How to evaluate that 70% of Suzhou-born teenagers can't speak Suzhou dialect?

Dialect stigma in the process of popularization. From the propaganda point of view, as a post-90 s, when I was in primary school, I often saw the slogan posted by the school: pay attention to language and learn to be a civilized person.

In terms of measures, at the same time, speaking dialects at school will be punished by moral education, and spitting and littering are the same. Over time, a strange cultural atmosphere has formed in the minds of teenagers:

Speaking Wu is uncivilized, the dialect is "vulgar" and the dialect is rude.

Teenagers in Wuyu District know nothing about their hometown dialect. They don't know what Wu dialect is, they don't know that the dialect in their hometown is Wu dialect, and they don't know that most dialects in Wu dialect area are interoperable. This is why Cantonese and Minnan also have different sounds in five miles, but Cantonese and Minnan are still the preferred communication media for meeting fellow villagers. This kind of intimacy, people who understand naturally understand. For a long time, Hong Kong and Taiwan have been strong cultural export places and targets of national united front in China cultural circle, which makes it unsuccessful to stigmatize Cantonese and Minnan. Wu dialect has no United front value. Under the cultural background that culture serves politics and cultural development is dominated by administrative power, Wu culture has no right to speak. Therefore, uncivilized, other than Mandarin, that is, the standard dialect in Luanping County, Hebei Province, is uncivilized. This can be seen from the previous Spring Festival Evening. Don't speak dialects. Putonghua accents in southern provinces are also ridiculed by various language programs. Children in Northeast China can speak Northeast dialect at school, children in Beijing can speak Beijing dialect at school, children in Sichuan can speak Sichuan dialect at school, but children in Wu-speaking areas can speak Wu dialect at school? Sorry, you are uncivilized. At present, Cantonese and Minnan can still maintain vitality, while Wu dialect is dying out. Language is the carrier of culture, and the long history of Wu dialect carries a long history of Wu culture and is an important branch of Chinese culture. Wu dialect is the dialect of China, just as Chinese is the dialect of the world.

I don't think anyone wants a "push English movement" to make Chinese extinct just because it is necessary to follow the trend and facilitate communication. Just because some people can't see the value of Wu dialect doesn't mean that Wu dialect is worthless. Mandarin-speaking areas think that Cantonese is a bird language, and Taipei upper class laughs at Minnan dialect as a sweet potato accent, which does not necessarily mean that other people's dialects are rubbish. Just as Americans don't understand the aesthetic feeling that "it is suspected that the Milky Way has set for nine days", "the long river of lonely smoke in the desert sets the yen" and "a river of spring water flows eastward", the poems of Tang and Song Dynasties and novels of Ming and Qing Dynasties have no value in the eyes of Germans, it doesn't mean that China people have no value. The so-called "in order to promote communication and conform to the trend, it should be extinct" and "Wu dialect is worthless and deserves to be extinct". People who believe in Darwinism in this double-standard society are usually those who believe in "the uselessness of traditional Chinese medicine" and "the dross of classical Chinese". During the Cultural Revolution, the same people shouted to break capitalism. Ignorance is not terrible, ignorance is terrible. Regarding the theory of "natural extinction", I want to remind you that at the beginning, no one said "natural extinction" by any means. I stabbed you with a knife, and you bled to death. Is it a natural death?