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We have compulsory schooling in the US with mandatory English. If kids don't go to school, they and their parents can go to jail.

Also, you do realize the whole concentration camp thing is mostly propaganda to apply pressure to a geopolitical rival, right? The US has been doing it for the entirety of its existence.

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That's still not an official language. What's your point? That forced assimilation is OK because they learn a useful language? It's basically their version of manifest destiny and native boarding schools. Brainwashing in either case.

The US has been doing what its entire existence? Propaganda, camps, both? And so what? Doesn't make it right for either country. The US and China are both evil in their own ways.

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