact, it actually isn't.

How can learn anything can be time wasted?

Sitting there make himself drunk is time wasted.

From the ammount of butt hurt in this thread, i deduce that 80%++ of posters in this thread are DAP supporters.

yes. but from my projection of /k visitors which are mostly pakatan troopers, most likely 85%+ of the people will agree with the thread starter and talk about how important things is and about how english is superior, well covered, etc.

The argument in the thread is good. however, the author forgot that the moment you kutuk this language, DAP supporters will rage.