How to evaluate 70 local-born teenagers in Suzhou who cannot speak Suzhou dialect?

The stigmatization of dialects during the promotion process. In terms of publicity, as a post-90s generation, when I was in elementary school, I often saw slogans posted in schools: Please speak Mandarin and learn to be civilized people.

In terms of measures, at the same time, moral education points will be deducted for speaking dialects in school, which is the same punishment as spitting and littering. Over time, a strange cultural atmosphere formed in the minds of teenagers:

Speaking Wu dialect is uncivilized behavior, dialects are "vulgar", and speaking dialects is rustic and rude behavior.

The teenagers in the Wu dialect area have no idea about the hometown dialect they hear. First, they don’t know what Wu dialect is. Second, they don’t know that the hometown dialect is Wu dialect. Third, they don’t know that most of the dialects in the Wu dialect area can be spoken. Interoperable. This is why the Cantonese-speaking area and the Hokkien-speaking area also have the problem of different pronunciations, but Cantonese and Hokkien are still the preferred communication media for meeting fellow villagers. This kind of friendly experience will be understood by those who understand it. Hong Kong and Taiwan have been strong cultural export centers for the Chinese cultural circle for a long time, and they have been the targets of the country's united front, so the stigmatization of Cantonese and Hokkien has not succeeded. Wu language has no united front value. In a cultural context where culture serves politics and cultural development is dominated by administrative power, Wu culture has no right to speak. Therefore, for languages ??other than Mandarin, which is based on the dialect of Luanping County, Hebei, if you are said to be uncivilized, you are not civilized. This can be seen from previous Spring Festival Galas. Not to mention the dialect, the Mandarin accent of the southern provinces is also the target of ridicule in various language programs. Children in the Northeast can speak Northeastern dialect in school, children in Beijing can speak Beijing dialect in school, and children in Sichuan can speak Sichuan dialect in school, but children in Wu-speaking areas can speak Wu dialect in school? Sorry, you are uncivilized. At present, Cantonese and Hokkien can still maintain their vitality, while Wu dialect is about to die out. Language is the carrier of culture. The long history of Wu language carries the long-standing Wu culture and is an important branch of Chinese culture. Wu dialect is a dialect of China, just like Chinese is a dialect of the world.

I don’t think anyone would want to launch a “British-promoting campaign” to make Chinese extinct just because they want to follow the trend and facilitate communication. Just because some people cannot see the value of Wu Yu does not mean that Wu Yu has no value. The Mandarin area thinks Cantonese is the language of birds, and the upper class in Taipei laughs at Hokkien as a sweet potato accent. It doesn’t necessarily mean that other people’s dialects are rubbish. Just as Americans do not understand the beauty of "It is suspected that the Milky Way sets in the sky", "The solitary smoke is straight in the desert, and the sun sets in the long river", and "A river of spring water flows eastward", Tang poetry, Song lyrics, and Ming and Qing novels are of no value in the eyes of Germans. It means that Chinese has no value. The so-called "in order to promote exchanges and follow the trend, it should be extinct" and "Wu dialect is worthless and deserves to be extinct". People who believe in this kind of double-standard social Darwinism are usually people who believe in "the theory that traditional Chinese medicine is useless" and "the theory that classical Chinese is dregs" , during the Cultural Revolution, those who shouted to destroy the Four Olds were also this kind of people. Ignorance is not terrible; what is terrible is ignorance. As for the theory of "natural demise", let me remind you that at the beginning, it was advocated that Wu should be destroyed by any means, but no one said that it would "die out naturally". If I stab you with a knife until you are almost alive, and wait until you die of excessive blood loss, will it be considered your "natural death"?