[Campaigns-l] Languages

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The elections in Hong Kong and China and for that matter in many countries  
around the world are not even close to that in the US. Each country has its own 
 game. Even in the US, Americans did not understand the electoral college, 
and  how the person with the most citizen votes might not be elected President.
 
In China and Hong Kong the Communist Party selects all candidates. Not all  
citizens vote in fact only a very few. The Communist Party makes up about 2 and 
 1/2 of the actual population of China.
 
The pictorial languages of China vary but the present government has made  
the written language fairly standard.
 
In a message dated 8/2/2006 7:52:53 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
chadlupkes at gmail.com writes:

On 8/2/06, Janet Hawtin <_lucychili at gmail.com_ (mailto:lucychili at gmail.com) > 
wrote:  
On  8/3/06, Chad Lupkes <_chadlupkes at gmail.com_ (mailto:chadlupkes at gmail.com) 
>  wrote:
> 
> The details of the Chinese language diversity I  didn't know, so this is 
good
> information.
>
> Would the  Hong Kong site be in a different language than Chinese, or are 
you
>  asking for a regional specific version?  My understanding is that  we're 
> trying not to create regional sites, only language  based.  Hong Kong
> elections are welcome in English on the  main site,

aye theres the rub.

and if we need a  Chinese
> language Campaigns site then let's get one  started.  But I'd rather not 
see 
> regions break off from  the main site.  This needs to be a global movement,

you  want a global movement with english as the main site?

> and I'm  almost as interested in Hong Kong elections as I am in Seattle 
>  races, which is where I live.  We're all in this  together.
>
>
> Chad



 
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