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So where are we on the path to making this nation a real country? We were doing fine when the Cjinese and Indian communicate with patois Malay and most Singaporeans can speak a little at least.
Another problem LKY and the present generation of leaders failed to produced, pride and patriotism in the majority of the people. I bet when it comes to the crunch, many will leave the country at a drop of the hat.
strangely, the relative affluence has to do with this apparent lack of patriotism & identity. Just look at the performance of our football team.
given today context, we cannot reverse the language policy to promote malay so that we can "unite" the country. The only way is to unite it to speak English. However, we do that - there is considerable resistance from the Chinese population. Ng did that and recall the outlash? in fact, he merely took a little step and immediately the population bashed him back.