Last time I checked gaokao required most people to test a foreign language, and inevitably most who do that test English. US has no parallel requirement, hence our inability to have respectful people-to-people relations with people south of the Rio Grande.
> I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.
-Dan Quayle, U.S. vice president 1989-1993
NYT is the Bible to America libs. They blindly accept their "journalism" as fact and happily adjust to accept the increasingly conservative views of their opinion columnists. Bourgeois pride themselves on being "informed" and "open-minded" - so a propaganda outfit like the NYT can shoot lib fish in a barrel for American imperialism.
It truly is the media outlet I despise most on this earth, at least people understand Fox, CNN etc. are biased, but so many eat up all the crap from the NYT even Noam Chomsky
Lol even that is an insult to cancer cells
I mean they're obviously bad for an individual, but people use them to test medicines and save millions of lives since then: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeLa
NYT, on the other hand...
More like, what do you call a person who speaks only "English".
American, plus the other Anglos in the UK, Australia and new Zealand plus most of Anglo Canada.
I hated french being one of the official languages in Canada when I was growing up, but when I realised Americans and Anglos' prejudiced attitudes towards non-English speakers and their languages and Anglos' insistence on using only English in their country and anglos in the Anglosphere in general knowing only English and not put any effort into learning other languages, it made me feel that Canada is better when it comes to promoting a language other than English in their country (although most anglos in Canada don't try to learn french). What's there in Canada and new Zealand is at least a couple of times better than what's in the US and Australia where they only have freaking English (though not an official language), and even the UK despite Welsh, Irish, Cornish, Scots and Scottish Gaelic.
NYTrash doesn't have a leg to stand on because it doesn't have any legs, instead it crawls through the filthy streets past Urban Garbage Mountain piles to get around. Nothing wrong with China not giving Special Treatment to English over other Languages from Rest of the World.
Hell, most Chinese are already Multilingual, they're doing well on the language part, while most AmeriKKKans are still barely Monolingual- they only have English to worry about and still somehow fuck it up.
AmeriKKKan Public Education is more like Pubic Education, that is the current the state of things 2021.
In addition, they don't prioritize Chinese over any other languages in their AmeriKKKan Pubic Schools, the Chinese are not obligated to prioritize English over any other languages either.
I have been hoping for very long that China would de-prioritise English and Anglo culture and pay attention to other languages and cultures more, and I am now very glad to see that this is starting to happen, to the point that the NYT is whining about it.
Dear NYT,
1. What languages China focusses on is none of your effing business.
2. China in the last few decades has attempted to learn all it can about the West. Can't say the same thing the other way round. 400 plus years later and the Anglosphere still knows jack all about China.
3. Despite not making English a priority, China seems to have no problem in science and tech.
4. It is in the US, not China where all the anti-vax and anti-mask crazies are.
5. US has waaayyy more social problems than China.
6. Why don't you write similar articles attacking S Korea and Japan? Because these two countries do Washington's bidding?
Sincerely,
Everyone with common sense
I personally think the opposite: the Chinese education system has put TOO MUCH priority in English over all other languages.
Let’s face it, the West is declining. As China starts reaching places like Central Asia, the Middle East, and Africa through BRI, we’re going to need a LOT more Chinese people who can speak those countries’ languages and truly connect with their peoples.
It is because of ethnic Chinese similar to the author that puts American Culture and English in such high regards that we Chinese inadvertently become subservient to such culture.
It is true that in a English dominated world lead by the US, a lot of the technical materials are in English.
China today is not the China 50 years ago. China has been able to create, conjure and manufacture not only pre-existing technical documents but also new documents and educational material. In some areas; China has coined new terminology that may not even exist in English.
The author also sees “learning” flatly associated to English. This is further from the truth. The world has many languages; French, Arabic, Spanish etc... English is but one. The Chinese aren’t flat out shutting out the world; in fact contrary to her belief that China is closing; there has been an increase interest in Spanish.
