Comments by "Peter Jacobsen" (@pjacobsen1000) on "Cantonese or Mandarin? A debate in Hong Kong education since 2008" video.

When they say Cantonese is HK's local dialect, it means that Cantonese is the dialect spoken in HK. It does NOT mean "Cantonese belongs to HK".
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@wsant2872 " It is not a formal language that can be written". What an ignorant comment. Every language and/or dialect can be written, and indeed can be written using a number of different scripts. Just look at Mandarin Chinese which can be written with Chinese characters (complex and simplified both work), and can also be written with PinYin, a written language all Chinese children must learn in school. You could easily write Mandarin in Japanese Kana, as well.
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@ianhomerpura8937 The video used the term 'dialect', so I used that, too. Wikipedia also considers Cantonese to be a dialect, but I'm happy to view Cantonese as a language in its own right. But since you say "Learn the difference between the two", where do you make the cut-off between dialect and language, or how would you define the difference between the two?
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@snowyy.5275 HK is pretty exceptional, and so is its culture. But you could make that same argument for other parts of China: Shanghai, Taiwan, Macao, Yunnan. All quite exceptional in their own way.
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