Lee Kuan Yew just wanna uproot Singapore culture. Simple as that.
He ask parents to speak mandarin or english to their kids. But what about the grand parents? Ever occur to him, that many of the old folks are more comfortable with dialect, some of them don't even know how to speak mandarin?
By dissing dialect, clamming down on the usage of dialect, he's in fact cutting off the handing down of values from the old folks to their grand child.
Picture this.
Grand ma: "Ah boy, lai. Mai chug ker. Gua kao tong yeh dum dum." (teochew: ah boy, come here. don't go out, the floor is wet outside.)
Daughter, "aiya mah. don't speak dialect to kid!!!"
grand ma, "......"
ah boy, "ah ma4 (grandma), what did u say?"
grand ma, "....." (keep quiet. speechless....)
Happy??? Everything from Ah Ma4 (grandma) go down toilet bowl, trash bin. All kind of teo chew rhymes, sayings, all go down toilet instead of passing to the grand kid. 'cause Lee Kuan Yew discriminate against dialect.
And the sick part is this. Didn't the PAP use dialect during their early days? Up till now, the PAP still use dialect too during GE isn't it? So the PAP benefit from dialect usage, but nowadays they keep on bashing the dialect, treating dialect as shit??? Isn't that hypocrite, and disgusting behavior of the PAP??
Dialect is one of the foundation of Spore culture here. To talk down and abandon dialect, thats uprooting of Spore culture.
He ask parents to speak mandarin or english to their kids. But what about the grand parents? Ever occur to him, that many of the old folks are more comfortable with dialect, some of them don't even know how to speak mandarin?
By dissing dialect, clamming down on the usage of dialect, he's in fact cutting off the handing down of values from the old folks to their grand child.
Picture this.
Grand ma: "Ah boy, lai. Mai chug ker. Gua kao tong yeh dum dum." (teochew: ah boy, come here. don't go out, the floor is wet outside.)
Daughter, "aiya mah. don't speak dialect to kid!!!"
grand ma, "......"
ah boy, "ah ma4 (grandma), what did u say?"
grand ma, "....." (keep quiet. speechless....)
Happy??? Everything from Ah Ma4 (grandma) go down toilet bowl, trash bin. All kind of teo chew rhymes, sayings, all go down toilet instead of passing to the grand kid. 'cause Lee Kuan Yew discriminate against dialect.
And the sick part is this. Didn't the PAP use dialect during their early days? Up till now, the PAP still use dialect too during GE isn't it? So the PAP benefit from dialect usage, but nowadays they keep on bashing the dialect, treating dialect as shit??? Isn't that hypocrite, and disgusting behavior of the PAP??
Dialect is one of the foundation of Spore culture here. To talk down and abandon dialect, thats uprooting of Spore culture.
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