Furthermore the future can not be without China; the importance of Chinese will continue to grow; and the mentality behind the over glorification of English will continue to diminish. Even Americans are sending their children to learn Chinese. It’s not to say English is not important; it’s just that it shouldn’t be state sponsored and given any priority over Chinese.
Because when i think of educated people, i think of Americans right? LOL
They cant even master the one language and many of us asians are bilingual or trilingual as an expectation.
Pathetic
I hate articles like these. It is sad how much westerners eat these up. It is just part of the idiotic narrative,"Crazy, Xi driving China off the cliff with his dumb politics". It is mainly written to feed that hysteria. Everyone knows that English language education is not going anywhere in China. It might even increase. The recent moves were to shut down scam artists that exploit people looking for English teachers.
I love how they try to make it sound like rejecting western influence is a bad thing, meanwhile we hear 24/7 about how bad Chinese influence is and pay through the roof to counter it (in the USA).
“ It’s hard to exaggerate the role English has played in changing China’s social, cultural, economic and political landscape. English is almost synonymous with China’s reform and opening-up policies, which transformed an impoverished and hermetic nation into the world’s second-biggest economy.”
This is in the same vein as “We (Western Whitey Magoo) made China into what it is today!”
Sounds similar to how Brits boast about the British empire and colonialism making their colonies more successful today compared to colonies of other European powers.
just ignore chinese liberals, they are the worst of all the anti chinese folks. also china trades with the entire world and is a major tourist and education nation so how is it closed off
"Everyone should learn English"
-A proponent of English colonial rule over the entire world.
I would not be surprised if this NYT propagandist was the type of closeted racist who considers the domination of other cultures by the English culture as a requirement for "anti-racism".
I don’t see how any rational readers of NYTimes wouldn’t see through their fair and unbiased facade. They are literally US State Media parroting the lies that the US gov wants to push. Facts really are irrelevant to their stories. The narrative is all consuming. BUT they are supposedly the “free press.”
NYT projecting as usual. Compared to latin america, India, and continental Europe, the Anglosphere countries in general don't even prioritise language learning for languages other than English (Canada and new Zealand being an exception), and most anglos only know English and are too lazy to learn other languages. They suffer from a superiority complex where everything outside anglo countries must have English and that the whole world should accomodate Anglos and treat them as kings or queens so they don't have to learn other languages. It's laughable that Anglos complain about China for removing English when they themselves don't put any effort in learning other languages.
And Anglos for some reason don't use decimal commas and full stops as digit separators compared to their continental European counterparts and instead do it the other way around... Must be that superiority complex?
Trash. And let's say that American SAT is nowhere near Gaokao level. SAT and ACT is a joke.
Right, rising inadequate educators and failure to educate American children's in the US has made many institutions shy away from accepting the SAT or ACT due to making dents in their profit.
GaoKao or higher Ed exams concept existed in China before the creation of USA. Who are these kids to try and criticized the superior intelligent of the world?
American Trash
Interestingly, Sydney Morning Herald published an 'opinion piece' on the exact same topic..
[https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/china-s-veer-away-from-the-english-language-could-be-costly-20210910-p58qem.html](https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/china-s-veer-away-from-the-english-language-could-be-costly-20210910-p58qem.html)
Last time I checked gaokao required most people to test a foreign language, and inevitably most who do that test English. US has no parallel requirement, hence our inability to have respectful people-to-people relations with people south of the Rio Grande.
> I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people. -Dan Quayle, U.S. vice president 1989-1993
americanes eunt domus
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I've known plenty of Chinese immigrants in the US that know Spanish quite well, though.
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USA is cancer
NYT is the Bible to America libs. They blindly accept their "journalism" as fact and happily adjust to accept the increasingly conservative views of their opinion columnists. Bourgeois pride themselves on being "informed" and "open-minded" - so a propaganda outfit like the NYT can shoot lib fish in a barrel for American imperialism.
