Chinese Boarding Schools and the Indoctrination of a Generation
foreignaffairs.com
Nearly a million Tibetan children live in state-run residential schools on the Tibetan plateau. Chinese authorities subject these children to a highly politicized curriculum designed to strip them of their mother tongue, sever their ties to their religion and culture, and methodically replace their Tibetan identity with a Chinese one. Children as young as four have been separated from their parents and enrolled in boarding kindergartens under a recruitment strategy based largely on coercion.
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"teach them Chinese because they live in china"
Chinese isn't a language
Oh, let's just go and force all Indians to speak Hindi, I'm sure the entire south of the country would be okay with giving up their mother tongues for Hindi.
This "one language, one country" thing is deranged white thought
This is in China dude.
Lots of countries have one or more official languages. What's different is the purpose. Most sane countries define one to facilitate clear communication and transactions. China's forcing this to extinguish a culture.
Also "deranged white thought" is a pretty racist take when the flag bearing "white guy" countries of the United States and the UK both do not have an official language while most of the rest of the world generally does.
Ok mandarin then. Would you it is not useful to understand the majority language of the country in which you live. That it is not good for the country itself to be more cohesive?