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It appears it’s mostly the language, interaction with various services and institutions, and skills necessary to get a job.


What language? If they have their own language, wouldn't there be plenty of jobs where they can just use their own language?


Are you pretending not to see how a language outside your tribe opens up more opportunities. The entire tribes of Africa and South America underwent the same massive foreign language reeducation now being demonized


No, I just want to understand. What opportunities exactly?


Plenty of nineteenth-century type jobs. Anything modern - anything that actually improves their standards of living - requires the ability to read and write Chinese.




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