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Q: alternate timelime-UK school needs Chinese Teacher(native speakers only !)
let's say in a alternate timeline or alternate Universe.
1600 : First Chinese ship arrived in London demanding trading rights
UK with its outdated weapon and army didn't stand a chance and accepted all term unconditionally
1605: First Chinese Trade Post in London
1650: First Anglo-China War.England defeated.
1700: First Treaty of Paris:Unconditional trade access given to Chinese in all France
1800: First Kungfu War (China Vs Eng+France),
1805: Treaty of Green Tea-Chinese victorious got access to more western lands
1850: Chinese colony stretched in UK,France,Germany.Japan colonized Northern Europe,Vietnam colonized Ireland
Southern Europe under Indian occupation,Korea controls Sicily,Malta
1900 World War -1 Japan,India,Vietnam Vs China,Korea
1910 World -1 ended-treaty of Shanghai-All Japanese colonies ceases
.......
Fast Froward
2014: UK is madly searching for CSL teachers to teach Chinese.European student has only one dream,join Beijing Shanghai University
Latest Headline:China has landed first panda in Mars...
How would you feel living in such alternate Universe...dominated by Chinese language,values and believes.
What would that world look like.
You'd be eating noodles, rice and slop. Take the current scenario here and amplify it 20 times or more, you get the picture.
Did you read "The Man in The High Castle" by Philip K. Dick ? It describes what would be the 60's (or was it the 70's), given that Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan won WWII, USA is split into between both. Some form of cold war is going on.
I would be speaking Chinese as 2nd language, working in the Federation of Central Africa, where's the real deal is happening, while the old empire of China is starting to crumble, slowly. I would grumble about those Europeans who can't reform themselves, who can't look at themselves honestly for 1 minute, feeling every damn city with an Euro-town full of sweatshop and illegal migrants, etc.
Do you think in this alternate Universe-
1)Anybody who doesn't look Chinese will be treated as second grade citizen
(your look and blood will decide whether you a "Chinese Citizen" or "a poor subject"
2)non-Chinese ideas,habits,thoughts will be gradually eliminated from the face of earth
3)Chinese will gradually outbreed others and by end of 21st century,world is 90% Chinese and rest of us reduced to minority
4)All will be 'forced' to adopt Chinese believes and life-style
5)Non-Chinese will never be treated equal in a Chinese World
6)The entire world gradually become "a Bigger China"...
7)Essentially,all non-Chinese looking people will either disappear and will be reduced
to "sample minority population"..culturally,linguistically,demographically...
or it will be the opposite..any thought!
DrMonkey:
By putting your "if" 400 years ago, anything is possible, it's up to your imagination. What if Lord Babbage finished his mechanical computer ? What if Roman empire did not crumble ? What if the Dogger Banks were still there ?
Englteachted:
Just because you turn the tables does not mean others would become as racist and ignorant as the Chinese are now.
Do you have an agenda with this?
Is it a commentary on the perceived pervasiveness of "Western" culture and standards?
Are you a Chinese apologist?
In this situation, do we also presume that most migration has happened towards China? And that China gladly opened its doors to those immigrants and let them assimilate?
Did China colonise the Americas?
Did they take Confusicanism and Taosim to the new lands?
If we really want to consider this, and it is a valid argument*, then we have to ask these questions! I suspect that China would be vastly different! Certainly no CCP (or, perhaps, it took over a century or more ago..).
*it's valid, cos they had gunpowder! If they had bothered to learn it's most powerful use, then it's quite possible this scenario could have come to being!
Am I supposed to feel sorry for chinese people? Your scenario neglects one basic fact. This did happen to many of us... really, I am black. And you know what. .. I don't give a rats ass. The past is the past , accept it and live your life.
There are many variables missing from your scenario.
Is my country a pathetic 3 inch mentality country? Does my country teaches a made up version of history? Does my country teaches it's people to hate everyone who is not my ethnicity? Does my country try to bully it's peaceful neighbors? Does
crimochina:
Let me finish my point. The bottom line is this. The problems that china has today can only be blamed on themselves (ccp and mao specifically). Look at hk and look at Taiwan.
Shining_brow:
Am I supposed to feel sorry for chinese people? No, not really.
Is my country a pathetic 3 inch mentality country? Ummm, yeah.
Does my country teaches a made up version of history? Definitely! (coming cleaner cos people are getting louder about the bad stuff, but yes)
Does my country teaches it's people to hate everyone who is not my ethnicity? Afghanistan... need I say more?
Does my country try to bully it's peaceful neighbors? Only for the last half-century... or more.
When everyone outside of China looks back on the history of the world, they say all the war , colonization and slavery are bad and should not have happened. Those who did the wrongs apologize and they work together to make sure it doesn't happen again.
But when Chinese people look back on the history of the world they say, "it should have been us enslaving the world, everyone should feel sorry for China because China did not dominate the world."
And you wonder why China has no friends.
Can you imagine everyone being made to shat and piss on the floor, in buses, planes and trains. Oh wait those inventions would never exist.
What about England's great leap forward and cultural revolution?
ScotsAlan:
We had the Highland clearances in Scotland.
People put off the land because sheep were worth more.
Ireland had the potato famine.
mike168229:
"Englands great leap forward"??? Since when was anything labelled that?
@Alan,yep the clearances were a shitty time but, they weren't in the 1950's and 60's.
In this alternate reality females would be aborted because chinese men prefer boys. And incest and rape would not be punishable.
I don't think advert should specify 'Chinese Native speaker'! There're too many of them.





















