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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-24-05 09:58 PM Original message |
If China is our enemy, why are 1st graders learning CHINESE? |
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tuvor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-24-05 10:00 PM Original message |
How many with Chinese ancestry live in the USA? |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-24-05 10:03 PM Response to Original message |
3. For Canada, at least from the last time I took their online exam, they |
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CanuckAmok (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-24-05 11:40 PM Response to Original message |
14. there are more Mandarin and Cantonese speaking people in... |
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WilliamPitt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-24-05 10:00 PM Response to Original message |
1. Same reason they were offering Russian when I was a kid |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-24-05 10:03 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Mine only offered French, Spanish, German... 1986. |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-24-05 10:21 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. I took Russian in college |
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Taxloss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-24-05 11:01 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. That's Kerr Avon, hero of the resistance against the evil Federation. |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-05 02:56 PM Response to Reply #8 |
22. Thanks! |
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havocmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-24-05 10:15 PM Response to Original message |
4. There are no nations anymore. |
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gordianot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-24-05 10:35 PM Response to Original message |
6. Communist Corporatism |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-24-05 10:35 PM Response to Original message |
7. We learn foreign languages for many reasons |
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brokensymmetry (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-24-05 11:16 PM Response to Original message |
9. Our elites think China is our best friend...but... |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-24-05 11:19 PM Response to Original message |
10. Slave labor indeed! |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-24-05 11:32 PM Response to Original message |
11. When I was in high school, we were told that we ought to learn Russian |
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walldude (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-24-05 11:36 PM Response to Original message |
12. So they will all be ready to work at Wal-Mart |
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Tim4319 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-24-05 11:39 PM Response to Original message |
13. Why does China hold our mortgage? |
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obxhead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-24-05 11:42 PM Response to Original message |
15. Slave labor in America would be more expensive than |
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Davis_X_Machina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-05 12:39 AM Response to Original message |
16. One rarely sees a post... |
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cornermouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-05 05:18 AM Response to Original message |
17. Because we plan to lose. |
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Freedomfried (684 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-05 05:21 AM Response to Original message |
18. Its the language for sucess in the future. |
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rman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-05 05:47 AM Response to Original message |
19. We won't be working for "the Chinese" as such, |
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Thom Little (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-05 06:05 AM Response to Original message |
20. No language is an enemy. Only people are. |
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ErisFiveFingers (354 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-05 06:13 AM Response to Original message |
21. The enemy is not a language. n/t |
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cire4 (580 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-05 04:30 PM Response to Original message |
23. Ummm...Chinese does have the most native speakers in the world |
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