Before PAP started the Speak mandarin campaign, yes, Chinese spoke dialects with each other or at home. But with Malays, the Chinese used to speak pasar Malay to them. Malay is easy to master. Even grannies spoke Malay in thjose days. Malays do speak dialects too but a smattering. But to change that all and turn to Mandarin, even the CHinese are finding it hard, or were you blind and deaf? The old folks had it worst.
I am saying the SMC smacks of Chinese chauvinism due to the way it was being driven from on high. Blurfucks like you dont know that SMC raison-detre lay in the PAP trying to appease the unhappy Chinese-educated Chinese voters, who have been unhappy since the closure of Nantah and Chinese schools. SAP was the same tool. Please read and repeat this many times to get it that they were PAP race-based politics as you seem to be cranially decrepit before you vomit anymore govt cum.
Speaking dialects was not driven by a govt; it was the spontaneous people's choice at street level from the early days of trading between Chinese immigrants and local resdient Malays. This has evolved over long years under the British. You must be too young to understand this social dynamic.
Malays learning Mandarin? Sure, a few bad words here and there maybe, if they are not already put off by the in-your-face aggressiveness of the SMC. If Chinese have difficulty learning the language, you expect another race to learn it? What a dolt you are! You said some, yes some; but is that enough for social integration across the whole pop? Are you daft?
In those days, when govt leave the races alone to mingle with each other, Chinese and Indians treated Malays in more friendlier and abang/adek ways, with more courteousness, and there was always a good deal of community bonding as both sides. Not people like you, who never waits to lord it over to them. Chinese are great and capable in many ways sure, but they will be greater if they learn to be humble and treat their less equal brothers with maganimous gestures, not adopt an an eye for an eye attitude.
It's people liek you who have got a lot to learn about the way of PAP race politics, social graces, humility etc more than the Malays shld be learning mandarin!
hey whoose clone are you always posting the same old same old cliche nonsense.
Even if the chinese spoke mandarin it doesn't have anything to do with the non chinese. Before that they spoke dialect to one another understand?
The indians and malays can always learn mandarin. Some of them have done so. There are more chinese in this world and not all indians speak the same language. How? Impossible right? Getting them to learn mandarin is very cruel and evil right but not if chinese have to learn malay am i right? :oIo:
Lastly what nonsense are you insinuating that the speak mandarin campaign makes the other 2 languages unequal? Explain yourself.
Give you 0 out of 10 for your explaination.
