Note: 24 Races in India!

[longbow]

Does Beijing impose Mandarin as the common language or is it a case of Imperial China forcing all conquered subjects to speak in Mandarin.

Does Beijing ban the use of ethnic language?

India operates a coalition govt unlike Communist Party in China, thus people cannot be threatened to abandon their mother tongue or there will be separatist movement emerging.

 

[kunkin]

India is a joke. He forgot to mention that an Indian from 1 state cannot understand another from another state, they end up speaking English, and that's assuming the guy has been to school before

In China there is only 1 official language, Standard Mandarin. Almost everyone can understand it to a certain extent

With all the so called unity.. same language ..same culture in china.. China was not able to make a big impact on the world scene until recently.. why is it ???

 

[Char_Azn]

Does Beijing impose Mandarin as the common language or is it a case of Imperial China forcing all conquered subjects to speak in Mandarin.

Does Beijing ban the use of ethnic language?

India operates a coalition govt unlike Communist Party in China, thus people cannot be threatened to abandon their mother tongue or there will be separatist movement emerging.

The answer to your first statement is Yes and No.

Beijing actively promotes the use of standard Mandarin and it is the official language of the country. Unlike in India where they tried but failed miserably and everyone end up speaking English in the end, in China, just about everyone should be able to understand Chinese since its taught in Schools.

As for Imperial China, As far as I know the Qing tried to implement Mandarin across the board but was not very successful but ultimately still use Mandarin for all official matters. PRC and ROC had better luck implementing it to the masses

On the 2nd question, as far as I know, Beijing doesn't ban or discourage the use of dialects locally, however all official matters are done in Mandarin. If you ever have the change to work in China, mostly the southern provinces(changes are in Shanghai), there is frequent use of local dialects in office when communicating with one another.

And dun believe in BS from the All-Mighty-U-Know-Who about mandarin being forced on the populace due to communism. He pull that out of his ass. Taiwan isn't a communist country but it also actively promoted mandarin, even more so then China

On the other hand in Taiwan, the government had a policy of promoting Standard Mandarin over the local languages, such as Taiwanese and Hakka. This policy was implemented rigidly when Standard Mandarin was the only language of instruction in schools, while English was offered as the compulsory second language. Since late 1990s, other languages have also been offered as a second language.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_spoken_languages#Political_issues

And to U-know-who, yes, I realize I'm totally out of point

 

[Char_Azn]

With all the so called unity.. same language ..same culture in china.. China was not able to make a big impact on the world scene until recently.. why is it ???

Wah liew, that one not very co-rrelated lah.

North Korea is the currently the most homogeneous nation on earth, totally same culture, same language, same type of food, totally same education, same type of clothes and even worship the same guy. Look at where they are now.

And the most advance nation in the world, the US have lots of different races, with different culture different langauage and very not united.

 

[Char_Azn]

Just got another good example of how messy the place is.

Just got off the phone with my Hyderabad Office colleague. Apparently there is a strike there. Hyderabad is the capital city of Andhra Pradesh. The state is divided into 3 areas 1.Telangana 2.Costa 3.Rayalaseema. Telangana consists of 9 districts. The Telangana people are asking for seperate state. And they are having major strikes becoz of this.

KNN whats the freaking different. Every freaking politician is just as corrupte in India, the difference between getting your own state or not is just who U are paying that bribe to!!!!

 

[papbestmum]

Joking! India is so big, nothing is the same in different places, not even the food.

 

[Liquigas]

24 Races in India!

Broadly speaking and in racial and linguistic terms, there are two peoples in India - the Aryans in the North and Dravidians in the South. In everyday life, however and putting all these aside, there actually are only two peoples - the haves and the havenots ....

 

[po2wq]

Note: 24 Races in India! ...

r dey held @ nite or during ze day? ...

 

[zuoom]

Re: 24 Races in India!

Broadly speaking and in racial and linguistic terms, there are two peoples in India - the Aryans in the North and Dravidians in the South. In everyday life, however and putting all these aside, there actually are only two peoples - the haves and the havenots ....

was thinking along that line more than anything else too.

 

[Ramseth]

Re: 24 Races in India!

First, the situation in India should not be confused with China. Civilisations in both regions were founded >5,000 years ago, that's true and common. There's where the simililarity ends and the differences begin. China was united as one country one people one language >2,000 years ago. There was no such thing as an Indian nation until 1947. Even before British colonisation of the subcontinent as British India, there was no such thing; it was just a collection of kingdoms and fiefdoms of different races and languages, more different than China was during the era of warring states prior to imperial unification. Interesting, the same can be said of the Dutch East Indies, now known as Indonesia. Since when there's such a race Indonesian? Indonesia means islands around or near India(n Ocean), and India is a corruption of Hindustan.