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Increased use of Mandarin, however, obviously infringes of Chinese minority rights.
Edit: just to be clear, many Chinese dialects have a lower lexical similarity than European languages. The standardization of Mandarin in education has had impacts on these dialects as well.
Now let's compare changes in poverty, population, and growth statistics for Russians in Latvia, versus Uyghurs in China. Oh, oh no...
If that happened in China or Russia, headlines would be: "cultural genocide"