Should Chinese be Taught in Pakistan?

[whocares]

its not a smart idea in my opinion. there maybe a need to train more translators etc, but teaching everyone chinese just amounts to declaring oneself as a client state.

there is nothing common between pakistani and chinese culture at all. the alliance is only due to a common enemy

 

[Awais Akram.]

I want to know what fellow Pakistanis think about the Sinitic languages being taught in Pakistani schools? I think that the public and private schools should adopt this language requirement. The benefits could be tremendous :

Economic benefits : enhanced trade and interaction between both nations, business 2 business relationship grows, product selection and consumer awareness will grow as well. Both nations can also bring other nations in a special tariff free economic alliance that will allow Pakistani products to flow into outside markets.
Diplomatic benefits : Chinese Pakistani alliance would gain much strength as this would bring both nations closer, it would also serve as a hedge against other powers in the region and abroad. A dual citizenship/preferred status could be introduced for citizens of China and Pakistan, and this sort of regional alliance could be extended to interested nations.
Cultural benefits : Interactions between people would bring new ideas and customs that each nation would adopt, learning a new language would improve quality of education and offer students the opportunity to live and work in China.

Yes this would be great if pakistani privite schools will start teaching these languages this will certenly help all the options you mentioned

 

[True_Pakistan_Zindabad]

its not a smart idea in my opinion. there maybe a need to train more translators etc, but teaching everyone chinese just amounts to declaring oneself as a client state.

there is nothing common between pakistani and chinese culture at all. the alliance is only due to a common enemy

You raise interesting points but in Pakistan anything is possible, just because it hasn't happened before in history doesn't mean that China and Pakistan can't make great strides in familiarizing with each other, militarily we already have commandos speaking Mandarin. But exploiting this alliance and calling it a client state relationship is unnecessary. Pakistan does not push Chinese policies or vice versa. If there is a common enemy must mean there is a common problem.

 

[Materialistic]

We are here not talking about learning Alphabets, its easy to write "I want to learn Chinese" but its as hard to learn as easy is it to write that sentence.

We people get carried away so easy by emotions, no doubt we should have more and more people to people contact and cultural promotion within both our countries but Chinese are the largest non-native english speaking population in the world. So we can interact with them in english but yeah knowledge of basic level Chinese with usual daily life sentences would be well and enough which will create basics for people to learn this language further when required.

Also, adding foreign will have a huge impact on our already diminishing culture, we should promote our regional languages otherwise in a time of 5 decades our regional languages would go instinct!!

And to do that we don't need books, because the best way to promote is the way China & India does it and thats by injecting heritage, culture and their own traditions through entertainment, we badly need a film industry to save our culture.

And by saying this Im not referring to movies with a chocolaty Hero, vanilla Heroin & with an extra toping of villain.

 

[True_Pakistan_Zindabad]

Keeping our culture will be easy for us in Pakistan I have no doubt even regionally the languages are safe only on a national scale they may seem diminished and unrepresented. However I think the adoption of Chinese is not only strategic but it will open up Pakistan and benefit the average person as well as our institutions through collaborative projects in every scope, not just fighter jets. Through research and advanced academia we can further our nation.

 

[whocares]

You raise interesting points but in Pakistan anything is possible, just because it hasn't happened before in history doesn't mean that China and Pakistan can't make great strides in familiarizing with each other, militarily we already have commandos speaking Mandarin. But exploiting this alliance and calling it a client state relationship is unnecessary. Pakistan does not push Chinese policies or vice versa. If there is a common enemy must mean there is a common problem.

i didn't call pak a client state. i am just saying that such a step amounts to acting like a client state. that all.

strained relations between neighbours is a common thing.
india and pakistan are equally 'problematic' to each other, though admittedly we have inflicted greater psychological trauma onto you whereas you've really only been a nuisance to us.

china - india relations aren't very strained and even the 62 war was only a nationalistic frenzy whipped up by Mao to keep himself in power.

 

[True_Pakistan_Zindabad]

i didn't call pak a client state. i am just saying that such a step amounts to acting like a client state. that all.

strained relations between neighbours is a common thing.
india and pakistan are equally 'problematic' to each other, though admittedly we have inflicted greater psychological trauma onto you whereas you've really only been a nuisance to us.

china - india relations aren't very strained and even the 62 war was only a nationalistic frenzy whipped up by Mao to keep himself in power.

Such a step might, if we adopted Chinese as the official language AND had a Chinese crafted and dictated list of policies. I am at this point just advocating that Chinese be introduced in public and private schools to younger students and to government and scientific institutions.

I didn't understand your trauma nonsense.

 

[Old School]

I started learning spoken Mandarin ( Chinese) in the early 90's and now my spoken skill is not bad. The grammar is pretty straight forward in Mandarin where the verbs are used as only infinitive. For an average Pakistani , the pronunciation will not be a big deal to master. However, writing Mandarin is a different story where thousands of characters need to be learned as Mandarin does not have alphabets.

 

[whocares]

Such a step might, if we adopted Chinese as the official language AND had a Chinese crafted and dictated list of policies. I am at this point just advocating that Chinese be introduced in public and private schools to younger students and to government and scientific institutions.

I didn't understand your trauma nonsense.

fair enough. i do hope that the chinese don't start using Pak for their ends the way the americans did.

the trauma "non sense" isn't anything too great but just the fact that perceived wrongs such as kashmir and 1971 are just very hard for you to erase from memory. pakistan, for all its efforts, hasn't managed to do anything remotely near as denting to the indian national psyche.

 

[alibaz]

We are already teaching Urdu, English, Arabic and Persian in our schools, shall we add another language in our syllabus? I think it would be confusing. It may be learnt at college level as an elective subject and may be promoted as well. We have failed in adopting Urdu as official language in true spirit and are thinking about chinese.Lets stick to English and Urdu.

 

[ChinaChina]

its not a smart idea in my opinion. there maybe a need to train more translators etc, but teaching everyone chinese just amounts to declaring oneself as a client state.

there is nothing common between pakistani and chinese culture at all. the alliance is only due to a common enemy

if teaching every one chinese is declaring oneselfe as a client state what you saying is india is a client state of the british?

master and slave mentallity of the indian at its best

 

[Old School]

Not only the language but also I enjoy Chinese music and cuisine.

 

[SpArK]

Its better to learn chinese for Pakistani people as it increases people to people contact.

We have lots of Russian/French learning institutes here and even a cultural center near my home city.

Learning Chinese and Chinese culture itself is an experience of its own.

But i am not sure how much openminded are people to observe and learn new things.

 

[whocares]

if teaching every one chinese is declaring oneselfe as a client state what you saying is india is a client state of the british?

master and slave mentallity of the indian at its best

lol. we were a colony of the british, not even a client. they sank english fairly deep into us. Is the US a client state of the british too. your intelligence knows no bounds

 

[whocares]

Not only the language but also I enjoy Chinese music and cuisine.

chinese music? don't the chinese all learn western classical music?
we got classical music of our own and its good are you talking about their folk music then?