Comment on What if the USA decided to use another language as its *de facto* national language at it's founding? How would it affect the world?

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• DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Problem is that it:

  1. lacks the amount of colonization as British empire had
  2. Mandarin-media is so boring. They’d never get widespread like Hollywood stuff. I used to watch them as a kid, but then I just realized they’re repeating the same cliches too often… It’s basically just half anti-japan stuff and half set in imperial China, never anything exciting.

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  • mrdown@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Science and business are the biggest contribution to language adoption

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  • nylo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    what about Wolf Warrior 2 tho

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    • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Lmao, skimmed the plot and it sound so wild.

      Maybe I’ll look for a torrent.

      Bizzare plots are kinda fun sometimes.

      Like… it doesn’t sound like a “good” movie, per se, more like one of those “silly” movies imo, similar to “Olympus has fallen” or “Moonfall”, if you know what I mean. Sometimes these silly movies are kinda fun to watch, like ridiculous movie action is always funny.

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      • nylo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        yeah I heard it mentioned in passing in a video essay and looked it up to see it was the highest grossing domestic movie in China when it was released, definitely on my watchlist now

        doesn’t sound like an arthouse masterpiece but fun action schlock I agree lol

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