Its best for those who feel strongly about their culture and language to return to the motherland. The Chinese to China and the Indians to India and so forth. That way they can remain pure and feel comfrotable.
Those who have left the motherland have to adapt to their new environment and reach compromises that will allow all to assimilate, live harmoniously and start building an identity that they will be proud of. It may call for the best aspects of culture to be adopted from various races to be colourful and rich.
As an example, many Chinese leave for the US for various reasons. Some remain and are comfortable with their kids adapting English as the 1st and comfortable language. They have decided to become Americans but they also retain some aspects of their roots but time will eventually cause this to dissipate which is not unexpected. There are some that prefer to return to China and we respect that.
One cannot be a dog in the manger and expect people to work around you. Your approach will only stratify the races and it never be a peaceful or an effective country. Its like your son turns up for dinner in 8pm, the daughter at 7pm, your wife at 5pm and you at 6pm. Its one family under one roof but they don't function as one , do they?
Look at Malaysia, they went down the path of Malay for schools. Only 10 years ago they realised their mistake. You either get on the train to progress or get left behind still holding tightly to your culture and roots without progressing. Look at the Tamil venacular schools and Chinese venacular schools which were retained to garner votes among the lesser educated such as estate workers and small farms holdings. Its a lost generation. Why? because some smart politician figured out that only the ignorant and less educated tend to clutch on to the past. So give what they want and you got their votes. Its no surprise that Samy Vellu was the longest serving member of the Malaysia Cabinet because he made sure the estate tamils went to tamil schools and remained disconnected to the rest of society. He got his votes and the tamils as a community got left behind. You ask any Singaporean Tamil and they will struggle to speak to a Malaysian Tamil in Tamil but you know who is far ahead in life.
If your parents did not know and placed you in a position that you are struggling with, then when you become a parent, make sure that your kids get to right track where the rest of the sane society is moving. It makes little difference if the language is mexican, urdu, chinese, English and tagalog. The world does not wait for one man.
Many years ago, a lady speaking hokkein dragging a small kid sought the direction to Morris Allen but I could not figure out what she was telling until she described what they did. She came all the way to register her kid at this place from Toa Payoh. Looking at her, she looked like she was just getting by but she was concerned enough to register her kid in a language school and she had no clue about the language. Thats foresight and hope for you, right there.
Language and culture is a means to an end. Its evolves all the time. The Eurasians of portuguese descent cannot speak to the current portuguese in portugal as they got stuck with 16th century spoken portuguese. So you will never catch a Eurasian speaking the lingo or attempting to settle in portugal. Those from Macau however have estaqblihed links to Portugal and they are chinese. Thats life bro.
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