Lol, I wouldn&#x27;t call it out as pride.  There might simply be no reason to change.  Ideas have been expressed in the written language for thousands of years, and I believe that it&#x27;s probably as efficient as English.  Very different, but similar levels of efficiency.  Would it be &quot;pride&quot; if Chinese people questioned why English was full of inconsistencies and why don&#x27;t they just change those aspects of the language?<p>At the same time, English is a required subject in Chinese, and hopefully as that improves, people here will get the pros (and cons) of both systems.