Qn for chinese ppl: Should dialects be preserved? 
Jan 18 2020, 01:46 AM
QUOTE(AscMenhe @ Jan 18 2020, 12:56 AM)
As a native hokkien and cantonese speaker, I feel that speaking dialect to family members feels closer and more friendly than speaking mandarin
Yes, people are mostly comfortable speaking in their native tongue. China Chinese would feel friendly speaking in Mandarin. This is a bias we can't avoid. QUOTE(AscMenhe @ Jan 18 2020, 12:56 AM)
However, now that transportation and media is so good, a common language ie: Mandarin seems to have replaced any need for dialects
Do you think dialects should be preserved? Do they deserve to be preserved? Or should we be like Qin Shi Huang eliminating different scripts in favour of unifying?
Brexit? Separation in Spain? HK protest? Taiwan independence? XinJiang??? We are in world where ppl want to be different, individualist... they only need 1 common language to get their message across. Other than that, they want to be different from you.
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