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The irony is unbelievable. Some people claim to be the guardians of Chinese roots, yet they no longer speak the ancestral languages their grandparents spoke — Hokkien, Teochew, Cantonese, Hakka and the rest. They write in Simplified Chinese rather than the Traditional characters inherited from generations of ancestors. And mainland Chinese history itself contains painful episodes of political campaigns that persecuted traditional Chinese culture and teachers, attacked parents, and encouraged denunciations of elders.
So what exactly do you mean by roots?
Is it merely having Chinese ancestry, carrying a Chinese passport, or identifying with a particular nation-state?
Or does it also mean preserving the languages, script, customs, moral traditions and historical memory passed down through generations?
If you have abandoned your ancestors' languages, discarded their script and severed the transmission of their traditions, on what grounds do you presume to lecture others about their roots?