 Wysłany: Sob 6:11, 16 Kwi 2011 Temat postu: Learning Mandarin – Western Awareness of China |
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| If you muse of what China really is, it is a very strange notion namely we westerners were not extra aware of China a long period ago. China is the fourth largest country by place, and ever since the largest along population. The aggregate pate calculate of entire Chinese people comes apt above 1.2 billion, that’s more than 1200 million, alternatively 12.000% bigger than my family nation Sweden. The worth is equitable also big apt make sense of. If entire Chinese people were apt line up approximately the equator and prop hands, the line would extend something favor 28 times around the earth. When growing up I accustom to adore to peruse the CIA World Fact Book. It gave actually cool truths in a language that I could know even for a kid. Like Sweden is roughly the size of California. Denmark is the size of The State of New York. If CIA would attempt to put Chinas population in terms of a relating teaming in The United States, they would find it difficult. Chinas population is roughly equal to the combined population of Canada, The United States, All of The European Union, Norway, Switzerland and Russia. That is, in other words, 2 whole continents, and all of northern Asia. There are a lot of Chinese people. If you calculate almost it like that, China is not really a country; it is not even enough to call it a quite large country. China is really a very large continent in its own right. If there were a sea among China and the repose of Asia the Chinese Continent would be the worlds second maximum populous. There really are a lot of people in China.
The reason that this very large and very old (by fewest 4000 years, some paperbacks put it by 5000) country managed to escape, largely, beneath the radar of popular western awareness during the last century was of course that China did not ambition anything to do with the west and the west did not ambition anything to do with China. Wars tend to bring that out in civilizations. The American sponsored citizen army that was defeated by the communists in the Chinese civilian battle in the thirties and forties of the final centenary was not a agreeable start for western rning Mandarin is appropriate more and more popular with each passing year. It is hard to imagine it today but western amuse in China and Mandarin is a very fashionable development. In 2010 the Chinese administration estimated that 100 million aliens were actively pursuing proficiency, 20 years ago that figure would have been a lot closer to 0. The cause as the sharp addition in amuse is of lesson the matching growth in the relative magnitude of China’s economic, its diplomatic stature and western awareness of China. |
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