“Dialect” is the point of the meme. It critiques the China-balkanizers, who justify their ahistorical bullshit by saying that Beijingers and Shanghaiers have different accents and stuff
Most linguists are critical of the divide between language and dialect because no objective measurement can discriminate the two. The origin of this distinction is political
Those are not languages, though, those are dialects, and this happens in every country.
“Dialect” is the point of the meme. It critiques the China-balkanizers, who justify their ahistorical bullshit by saying that Beijingers and Shanghaiers have different accents and stuff
Most linguists are critical of the divide between language and dialect because no objective measurement can discriminate the two. The origin of this distinction is political