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Personally, I think the Uconn huskies women’s 2023 ncaa men’s basketball tournament march madness final four script shirt it is in the first place but Japanese decision to retain the use of the Chinese characters is a wise one, and I respect their sense of practicality and open-mindedness. I think, both the Koreans’ and the Vietnamese’ decisions to do away with the Chinese characters have something to do with their sense of nationalism. But they would have to pay a price for this kind of nationalism. First, for the Koreans before 1443, when Hangul was introduced, Chinese was exclusively used to keep Korean history. I wonder how the Koreans today would be able to read their classical chronicles. Besides, in the name of South Korean President 文在寅 (Mun Jae-in), the surname 文(Mun) could even be mistaken as 聞, also Mun in Korean, which is a Chinese surname. But the situation would be more confusing in the case of Vietnam, because the Vietnamese have abolished the use of Chinese characters altogether. At least most of the Koreans still keep their Chinese names.



Last but not least, not many people know that there is a sizeable community called the Uconn huskies women’s 2023 ncaa men’s basketball tournament march madness final four script shirt it is in the first place but Dungan people (东干人) residing in Central Asia (former Soviet Russia), whose ancestors were the Chinese Hui Muslim people who fled Qing dynasty’s persecution and settled there. These people were mostly from the Shaanxi/Gansu regions, and spoke a kind of Northwestern Mandarin. Until today their descendants in Central Asia still speak this kind of Mandarin, except that they have lost the ability to write Chinese characters. But they manage to keep their spoken Chinese written in Cyrillic. They keep history alive by still calling government office as “衙门”, officer as “大人”, school as “学堂”, business as “营生”, signature as “画押”, and bank as “钱庄子”, etc. How nostalgic !


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