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Little tadpole said:
Give people back their history, stop hiding the real history, stop lying....
Response:
All human beings should know their original biological parents (250,000 to 500,000 years ago) --- we're all descendants from black people from Africa. So now you know that, does that change the way you look at things?
India is a country similar to China. The most popular Indian language there is Hindi but there is resistance to making Hindi the "mandarin" of India especially in the southern parts such as Tamil Nadu, etc., English is therefore the lingua franca in all parts of India - North and South. Perhaps China should follow suit....
Why learn Mandarin when English is the official language and lingua franca in the west, India and China!?!!!
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Take a look at Seediq Bale: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ka6PeFqMts
This film is starting to shoot next month. When this movie is finished, you will start to see hundreds, and I mean hundreds copy-cat movies being made in China, and you will see how She 畲, Zhuang 壯, Miao 苗 ethnic groups will all come to life. China has a richness of thousands of ethnic stories to tell. And then, and only then, will people wake up and question themselves: so, this was how our roots looked like!
Learn to treasure cultural diversity.
Everyone is descendant of fish. That has been my position all along, if you check www.pkucn.com, that's been my consistent message. I don't just stop at Eastern Africa. Understand that, and maybe you will learn to reduce your hate and treat everyone as family. (把大家都当成鱼的后代，纠纷会少点儿) No matter whether you are yellow, white, black, green or purple, we are on this planet together.
http://www.pkucn.com/viewthread.php?tid=243474&page=1#pid1218571389
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Why don't they speak English instead?
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Seediq Bale pre-production trailer with English subtitle:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS8Ojljcy7A
This film is being made in Taiwan, but I am sure hundreds of Chinese movies will follow. This is the kind of China that you never knew.
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"Everyone is descendant of fish"
Based on the character 鱼, I see that you must have learned Chinese in China, not Taiwan or in the US.
I don't like to eat many types of fish...but I don't think it's because I'm afraid of being a cannibal.
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鱼=鱼 (or fish in the PRC way of writing it.) This is the simplified character for fish, not the one used by Japanese people or people from Taiwan. I don't know what they use in HK.
What kinds of characters do they use in HK? Simplified or traditional?
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Believe it or not, a minority of Chinese intellectuals do propose to widen significantly the usage of English. Throughout the years, I have seen the number of these intellectuals grow, slowly but steadily.
To tell you the truth, the Chinese government has two rich jewels in their hands, but they don't even know it. If they had internationalized the universities in Urumqi and Lhasa, thousands of international students would have flooded these two places, and more over, they would have stayed to work, live, and raise their families in China, adding to the richness of the Chinese society. You can't achieve the same thing easily in Beijing or Shanghai, where foreigners come and go, but usually don't stay.
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At least May 4th movement was interested in benefitting Chinese people, as can be seen from your comments, you have other motives. We're all descendants of bacteria and microbes ultimately. Next time you have a throat infection, don't take antibiotics. Just die naturally; otherwise you might be killing one of your ancestors.
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K. T. (not a fish): "What kinds of characters do they use in HK? Simplified or traditional?"
Traditional characters in HK, just like in Taiwan. However, Singapore uses simplified characters.
Each locale uses slightly different character set and rendition. Chinese characters in Mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Korea, Japan and Vietnam all have subtle differences, even just for the traditional characters. There is the Ideographic Rapporteur Group (IRG: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideographic_Rapporteur_Group) that holds regular meetings to resolve issues on Chinese characters in this computer era.
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c'est vrai que tu m'as dit ? quelle est la taille de ta bite ?
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I don't know if "everyone is a descendant of fish"
but I know that a tadpole is definitely not a fish and a fish is definitely not a tadpole.
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Thank-you for your comments on the characters, Little tadpole. Good to know.
As to the mini-discussion as to whether we are all descendents of fish-I've never seen any credible evidence for that.
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That should be "descendants"...
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It's just a provocative way to make people think. It's along the same theme as "We are all children of God": it's not there for people to discuss whether you agree with the statement or not. It's just to remind people that, instead of hate, give each other love. That's all.
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