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Chevalier

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So what do you guys think of this?


My opinion is that I agree with this. Having a decent proficiency in English to pursue higher education is already a necessity for a lot of universities across the world (and/or working in English-speaking countries), so why not for Chinese?

The thing is - You are going to study and/or work in China, not the UK, US, Australia or Canada. What can you even do in China without being able to understand and utilize Chinese on a daily basis, at the very least?

Besides, Chinese is one of the 6 official langauges of the UN - The status and prestige of the Chinese language needs to be lifted even higher on the international stage than it is at present. Furthermore, with the steadily increasing Chinese soft power across the Global South, the Chinese langauge should aim to become one of the lingua francas of the world too.
It’s good for westerners to learn to speak Chinese as the Africans and rest of Asia does, not simply because it’s now the language of trade and international diplomacy but also because it will humble them enough to appreciate Chinese language, culture and ways of thinking. The behaviour of certain European countries is due to a lack of respect and appreciation of China for eg Lithuania and learning Chinese will alleviate incessant navel gazing ethnonationalism.

How often do you encounter an American or French who refuses to speak another language because they expect others to learn theirs? I find that Europeans who speak three languages (high tends to be the majority) tend to exhibit more acceptance of other cultures and less racism. Exception being the sexpat who only bothers to learn the sex chapter of The Lonely Planet Series and nothing else.
 

Chevalier

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Someone tell these Jai Hinds that Japanese porn no more reflects reality than Bollywood movies.
Apparently, Indian men use these festivities as excuses to grope, molest and rape western and foreign females- there's footage on twitter of groups of indian men using the paint to feel up foreign women and their coward cuck husbands are helpless to do anything.
Indians in the West like to group themselves with high achieving east asians when nothing of this sort of sexual predator behavious is apparent to this level of frequency.
 

pevade

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So what do you guys think of this?


My opinion is that I agree with this. Having a decent proficiency in English to pursue higher education is already a necessity for a lot of universities across the world (and/or working in English-speaking countries), so why not for Chinese?

The thing is - You are going to study and/or work in China, not in the UK, US, Australia or Canada. What can you even do in China without being able to understand and utilize Chinese on a daily basis, at the very least?

Besides, Chinese is one of the 6 official langauges of the UN - The status and prestige of the Chinese language needs to be lifted even higher on the international stage than it is at present. Furthermore, with the steadily increasing Chinese soft power across the Global South, its prime time that the Chinese language become one of the lingua francas of the world too.
I thought China already had the HSK exam?
 
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