Some points is quite true especially the mandarin language part. Its act as officially language during ching dynasty but most southerners didnt give shits.
Mother tongue that time more important,  like hainanese , fujien and so on coz majority of them cant even read.

Example my grandparents from Hainan, never said a single mandarin word in their lifetime.

Saya sangat suka bila cina sama cina gaduh.

Marvelous.

His father/mother/grandparents must have worked very hard to get where they are currently in

So the initial chinese language was what...? Esp during shi shuang thi

Dafuq scroll till my thumb putus

Lol.. no Mandarin is not Manchurian’s language.. certain words from Manchurian might have been assimilated into Mandarin ..  Mandarin has been in use since few dynasties before..

Why so butthurt?

Cannot take the good points and constructive argument/discussion from there?

Focus on a few inaccuracies and go to town tell author crawl back to whichever hole he came from.

He didn't say we chinese today want to go back china. He said our forefathers and ancestors. Today, the story is more complex, history is not the simple straightforward story we want it to be.

It's become something else, and while he puts forward the opinion that the grievance and misplaced loyalty should no longer be the main factor in keeping vernacular schools (which is good, imo), the jibe about quality is not strong.

This is a self-reflective piece, educative in its big picture narrative, and it is of course sending the message, i am willing to be self reflective, are you willing to be self reflective too?

Shame or not is one thing but I dunno why only Chinese or mostly Chinese all over the world (except Chinese from China) like to use Christian names ... I think Thai, Korean, Indian, Japanese, Vietnamese names are equally hard to pronounce (some, not all)... but who cares... if u r important enough.. people have to learn to pronounce ..

Ya. Internal matter, which begs the question why he wrote in english to the 9% banana. Or if its to the bigger 20% that he claims only know Chinese, and doesn't know anything else.

Shud write in chinese and send to one of the dailies to stir an internal 20% shitstorm.

I disagree on everything except the language and clothing. We are han Chinese should speak our native dialect first and second BM/BI and lastly is the invaders dialect mandarin. By speaking mandarin first you are a disgrace to your ancestors. Those who go around undermining their native dialect is an eyesore and their ancestors must be rolling in their graves.

So far when I converse with others in their native dialect, they never mention they are China people (chung kok yan) , they always call themselves or others as tang people(Tong yan) or some call themselves han people. We only refer prc as China people.

Same to those who go around telling others to wear the Northern invader's clothing.

regarding dialect, i am not much worry about the extinction of my own, as i am canton decedent, and most of the time i deal with HK and Nanhai region people in business and meetings.
I don't think it will go extinct.