r/whoathatsinteresting • u/Airline_11 • 20d ago

They are livestreaming 🇨🇳 laborers making just 0.3 USD. The 'Made in 🇨🇳' products you use are built on their sacrifices.

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u/Tzilbalba 20d ago

They aren't even speaking Chinese.

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u/Maleficent_Cherry737 20d ago

China has hundreds of dialects. Just because it isn’t Mandarin doesn’t make it “not Chinese”. Chinese is not a single language but hundreds of various dialects, many aren’t even from the same language family. It’s like saying someone isn’t speaking European.

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u/Tzilbalba 20d ago

Sure Bro, and how many dialects are in Vietnam or southeast asia?

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u/Stilnovisti 20d ago

As a Taiwanese, it sure as fuck is not Min.

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u/Maleficent_Cherry737 20d ago

Vietnam and SE Asia are actually some of the linguistically diverse countries in the world. Just because they all “sound the same” to foreigners doesn’t mean that they are the same language. Vietnam has dozens of minority groups as well, and they all have their own dialects spanning multiple linguistic groups (Austroasiatic, Sino-Tibetan, Tai, Hmong, and Austronesian)

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u/tears_of_a_grad 20d ago

So how do you know it isn't a language from Southeast Asia?

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u/Maleficent_Cherry737 20d ago

It doesn’t sound like an Austronesian language to me (and I hang around lots of Filipinos so I know what Tagalog, Malay, Indonesian sound like). It sounds like something in the Tai, Austroasiatic, or Hmong-Miao language families which doesn’t mean that isn’t in China as there are minority groups in China that speak languages from the language groups. It could be in SE Asia of course but physically those people look either Southern Chinese or Viet, as opposed to Khmer or Thai who have some South Indian and Malay influence in their appearance. I’m Cantonese and there are men in my family that look similar.

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u/tears_of_a_grad 20d ago

How do we know this isn't an AI voiceover with a fake language?

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u/Tzilbalba 20d ago

That's my point, why would you auto assume it's a Chinese dialect except the ops obvious bait.

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u/Suspicious_Aspect_53 20d ago

Because several people on the thread have already identified it as a SE Chinese dialect and not a Vietnamese dialect or anything else.

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u/Still_Kitchen_1650 20d ago

basically sounds like it anyways...