I can't comprehend this concept at all
Don't worry, Americans are at very low risk of ever learning a second language. Many are able to avoid literacy altogether.
Wow they must be completely immune to propaganda
Man recent stuff makes me want to learn Chinese. But honestly if I'm going to fight my disability uphill like this I should learn Spanish since it would benefit my community more. I honestly need to work on it soon.
The entire world learning English and being exposed to American media exports, however, is entirely politically neutral 
Iraqis to US military: "You guys are much nicer in the movies"
What level of bougie do you have to be on to think tennis skills are more useful than learning a second language?
White boy SHOCKS barista by speaking in perfect tennis
Thank you for this, I'm now imagining a guy moving his mouth and all you hear is a ball getting struck by a racket
"What would you like to order sir?"
"UGGH...tuck...AAH...tuck...UGGH...tuck...AAH"
美帝的狗
I really need to get back to practicing my Chinese audiobook.
I'm not teaching my kids chinese because my line is dying with me 
Knowing Chinese hasn't stopped any of the Falun Gong cultists nor their kids from being in an anti-Chinese cult. This man really just hates himself and his people.
Chinese immigrant children should be cleansed of their rotten mother tongue and subhuman culture to become part of der ubermensch
Yellow-scare-flavored version of “kill the Indian, save the man.”
"Kill the Indian, save the man" but this time it's about Chinese people.
This is literally Orwellian. He's proposing controlling language to control thought so his kids don't go wrong ideologically
But it's okay because that's what the evil ccp is doing. Why are they evil? Doing stuff like this, of course! 
Our glorious ideologically deviation-proof managed democracy, their barbaric authoritarian controlled mob rule
If they learn to read traditional Chinese, they'll be able to read simplified Chinese and vice versa.
Fake news 
Joke's on you buddy, I learned English through absorbing American and western-propagandized media and I turned into a first-world hating scold who speaks English with an American accent. Sounds like you don't believe yourself or your children to be capable of the same . Skill issue if you ask me.
i literally want to teach my kids chinese so they can (a) have a leg up in their future careers (b) drink from the unfiltered hose of scientific and dialectic materialism.
can't drink out the hose anymore, cause of anti-woke
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⚠️Trade Offer ⚠️
I receive: Chinese-speaking population diminished by 1/1,400,000,000
You receive: AI bootcamp
Do we have a deal?
This is just the LinkedIn class' version of taking your kids out of school 'cos you don't want them doing all that ungodly book learnin'.
Doesn't really matter. What these losers fail to understand about their AI revolution is that one of the strongest things AI actually does successfully is translation.
AI translation is going to reach a point where it can just be applied to everything automatically and completely break down all language barriers, at that point the most successful parts of the internet will be whatever is the most competitive. I personally believe that will eventually be Chinese media.
We're not quite there yet but you can already see youtube doing it with auto-dub on videos. As this technology progresses it's going to reach a point where it is near-perfect and online language barriers will disappear.
Chinese will be controlling algorithms whether you learn Chinese or not when that happens.
As someone formally learning Chinese, I'm starting to suspect that nothing can ever be a 'perfect' translator.
AI is definitely good at it, and you can usually get across like 95% of the meaning. But there are so many turns of phrase in every language, with no analogy in other languages, that have nuanced meanings, with historical, cultural, and modern contexts, that takes at least many minutes to fully explain, if not hours.
Even just word order also has unspoken implications that, again, there's just no way to easily translate.
"He's talking about a specific breed of dog and because of the shared radicals it's jokingly and partially implied (but plausibly deniably not) that they're talking about confident walking but there's a double meaning that also means eating fish" is the kind of explanation you might need for like, 4 words of a foreign language. So unless you do the hard work and.. learn all the phrases and word orders and context (at which point you've basically just learned the language), I don't think any practical translation can 100% break down language barriers.
Still, maybe 95% is enough for social media to merge and whatever, I don't know.
Bruh your kids will be too dumb to learn a 2nd language anyway
Okay, take all of that nonsense (I'm not reading it all), and now switch it to English and use American propaganda for why, and everyone will be like "Ugh, conspiracist much?!"
The massive Chinese overseas influence network of hexbear dot net
Ni hao!
the brain smoothness on display is breathtaking
Wild to see someone so all in on empire and structuralism at the same time.
Reading Snow Crash and deciding the message is 'there's magic Asian words on the computer'
I agree with the first paragraph but think that's why we should all try yo learn at least a bit of other languages
I would say it's a solid reason why you should ensure your kids DON'T learn English
I posted a whole rant about how English is the evil language last night in the old mega
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