[Campaigns-l] Languages

[YYK H]

> 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.
While the general characterization is right, I just want to clarify a
few things.  The political system quite different between mainland
China and Hong Kong because HK was an ex-UK-colony.  Communist Party
does not exist in HK... but the CCP do have full control over the
political system in HK.  Also, the CCP has became much smarter in the
sense that they don't control purely by force or oppression but
through various methods such as economic incentive through policy
change.

> The pictorial languages of China vary but the present government has made
> the written language fairly standard.
It's standard for Mainland China but hardly standard for Taiwan or
most Chinese outside of mainland.  For further detail on the whole
language deal, please check out "Debate on traditional and simplified
Chinese characters" here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Chinese_character

Kenny
>
> 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> wrote:
> > On 8/3/06, Chad Lupkes <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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