Idea behind Choice

After reading a news about the rich wife, Ms Yeo Peck Leng in Hong Kong trying to establish a new school for her children, I am shocked by her choice of teaching materials. She picked simplified Chinese because she want to align the choice of institutions around the world. They picked simplified Chinese and Putonghua only because it is official language of mainland China which has fast-growing economic power and it is also an official language of United Nations. They treat language as a tool only. They would not care about the linguistic defects and separation of cultural identity.




The rich wife should prefer the children to learn traditional Chinese in order to understand the original Chinese culture, beauty of Chinese characters, the formation of Chinese characters, and to develop cultural identity. It is because Cantonese is one of mother languages in her family.




If she can state the idea of utilitarianism, she just makes not a very bad choice. In fact, unfortunately, she just follows without proper thinking.