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ciainchina.bsky.social @ciainchina.bsky.social

Spoke to two other Miao people who also can’t speak their native language. One was a woman in her 40s, the other a young man in his early 20s who couldn’t even tell me how to say ‘hello’. “My parents didn’t teach me.” I asked “Don’t you learn it at school?”, knowing the answer ofc, and he said no.

aug 28, 2025, 3:48 pm • 3 0

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Michael Vokabre @vokabre.bsky.social

This was a dynamic in USSR that ensured that my family too was not speaking neither Yiddish nor Hebrew. The latter was even forbidden.

aug 28, 2025, 4:12 pm • 1 0 • view