This guy gets it. It’s not about the linguistic barrier; the average person in Hong Kong speaks some level of English, Mandarin, and Cantonese. It’s about the slow erasure of Hong Kong culture through little acts like this. Yes, changing the phonetic pronunciation of “Pikachu” alone doesn’t do much, but this kind of…

It’s not the “learn one more language” that is the problem, it’s the fact that the language you’ve learn and spoke for your entire life up to this point suddenly gets erased like a steaming turd by the polical party that you didn’t vote for.

I’m sure that’s entirely true, but teaching Mandarin isn’t the problem. It’s NOT teaching Cantonese as well that’s the problem. If the US school system suddenly started dropping all English classes in favor of more Spanish classes, or Canada stopped teaching French, how would people react?

Wow, you know many languages! Very impressive.