Literature and Vernaculars
●	Vernacular language use is facing a considerable crisis in mainland China these days because it is diminishing. Nobody knows it better than Cantonese speakers. There are always so many descriptions of delicate feelings, or expressions deep down at the most intricate corner of your soul that cannot be voiced in another language or in the Beijing dialect. When the vernacular language is banned or exterminated, literature will wither and fade. Literature is the soul of a nation. If vernacular expression and feelings are eradicated simply in the name of efficiency and modernity, I am afraid that what a nation would lose is its roots, not just its shoots.
Cultural Profundity and the Learning of English
●	The English language is like an electric plug. A plug is useful because you can take it with you to anywhere in the world and connect it to the electricity supply. However you cannot mistake a plug for the source of electricity because it does not provide electricity on its own. Your source of electricity comes from the profoundest part of your culture inside your mother tongue, which gives birth to a nation's history. Therefore should you ever misconceive the purpose of learning English, you are making the same mistake by taking a plug for a grid. The grid always lies in your own language.