In fact, the heavy emphasis on both the local and the international has inevitably come at the expense of Chinese, causing some to worry seriously that the "soil in which ideas survive" is being impoverished.
事實上，重鄉土與國際，相對地輕忽中文，導致「思想存活的土壤」日益貧瘠，的確是許多人憂慮的問題。