The suppression of things of minority status there is breathtaking. I have never heard of any governors and party chiefs of the ethnic minority autonomous regions have bothered to learn the languages of the locals.
In view of that, the Hapsburg dynasty was positively enlighten, whose monarchs took it seriously to learn some, if not all of the native tongues of its many ethnic subjects, be it Czech, Hungarian or Serbian.
Almost one hundred years after the last Hapsburg monarch, couldn't people have done better?
最近，在粵語地區，人們紛紛抗議中國政府的計劃来推行越來越多的普通話廣播或只用普通話。
在那里对拥有少數地位的東西的壓制是驚人。我從來沒有聽說過任何少數民族自治區的省長和黨委书记，麻烦他们自己来學習本地人的語言。
和這一情況相比，哈布斯堡王朝是極为开明的，他們的君主们非常認真地學習一些(如果不是全部)多種族属民的母語，無論是捷克语，匈牙利语或和塞爾維亞语。
从最後哈布斯堡王朝的君主至今将近一百年过去了，人們是不是可以做得更好些？
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