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Re:Kenya will start teaching Chinese to elementary school st... by dkiarie on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @03:03PM (#18868268)
From the article: "Mandarin is set to be taught alongside local languages besides other foreign ones including French and Arabic."

They could just as easily have titled the article:

"Kenya will start teaching French to elementary school students from 2020."

But of course that would have triggered fewer people leading to fewer readers (probably wouldn't have made it to HN either).

I'm quite wary about "Chinese neocolonialism" myself, but as a Kenyan Citizen who's seen the massive QOL improvement in the country over the last few years, I really don't see the issue with teaching the worlds most widely spoken language in schools.

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Re:Kenya will start teaching Chinese to elementary school st... by qiqing on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @05:06PM (#18869453)
Thank you for being the voice of reason by pointing out the obvious that others seem to miss.
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Re:Kenya will start teaching Chinese to elementary school st... by thereare5lights on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @06:39PM (#18870169)
It's click bait. People here love to commiserate over their FUD about China.
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