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[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Now let's compare changes in poverty, population, and growth statistics for Russians in Latvia, versus Uyghurs in China. Oh, oh no...

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