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Increased use of Mandarin, however, obviously infringes of Chinese minority rights.
Edit: just to be clear, many Chinese dialects have a lower lexical similarity than European languages. The standardization of Mandarin in education has had impacts on these dialects as well.
If that happened in China or Russia, headlines would be: "cultural genocide"
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In Latvia the reason they are even having this discussion is because when USSR were occupiers they suppressed the local language (Latvian) with a brutal police regime, concentration camps, and the forced migration of ethnic Russians.
So yes - exactly. Moscovite Russia/ USSR started a cultural genocide in Latvia. This is just the fallout
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