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The best quality of Chinese is perhaps its use in poems, fuzzy, tangled, and primal to be exact. For other uses such as science and logic reasoning, little can be said about the capacity of Chinese as it never had a chance to be tested. One thing we know for sure, more from the consequence, that Chinese is a low level language for thinking and reasoning. We know from the human history, none great great philosopher or thinker came from the country using primitive languages.
This line of argument certainly ignites strong reactions from the people in these countries or culture origins whose languages are more a symbol of their national value and pride. But history has no emotion. It tells us what is good and bad, or what is superior and what is inferior, from the past.
The biggest irony is that those who spoke the loudest to express their love and affection toward their beloved culture heritage including language are those who are benefited the most from the "others". It not hard to imagine what a Chinese man would do today proudly in writing his Chinese characters using the computer invented by others and transmitted through the world wide web also invented by others. Oh, do not forget, they may be sitting right in the place in the "other" country which is certainly not their beloved China.
This picture we see is sad and contradictory, to say politely. Like the American Indians who blows his last horn at the sunset to say good-bye to his lost land, or like the last dinosaurs dying a slow death with ever colder air but still dreaming of its last meal at the lush green meadow, the dying culture is dying and can not be saved by someone's wish or love. It is dying, like the dinosaurs and the last Indians...
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