Tiananmen Square 1989 death toll was at least 10,000 according to UK documents

And it's a huge joke now in China (at least the fact that you're not supposed to mention it.)

Is it really? Would like to know more about what current generations think.

What I find most illuminating is how the current generation’s thoughts are so dramatically different than the Chinese-American’s whose parents left/escaped

In the states we have alot of Cantonese speaking people with a disdain for the party and the outcome, masquarading their opinion and obsolete language as relevant and other Americans treat it as canonical

My experience with mainlanders is complacency and contentment with the expected role of government, who have no idea why some people focus on an old uprising as if nothing else happened in 30 years

Not supposed to be a popular opinion but thats what Ive observed

> obsolete language

Huh?

>> obsolete language

>Huh?

This is an oversimplification, but basically Cantonese is the main language in Hong Kong and Macau and in parts of southern China (Guangdong) that border whereas other parts of China use Mandarin.

You can probably work out why someone who speaks Mandarin would call Cantonese a "dead language" in a thread about Tiananmen Square.

Oh, I understood exactly what he was getting at. I was hoping he would use the opportunity to apologize, but hey, internet.