i have no doubt that the niche players can do well in hong kong speaking only in cantonese
but even such niche players would do better in hong kong if he also can operate in mandarin and english
the issue is that the hong kong public school system is mandated to instruct in cantonese and in certain cases, cantonese and english
the international schools (including 'local' international school) instructs in mandarin and english and whatever home languages
iow, the swedish kids in erita's school / classes speak better mandarin than a local kid attending local school and know math, sciences, etc in mandarin and english
it would be okay as a parental choice to have their kids be instructed cantonese, but if there is no choice due to unaffordable private schooling, then something may not be right, especially when public funding is used to propagate what essentially is a regional dialect of questionable applicability to what the kids need against other kids.
now the kids do street disruption partly because they see what is ahead of them ... grim reality of competition and carnage, for which they are not equipped well. they wish to correct their deficiencies by the exercise of localised voting. guess what they would be voting for, under the circumstances?
hong kong was built on the basis of open-city, and given our resource-free state, hong kong must remain open, not only to non-china but to china mainland, else hong kong shall sink into irrelevancy and slip into backwater.
besides, hong kong was built on rule-of-law, and the rule of law must triumph else we are lost.
protest, by all means, and send a message, across all frequencies; but
then get back to studies, work and toil, and save, learn more, educate, invest, etc etc |
