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Re:Many Chinese suffer discrimination based on their regiona... by yorwba on Thursday April 11, 2019 @02:31PM (#19637672)
> I was somewhat bullied as a young kid in Shanghai because I couldn't speak Shanghainese that well.

Do you think the importance of Shanghainese has changed since then? When I was there, the only people I heard speak Shanghainese looked to be 40 or older, younger people seemed to exclusively use Mandarin.

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Re:Many Chinese suffer discrimination based on their regiona... by Cookingboy on Thursday April 11, 2019 @02:36PM (#19637737)
Oh definitely, even kids who are just 5-10 years younger than I am are now mostly using Mandarin only, and many of them are no longer super fluent in Shanghainese.

Basically I think kids born before 1995 were the last batch of people growing up learning fluent Shanghainese.

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