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wannabeafreak -



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10 million guest workers make up the dominant population of Shenzhen, the only city in Guangdong,
in which speaking Putonghua is not discriminated. Although the residents more or less speak
Cantonese to a varying degree of fluency. As mentioned above, you more likely get people speak
Mandarin to you in the street scene.

Could you expand on the discrimination part? Is Mandarin looked down upon in Guangdong?



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huisheng -

It's not the language itself, but the users that is discriminated. Rooted in the locals'
mentality, whoever speaks Mandarin got to be a guest worker (外来劳工) coming to the province
for low skilled jobs. Obviously Shenzhen is the only city where Waishengren (外省人) can make
it big in politics and business, hence the respect for the use of the language. That's my
understanding. I could be wrong.










LaVandez -

From my brief time in Shenzhen I woud say that it's Guandonghua - Putonghua - Sichuanhua for
business. Sichuanhua is not so surprising once you realize that many came and are still coming for
the work. At least this is among the business people that I know. Most of the old guard are in
international trade or Hong Kong expats, Putonghua gets you up on the new schoolers, Sichuanhua on
a good portion of the workforce and some midle managers who are originally from places within
Sichuan.












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