Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-30602727-20160202181457/@comment-2020924-20160221093334

CloverLeafNine wrote: How can some people still not know that it isn't just "Chinese"

and that "Chinese" is literally hundreds of dialects (ಠ益ಠ)

And they don't even sound the same smh

Blame the Communists, who want us to believe that Putonghua is true Chinese, and everything else is a 方言, spoken only by uncultured potatoes.

Also, when my relatives tell me to speak 中文, they expect Cantonese to come out of my mouth, not Mandarin. So maybe it's also because we call them all "Chinese" anyway (∀;)