Biden at Penn: did the Vice President insult the Chinese nation?
Language Log 2013-05-20
Summary:
The Tea Leaf Nation online magazine posted this article on May 19, 2013: "VP Biden’s Penn Commencement Speech Inspires Viral Rant by ‘Disappointed’ Chinese Student." The article, by Xiaoying Zhou, offers an excellent account of this tempest in a teapot (as it were), and the comments that follow it are also germane.
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