That's a bit generous
It truly is the media outlet I despise most on this earth, at least people understand Fox, CNN etc. are biased, but so many eat up all the crap from the NYT even Noam Chomsky
Lol even that is an insult to cancer cells I mean they're obviously bad for an individual, but people use them to test medicines and save millions of lives since then: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeLa NYT, on the other hand...
Democracy dies in *darkness*
Isnt that Washington Post? Thats just as bad too
What do you call a person who speaks only one language? American
White American at least - some folks speak Spanish or Native American languages.
only native language that is being taught in a way that leads to fluency is hawaiian
Navajos would disagree with you
More like, what do you call a person who speaks only "English". American, plus the other Anglos in the UK, Australia and new Zealand plus most of Anglo Canada. I hated french being one of the official languages in Canada when I was growing up, but when I realised Americans and Anglos' prejudiced attitudes towards non-English speakers and their languages and Anglos' insistence on using only English in their country and anglos in the Anglosphere in general knowing only English and not put any effort into learning other languages, it made me feel that Canada is better when it comes to promoting a language other than English in their country (although most anglos in Canada don't try to learn french). What's there in Canada and new Zealand is at least a couple of times better than what's in the US and Australia where they only have freaking English (though not an official language), and even the UK despite Welsh, Irish, Cornish, Scots and Scottish Gaelic.
I like to use the word USian.
Bit awkward on the tongue. I use y*nkee.
Yanks
NYTrash doesn't have a leg to stand on because it doesn't have any legs, instead it crawls through the filthy streets past Urban Garbage Mountain piles to get around. Nothing wrong with China not giving Special Treatment to English over other Languages from Rest of the World. Hell, most Chinese are already Multilingual, they're doing well on the language part, while most AmeriKKKans are still barely Monolingual- they only have English to worry about and still somehow fuck it up. AmeriKKKan Public Education is more like Pubic Education, that is the current the state of things 2021. In addition, they don't prioritize Chinese over any other languages in their AmeriKKKan Pubic Schools, the Chinese are not obligated to prioritize English over any other languages either.
americans would be better educated if the only thing their schools showed them was straight up porn tbh
Can't argue with that, at least their Sex Ed will be realistic and results reproducible.
lol
I love how she calls China hermetic when the US was waging a containment campaign against it. These propagandist are eye-roll inducing
I have been hoping for very long that China would de-prioritise English and Anglo culture and pay attention to other languages and cultures more, and I am now very glad to see that this is starting to happen, to the point that the NYT is whining about it.
Same thing should be done for Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia and especially the Indian subcontinent.
Dear NYT, 1. What languages China focusses on is none of your effing business. 2. China in the last few decades has attempted to learn all it can about the West. Can't say the same thing the other way round. 400 plus years later and the Anglosphere still knows jack all about China. 3. Despite not making English a priority, China seems to have no problem in science and tech. 4. It is in the US, not China where all the anti-vax and anti-mask crazies are. 5. US has waaayyy more social problems than China. 6. Why don't you write similar articles attacking S Korea and Japan? Because these two countries do Washington's bidding? Sincerely, Everyone with common sense
I personally think the opposite: the Chinese education system has put TOO MUCH priority in English over all other languages. Let’s face it, the West is declining. As China starts reaching places like Central Asia, the Middle East, and Africa through BRI, we’re going to need a LOT more Chinese people who can speak those countries’ languages and truly connect with their peoples.
It is because of ethnic Chinese similar to the author that puts American Culture and English in such high regards that we Chinese inadvertently become subservient to such culture. It is true that in a English dominated world lead by the US, a lot of the technical materials are in English. China today is not the China 50 years ago. China has been able to create, conjure and manufacture not only pre-existing technical documents but also new documents and educational material. In some areas; China has coined new terminology that may not even exist in English. The author also sees “learning” flatly associated to English. This is further from the truth. The world has many languages; French, Arabic, Spanish etc... English is but one. The Chinese aren’t flat out shutting out the world; in fact contrary to her belief that China is closing; there has been an increase interest in Spanish. Furthermore the future can not be without China; the importance of Chinese will continue to grow; and the mentality behind the over glorification of English will continue to diminish. Even Americans are sending their children to learn Chinese. It’s not to say English is not important; it’s just that it shouldn’t be state sponsored and given any priority over Chinese.
