439: Yes, that’s right! I am an academic nationalist!
When Guo Hao stepped onto the stage.
Several beams of light shone on Guo Hao, and the originally noisy auditorium fell silent.
Everyone's eyes were fixed on Guo Hao on the stage.
"It's alright, there are still a few minutes. Everyone, please tidy up first, then find your seats and sit down. I'll test the microphone."
Guo Hao smiled slightly and said these words fluently in english.
The microphone was good, no problem.
Inside the auditorium, everyone quickly found their seats.
The auditorium, large enough to accommodate five thousand people, was packed, filled with experts and scholars from various countries.
Many Leaders also attended, as well as media from various countries, Dragon Country media, and many students who had obtained entry qualifications.
Guo Hao stood on the stage for about five minutes; the agreed-upon time had arrived.
"Alright, time's up!"
Guo Hao shouted into the microphone.
The entire auditorium instantly fell completely silent, and everyone's eyes were on Guo Hao on the stage.
Guo Hao's status was too high now!
Especially in the eyes of Biology and medical experts, he was simply a god!
They dared not neglect Guo Hao's words, and as for the media, they dared not neglect them even more.
As for the students... they had already kept quiet when Guo Hao came on stage!
If something went wrong in this kind of setting, it wouldn't just be simple social death!
"Now, I'll give a brief overview of my Cloned Organs technology. After I finish, I'll leave about thirty minutes for you to ask questions."
Guo Hao didn't waste words and started directly!
After explaining all the theoretical difficulties and theoretical issues involved in his technology.
During the thirty minutes for questions, Guo Hao also helped those world-leading experts resolve some of their doubts.
"Alright! Thirty minutes are up!"
Guo Hao directly cut off the intention for everyone to continue asking questions and said directly.
"If you have questions, wait until later. For now, I want to talk about some more interesting topics, regarding my publishing in Chinese journals!"
As he spoke, Guo Hao's gaze swept over the many experts and scholars in front of him.
The media people beside them all showed strong excitement in their eyes.
Gossip!
Everyone looked at Guo Hao with burning eyes, wanting to get some earth-shattering news from Guo Hao's mouth.
"During this period, many experts and scholars have come to me through various channels. What's the reason? It's because the 'Xinghuo' journal I established only has a Chinese version, not an english version!"
This made them feel very incredible, especially since I only published the Chinese version of such an important paper on Cloned Organs.
They all thought I must be crazy and that I was practicing academic nationalism by doing this."
As he spoke, Guo Hao paused. There was a faint smile in his eyes as his gaze slowly swept across all the scholars in the auditorium.
A hint of awkwardness appeared in the eyes of these scholars, but they didn't lower their heads, just calmly looked at Guo Hao on the stage.
They thought they were right!
Guo Hao obviously noticed this.
"Do you think I'm going to defend my actions? Wrong! I never even thought about defending myself! And what's the point of defending?"
There was a faint smile in Guo Hao's eyes.
"You're all correct. I am indeed an academic nationalist!"
As soon as Guo Hao said this, the entire auditorium was in an uproar. All the scholars looked at Guo Hao on the stage with disbelief in their eyes.
The students beside them showed shocked expressions in their eyes.
They originally thought Professor Guo would have a good explanation, but they didn't expect Professor Guo to just admit it... He admitted it...
Everyone's eyes were filled with disbelief.
Why?
Everyone was very curious!
"There's nothing wrong with admitting it. I am an academic nationalist. I strongly believe in one saying: Science has no borders, but scientists have a homeland!"
Guo Hao smiled and said slowly.
His gaze looked sharply at the scientists from various countries below the stage.
"Most people think that english has always been the mainstream language in the mainstream world of academia, so it has been used continuously, even though current english has become cumbersome.
Millions of words, various proper nouns, and some words are even known only to a few people in the entire world.
Then professional english needs to be specially learned. This language, how can it be the mainstream academic language, just because of that damn inertia?"
Guo Hao's eyes were calm.
"I don't think so, right? The reason is that most of the mainstream voices in the current mainstream academic world come from english.
Therefore, scholars from other countries are forced to learn and use english, because not knowing english means not being able to integrate into the mainstream academic world.
It means being a scholar unknown to the mainstream academic world. Is this right?
Has it always been this way, so it is right?"
Guo Hao stood on the podium, his voice resounding and deafening.
"I don't know about other countries, and I don't want to know. Dragon Country is not like that. I don't interfere with the freedom of any Dragon Country scholar to submit to english journals.
I think it's okay for them to submit in english to foreign journals, and I even support them, but likewise.
I will use my current prestige and influence to tell Dragon Country scholars that it's okay not to know english.
You can still do academia, and there will be a channel for publishing papers, as long as you truly have the ability to do academia! I stand on the national stance and say this, becoming a benchmark! Standing here!
From now on, all my papers will be written in Chinese, and all my academic presentations will use Chinese! As for what you plan to do! I can't control it!"
Guo Hao's speech was not limited to this content.
He also focused on analyzing the expression methods and language density of Chinese and english, arguing that using english was just out of pure inertia.
The entire speech process could be said to be well-reasoned and well-supported.
The people in the venue were silent.
Guo Hao turned and left.
As the meeting slowly dispersed.
Guo Hao's speech just now had been recorded and uploaded to the internet.
Soon, that video spread quickly on the internet!
"Awesome!"
"It has to be Guo Hao! These words are well-reasoned and well-supported! When I heard others call me a nationalist before, I was a bit puzzled. What's wrong with being a nationalist? I thought there was nothing wrong!
Now Guo Hao has said everything I wanted to say!"
"Indeed! Isn't nationalism itself a form of patriotism? Is there anything wrong with that?"
"So satisfying! Guo Hao's angry retort stripped the Westerners bare! Satisfying! We should use Chinese! Just use it, just use it!"
"Indeed! Guo Hao is right! Ugly Country can have purely english journals, so why is Dragon Country having purely Chinese journals criticized by so many people? Isn't this a double standard? Exactly, exactly!"
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