As someone who is not Chinese (tho did grow up with the culture in my family), I’ve decided to open up this topic on the sub since it does have a controversial connotation and it’s a community-specific policy that is still practiced today. I may have my own outside opinions on the matter, but I’m curious to dig deeper to learn more about it’s influence, general thoughts of if it’s an ideal move/not ideal or “could’ve been done better” kinda thing, or maybe some personal anecdotes would be interesting (my Chinese side of the family have intermixed in with my Malay side for generations alr so they have always just stuck with Malay, though I’m aware that for some Chinese families it would be harder to communicate with previous gens since they speak dialect.)
Also, would pose the secondary question that if it would’ve been possible that mandarin would naturally overshadow the use of dialects eventually anyway? Since many of the dialects that were formed were formed based on isolation and the existence of Chinese communes working independently from each other. Mandarin started picking stem as the standardized language when the ideal of the central chinese nation state started to manifest at the turn of the 20th century, as a response to imperialism.
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r/singapore As someone who is not Chinese (tho did grow up with the culture in my family), I’ve decided to open up this topic on the sub since it does have a controversial connotation and it’s a community-specific policy that is still practiced today. I may have my own outside opinions on the matter, but I’m curious to dig deeper to learn more about it’s influence, general thoughts of if it’s an ideal move/not ideal or “could’ve been done better” kinda thing, or maybe some personal anecdotes would be interesting (my Chinese side of the family have intermixed in with my Malay side for generations alr so they have always just stuck with Malay, though I’m aware that for some Chinese families it would be harder to communicate with previous gens since they speak dialect.) Also, would pose the secondary question that if it would’ve been possible that mandarin would naturally overshadow the use of dialects eventually anyway? Since many of the dialects that were formed were formed based on isolation and the existence of Chinese communes working independently from each other. Mandarin started picking stem as the standardized language when the ideal of the central chinese nation state started to manifest at the turn of the 20th century, as a response to imperialism. submitted by /u/GuyinBedok [link] [comments]
As someone who is not Chinese (tho did grow up with the culture in my family), I’ve decided to open up this topic on the sub since it does have a controversial connotation and it’s a community-specific policy that is still practiced today. I may have my own outside opinions on the matter, but I’m curious to dig deeper to learn more about it’s influence, general thoughts of if it’s an ideal move/not ideal or “could’ve been done better” kinda thing, or maybe some personal anecdotes would be interesting (my Chinese side of the family have intermixed in with my Malay side for generations alr so they have always just stuck with Malay, though I’m aware that for some Chinese families it would be harder to communicate with previous gens since they speak dialect.)
Also, would pose the secondary question that if it would’ve been possible that mandarin would naturally overshadow the use of dialects eventually anyway? Since many of the dialects that were formed were formed based on isolation and the existence of Chinese communes working independently from each other. Mandarin started picking stem as the standardized language when the ideal of the central chinese nation state started to manifest at the turn of the 20th century, as a response to imperialism.
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