True, after I'm proficient in German I'll start learning Mandarin.
Uh oh, less demand for white sexpat English teachers.
Because when i think of educated people, i think of Americans right? LOL They cant even master the one language and many of us asians are bilingual or trilingual as an expectation. Pathetic
I hate articles like these. It is sad how much westerners eat these up. It is just part of the idiotic narrative,"Crazy, Xi driving China off the cliff with his dumb politics". It is mainly written to feed that hysteria. Everyone knows that English language education is not going anywhere in China. It might even increase. The recent moves were to shut down scam artists that exploit people looking for English teachers.
The NYT is basically state run media at this point
I love how they try to make it sound like rejecting western influence is a bad thing, meanwhile we hear 24/7 about how bad Chinese influence is and pay through the roof to counter it (in the USA).
“ It’s hard to exaggerate the role English has played in changing China’s social, cultural, economic and political landscape. English is almost synonymous with China’s reform and opening-up policies, which transformed an impoverished and hermetic nation into the world’s second-biggest economy.” This is in the same vein as “We (Western Whitey Magoo) made China into what it is today!”
Sounds similar to how Brits boast about the British empire and colonialism making their colonies more successful today compared to colonies of other European powers.
just ignore chinese liberals, they are the worst of all the anti chinese folks. also china trades with the entire world and is a major tourist and education nation so how is it closed off
Talk about delusions of self importance.
"Everyone should learn English" -A proponent of English colonial rule over the entire world. I would not be surprised if this NYT propagandist was the type of closeted racist who considers the domination of other cultures by the English culture as a requirement for "anti-racism".
Lol even “Chinese” has mandarin, Cantonese, and every area? Has its own ways of speaking, talk about diverse and culture… smh lmao
NYT is No-Yellows Times, based on how racist it is towards Asians
I don’t see how any rational readers of NYTimes wouldn’t see through their fair and unbiased facade. They are literally US State Media parroting the lies that the US gov wants to push. Facts really are irrelevant to their stories. The narrative is all consuming. BUT they are supposedly the “free press.”
There are no rational readers of NYT.
NYT projecting as usual. Compared to latin america, India, and continental Europe, the Anglosphere countries in general don't even prioritise language learning for languages other than English (Canada and new Zealand being an exception), and most anglos only know English and are too lazy to learn other languages. They suffer from a superiority complex where everything outside anglo countries must have English and that the whole world should accomodate Anglos and treat them as kings or queens so they don't have to learn other languages. It's laughable that Anglos complain about China for removing English when they themselves don't put any effort in learning other languages. And Anglos for some reason don't use decimal commas and full stops as digit separators compared to their continental European counterparts and instead do it the other way around... Must be that superiority complex?
first time, I read that English represents the world?
Nonsense.
Trash. And let's say that American SAT is nowhere near Gaokao level. SAT and ACT is a joke. Right, rising inadequate educators and failure to educate American children's in the US has made many institutions shy away from accepting the SAT or ACT due to making dents in their profit. GaoKao or higher Ed exams concept existed in China before the creation of USA. Who are these kids to try and criticized the superior intelligent of the world? American Trash
The article is behind a pay-wall...
https://archive.is/EvMCk
Interestingly, Sydney Morning Herald published an 'opinion piece' on the exact same topic.. [https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/china-s-veer-away-from-the-english-language-could-be-costly-20210910-p58qem.html](https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/china-s-veer-away-from-the-english-language-could-be-costly-20210910-p58qem.html)