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speaking chinese in indonesia...^_^


rita_w

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I remember when I went to Indonesia. I had been living in Malaysia for about 6th months, and was very impressed that almost every Chinese in Penang spoke Mandarin. Thus, wanting to see how things were on the other side of the Strait, I went to Medan. While only a 45 minuet flight, the Chinese cultures were vastly different. I was sad to see few signs of Chinese architecture, and what I did see was dilapidated. More over, few Chinese could speak Mandarin. MAny spoke Hakka and Hokkien, but I remeber going to a temple, and asking, in my broken Indonesian

 

"Di sini ada orang yang bisa bicara bahasa mandarin". Or, does anyone here speak Mandarin.
 

They helped me look and finally we found one old many who spoke a little. He gave me  a tour. Still, it was sad to see how in only 50 years or so, how oppressive government structure can change so much about a culture.

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