…I don’t see it as something negative
I actually like it.
It might sound weird to say that I like it when Chinese people don’t speak English, specially since my Chinese is not that good and our only way of communication is by sign. I feel like, by not speaking English, they don’t succumb to globalization and maintain their culture and their language alive… Chinese culture is incredibly rich, and I’d hate to see it ‘westernize’ due to the pressure of globalization.
One of the most precious places in China is Tibet, somewhere were little to nobody speaks English, and it’s the place I’d dare to say in whole Asia with the most vibrant, most cognizant culture and I’d love to see it stay that way.
Someone once said (In a discussion I once had) that the key to a better development is making the population bilingual, so that it will correlate more to the rest of the world.
Personally, I’d rather keep my culture and my language dynamic and vivacious than to trade it all in for a supposed development.
