The role of Cantonese in this protest

Hey guys, I am doing a research on Anti-ELAB and I have some questions.
What is the role of Cantonese in Anti-ELAB? How Cantonese is being used in this social movement?
Thank you

1. Creating a sense of identity
2. A unifying cause

Asking the effect on the movement Or are you asking how it is USED in protests ah?

Could be both! Thank you btw

u English speaker 定蝦我英文差呀Ching?

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Cantonese is part of HKer's language identity and local consciousness. it acts as an opposition to putonghua and mainland Chinese culture, which is considered uncivilized in most aspects.
I study sociolinguistics and I just wrote sth on this as my term paper a few days ago, hope that helps

有錯勿屌，不過有篇幾正既paper可以做reference

https://www.georgetownjournalofinternationalaffairs.org/online-edition/language-identity-and-politics-in-hong-kong
巴打加油

To identify Hong Kongers, separate from Mainland China.

Language affecting formation/ understanding of certain ideas (See Newspeak from 1984), it can control ideas in a society/ discourse

Use of languages can also be an act of identity alignment (See romanization of Japanese / Cyrillization of Chinese)

(I guess