"But if I could sing the songs I know, I wouldn't be eliminated so quickly! It was your staff who required us contestants to sing Cantonese songs! This is so unfair to those of us who are not good at Cantonese!" said the girl helplessly.
"What? You said that there was a staff member who insisted that you must choose to sing Cantonese songs?" Yang Yifei couldn't help but ask when he heard it.
The dispute between the girl and the judges just now was an issue that the program team had to deal with, but it involved issues related to the rules of the competition, so their guidance team had to inquire carefully.
The girl didn’t know Yang Yifei, but she had just noticed that he had been standing behind and observing. He should be a small leader in the program team, right?
And most importantly, the other party just spoke Mandarin!
Then there is a high possibility that the other party is not a local Hong Kong person!
If there is anything bad about Hong Kong, it must be that the local Hong Kong people discriminate against people from the mainland!
It is difficult for mainlanders to integrate into the local community, the most important of which is the language barrier.
Except for people from Cantonese-speaking areas, others who speak Mandarin will be discriminated against by locals!
The girl had also seen some Singaporean Chinese being discriminated against by local Hong Kong people just because they spoke Mandarin!
That's really unlucky!
So when she saw a Mandarin-speaking staff member, the girl immediately expressed her request: "I told the staff member in front of me that I wanted to sing 'Red Plum Blossom Praise' (released in 1964). But the staff member in charge of registration said that it must be Cantonese songs, and songs from mainland China were not allowed! In the end, I had no choice but to choose 'Half a Catty, Eight Taels', which I had only heard a few times. My Cantonese is really too poor to sing Cantonese songs well!"
"Leader! Can I choose a song that I am good at and sing it again?" The girl thought the other party was the person in charge of the program team and asked him with a pleading look on her face.
Did Yang Yifei expect that Hong Kong would add such rules without authorization?
Limited language type?
However, there are 6 joint competition areas for this program. Except for the Hong Kong area which requires you to sing Cantonese songs, there is no such requirement in other areas!
Speaking of which, Taiwan also has Hakka language, and of course there are Hakka songs, but no one has ever asked the contestants to sing songs in that language!
However, what is certain is that most of the songs that can be sung in other regions are in Mandarin!
Yang Yifei immediately asked the director, "Have you added the rule that the Hong Kong competition must sing Cantonese songs? Has this rule been approved by the overall program team?"
The director was also a little helpless at this moment, saying that it would be difficult to deal with a group parachuting in!
I didn't expect to run into trouble on the first day.
He is so unlucky!
However, the director had to patiently answer, "This is indeed a rule that our region added on temporarily. After all, the official language in Hong Kong is either English or Cantonese! If the TV station wants to broadcast normally, it can only choose one of these two languages! And our TV station's audience is all local, so of course we have to speak Cantonese and sing Cantonese songs! Otherwise, the audience won't buy it!"
Hong Kong is now a British colony, and the official language is mainly English, followed by the local Cantonese. If TV stations want to broadcast smoothly, they can only abide by local government orders!
Moreover, their TV station was newly opened, and its local audience is not as large as that of other large local TV stations. In order to increase ratings, they also have to cater to the language habits of local audiences!
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