Given that a large percentage of the world is using chinese at the moment, wouldnt you expect a film set in the future to reflect this.
A large percentage of the world isn’t using Chinese at the moment, most Han chinese speak a form of cantonese, and write using largely pinyin (simplified chinese) based characters. That’s one cultural group of people. there maybe ‘a lot’ of them, but that’s not the same thing.
But it misses the point. The use of chinese and made up swear words in programmes like Firefly and BG is not there because of some nod towards a future culture; it’s there to get around US censorship. Mainstream TV in the USA Can/Must Not Offend. So writers get around it by making them up, It’s not like the chinese swearing in Firefly is even that bad ( i looked up one ages ago, and it was something like “You have a face like a baboon”) which is in of itself a sort of cultural racism (using chinese for just swearing, watched by an audience of mainstream westerners) Which for a person like Whedon must have tied him in all sorts of knots, and all so pointless and childish, and cowardly.
Make like Yoda “Do, or Do Not”
hateful