“Mandarin”

Ok.

even more unfortunate, the scientist in this blog is overwhelmed by the burden of his cultural / political orientation by not taking steps off to assess the issue from a more objective standpoint. – inodoro ni emilie

Which i suppose also explains his tendency to argue things that are not at even at issue as if they were revealed truth (aka ignoratio elenchi).

which in a way, jon, is rather unfortunate, because the issue of medium of instruction in school has become a sociopolitical more than a pedagogical issue. and those in the position to implement them are not even in education! worse, the deped is not thinking of a scientific way to resolve the issue!

even more unfortunate, the scientist in this blog is overwhelmed by the burden of his cultural/political orientation by not taking steps off to assess the issue from a more objective standpoint.

may tama ka! proficiency is not equal to head count. if it were so, that would put us ahead of u.k.!

“But did that study say what kind of Chinese was being referred to? Fookien, Mandarin, etc.?”

mandarin.

I read RC’s views at face-value, regardless of whether it was original or not or whether he got it from some anti-American / pro-communist group in the United States.

As long as we live in a society with a basically colonial mentality, there will always be activists, leftists and similar-minded individuals ready to challenge the status quo.

That mantra that you were taught with didn’t exactly say that we were proficient.

But did that study say what kind of Chinese was being referred to? Fookien, Mandarin, etc.?

DJB,

Your claim of 20 million native Cebuanos is interesting. Are you using ethnologue’s numbers or another source that unfortunately is using ethnologue as a basis?

Gabriela,

Your argument of how much time a blogger spends on any response can be hurled back to any one on any side of the fence.

We all have our own thoughts I guess on what is best, but it is those who are in position to implement changes that can actually effect changes. Even those who petitioned the courts against the use of English as medium of instruction remains as mere petitioners. At least they did something out of and because of their stand. Those who strongly feels for something else need to act on them too.

So the art of aboriginal australians, their history and their language are inferior to that of the west or chna or india or arabia or any of your so-called civilized cultures?

I thik you conflate dominance with superiority. You need not cite Rizal. Imelda would have been more concise – “Some are marter than others.”

No DJB, art, history and language are all equal. One is not superior to another. And when an outsider judges, it shows his prejudice.

Use another line of argument lest we fall into the White or Yellow or Arab Man’s Burden bullshit again.

The only good argument for you is to say- we have to do it because that’s where the money is. Someday, if some other language dominates and that’s where the money else, then we abandon eglish for that language.
That’s what we did with Spanish, that’s what we need to do with english.

Just cut the crap about superiority. Once upon a time, during Rizal’s heydey, Spain ruled and Spanish was the superior language. When the Romans ruled, Latin was superior.

Empires come and go so do the dominance and “superiority” of languages.