Indeed, most Mongolian children are exposed to Mandarin on a daily basis through TV and daily life, while Mongolian has largely fallen by the wayside.
Beijing has claimed that the new language policy’s goal is to advance bilingual education. Activists have painted a different picture, arguing that China intends to erase the cultures of ethnic minority groups across Inner Mongolia and throughout Chinese satellite states.
China’s plan is expected to take effect by 2022, where Inner Mongolian secondary schools will require Mandarin to be taught and national coursebooks on Chinese ethics, history, and law will be the norm.
One Mongol opined, “I am Chinese, I am Mongolian, you can take anything from me except my mother language. Without language, I cannot say that I am Mongolian.”
Beijing’s actions in Inner Mongolia are an essential piece to China’s unification plan to bring all territories under the umbrella of the CCP.
Likely, protests and civil dissent to the new law will be quietly crushed, as has been the Chinese Communist Party’s way of achieving its goals for some time now.
