How did speaking Shanghai dialect become an uncivilized embodiment?

Recently, Shanghainese have suddenly become targets. A foreigner from Shanghai said that speaking Shanghainese in Pudong is an uncivilized and backward performance? Caused an uproar. Even the Shanghai natives, who don't like arguing at ordinary times, began to express their dissatisfaction.

Actually, in Guangzhou, many people speak Cantonese. In Fuzhou, many locals speak Fuzhou dialect, but I have never heard foreigners say that locals say that local dialect is uncivilized. Only in Shanghai, there has always been such a remark that Mandarin should be suppressed to Shanghai dialect.

What's more interesting is that many Shanghai locals are not worried about whether they can speak Mandarin, but that many Shanghai children even don't speak Shanghainese at all after 1990s, but only listen. For many cultural people in Shanghai, this is a very distressing and embarrassing thing. Many people think that not being able to speak Shanghainese will be the beginning of the disappearance of local culture in Shanghai.

Of course, due to geographical and cultural differences, Shanghainese's reputation in other parts of the country is not very good. Many non-Shanghainese are dissatisfied with Shanghainese. On the surface, it means that Shanghainese are proud of looking down on outsiders. In fact, if we look at other places, didn't Cantonese just exclude foreigners? Even in the 1980s, Hong Kong looked down on mainlanders, and it seems that Shanghai was not "scolded" by the people of the whole country.

In the final analysis, Shanghainese are "hated" or regarded as "different" by people in neighboring provinces and cities, and cultural differences are the fundamental reason. Shanghai's Shanghai culture has its own historical glory, pride, living customs, ways of doing things and ways of speaking. It is too different from other regions headed by "Beijing School". A once small place, a once backward seaside town, became the first city in the Far East within several decades under the artillery fire of western powers, which made many China people feel very embarrassed.

To some extent, the same is true of Hong Kong, a small place managed by the British. It developed rapidly after 1960s, and now it has become a world financial center and a developed region. At the same time, in Shanghai under the jurisdiction of our own people, by the 1980 s, the economy had fallen far behind the small Hong Kong that even Shanghainese looked down upon.

I talked to some friends in China about this problem, and they also secretly sighed. I'm also glad to see their reaction. In fact, the places colonized and managed by the British are very good, but then again, India, which has been controlled by the British for a long time, may not really be so developed. After all, whether a city or a region can develop is not the only decisive factor.

Everyone's life has unpleasant times, such as work and life. These are the fundamental reasons for igniting the nameless fire in your heart. Especially for people in backward areas or at the bottom of society, this kind of heartfelt anger needs a place to vent. Therefore, those who look "different" are easily targeted, especially when their self-confidence is poor, and they will find fault with each other in terms of "colony" and "dialect". In 1950s and 1960s, Shanghainese spoke English, which was also called "treason".

In the past 1929 -33 during the Great Depression, many Germans lost their jobs and had a hard life. When Hitler was a citizen, it was said that he tried to find a job several times, but he was "robbed" of his job by local German Jews. As a result, he was very angry. Once he became a force, he led the grass-roots anger to the Jews. Grassroots Germans could not vent their anger because of the defeat in World War I, reparations and the difficulties of the Great Depression. Hitler gave them hope and gave them an outlet. Everything since then has become a well-known history.

At last, Shanghainese didn't fall into the position of Nazi German Jews, but the embarrassing situation that Shanghainese became "rats crossing the street" in other provinces and cities in China was similar to that of Jews.

Although the scenery of Shanghai now is far from the glorious position of old Shanghai before liberation. But Shanghai used to be so beautiful, Shanghainese were too carried away, Shanghainese were too arrogant, and Shanghainese looked down on outsiders. In the final analysis, it is because Shanghai is too developed. Even in the 1970s, Shanghai's management performance was higher than other regions. After liberation, Shenzhen opened its first stock market, and Shanghai also had its own stock market after a while. Now everyone knows which stock market is the boss and which city financial talents are most willing to go.

Why did things develop so proudly in Shanghai? Why does Shanghai always have such a sense of superiority? This makes many people in other parts of the country feel incomprehensible, and some people feel particularly dissatisfied. Even foreigners who work in Shanghai, even if they get a Shanghai hukou again, should "gnash their teeth" and scold Shanghainese from time to time. There are many reasons, but I still can't say clearly. Just like today, we can't understand why Israel, a small Jew, is so powerful, but a small country can deal with so many powerful enemies around it. Everything that happens to them can attract the attention of the world.

It is said that Shanghai girls are too realistic to get married unless they have a house, a loan and a car. It seems that this is the "smelly beauty" of Shanghai girls. In fact, you go to Beijing and other places to ask, do local girls have requirements? Beijing girl's request will never be the object of national condemnation, but Shanghai girl will be the object of being scolded.

In the TV series Desire, which describes the life of Beijingers, the biggest villain is named "Wang", which has caused controversy in many newspapers. Shanghai people's habit of eating with small bowls and saucers has also become the material of the Spring Festival Evening sketch.

Interestingly, all over the country, even in Beijing and other places, the bowls for eating have become smaller, and the material requirements of girls are similar. Shanghai petty bourgeoisie thought and lifestyle reviled by the people all over the country have now become a commendatory term and a national fashion vane.

Shanghai may be giving up Shanghainese, but its culture will not disappear. In fact, how can Shanghai dialect be considered authentic? No one can answer. Today's so-called Shanghainese is also a dialect complex in Zhejiang, Jiangsu and other places, and there are some Cantonese and English elements in Shanghainese.

Thus, Shanghai dialect has never been static. Shanghainese speak Mandarin, which only shows that Shanghainese are going to the whole country again. Shanghainese speak different languages, which proves that Shanghainese have begun to go global again.

Shanghai dialect and Chinese in other areas will change with time. But the local culture will also change.

As for whether not speaking Shanghainese represents civilization, as a Shanghainese, you can listen to it as a joke. This foreigner who published "Speaking Shanghainese is uncivilized" and took root in Shanghai, his own future descendants, may be the pioneers of the new Shanghainese. At that time, his descendants would say to him one day, "What you said is too old-fashioned and uncivilized." Smile.