• nekandroOP
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    4 months ago

    Increased use of Mandarin, however, obviously infringes of Chinese minority rights.

    Edit: just to be clear, many Chinese dialects have a lower lexical similarity than European languages. The standardization of Mandarin in education has had impacts on these dialects as well.

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      What do you mean by “use”? Here the whole debable was about pre-school from what I understand. Russian is still studied as a language in primary school, let alone spoken home etc.

      Also Latvian and Russian are quite different languages, although not so different as for example Estonian and Russian (where BTW similar measures in educations have been passed).

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    4 months ago

    If that happened in China or Russia, headlines would be: “cultural genocide”

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      Correct.

      In Latvia the reason they are even having this discussion is because when USSR were occupiers they suppressed the local language (Latvian) with a brutal police regime, concentration camps, and the forced migration of ethnic Russians.

      So yes - exactly. Moscovite Russia/ USSR started a cultural genocide in Latvia. This is just the fallout

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      4 months ago

      Well, they build camps and aim rifles at people they’re “educating” so maybe that’s why?

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        3 months ago

        Compare how many Tibetans speak Tibetan with how many natives in US speak their languages (or Welsh, Irish, Scots, Bretonians, Sorbians etc etc etc wherever applicable) before you start to run your western supremacist nonsense.