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What exactly do you mean by "culture"? What's your understanding of the word?
culture is music, is art, is philosophy, its literature, its food, its a way of life, its a outlook of life, etc etc.
What exactly do you mean by "culture"? What's your understanding of the word?
why buy fake product? why buy phony product? why pretend, role play as if we are ang moh? why speak in a inefficient way, speaking mandarin or chinese dialect using english? why not speak mandarin or chinese dialect directly?
at least we agree in one thing. singapore is a freakish country.
There's no such thing as an Asian language or an Asian culture. In context of Singapore, the native language is Malay, the rest are immigrant languages.
If anyone wants to promote so-called Asian or native roots, then it should be the Malay language and culture. Promoting Chinese is just bullying on numerical superiority.
The problem with Singaporeans is they are not Ang Mohs but they aren't Chinese either. They actually don't know what they are.
My suggestion is simple.. call yourselves Singaporeans and learn to speak Malay.
The Peranakans assimilated very well. I'm sure the rest of Singapore can do the same if they set their minds to it.
sorry i have to disagree. there used to be lots of chinese here. but many of the people here in this country had been transform by the PAP govt into a weird shit not western nor asian race.
culture is music, is art, is philosophy, its literature, its food, its a way of life, its a outlook of life, etc etc.
Should be better than PRC. You want Chinese Singaporeans to be culturally like PRCs?
I suspected your answer would be something along those lines. I have news for you my friend. If that's your definition, the PRC Chinese are fast losing their culture too.
In all the major Chinese cities, the dream of every Chinaman (and woman) involves being as Western as possible.
Go take a look for yourself. :p
Put it this way.
97 percent of the population in Spore are Asian. When the country 'promote' English as 1st language, and 'demote' Asian language as 2nd language, something is seriously wrong with this country.
Its like 97 percent of the whole country starting out using mac and all kind of linux os, but the PAP govt impose a policy forcing the whole country to use Windows XP, Windows Vista as the default OS. doesn't sound right to me.
the sum is not right. 97 percent of the population are asian, and we put some so much emphasis on english language. thats a sell out to the asian language and culture.
I suspected your answer would be something along those lines. I have news for you my friend. If that's your definition, the PRC Chinese are fast losing their culture too.
In all the major Chinese cities, the dream of every Chinaman (and woman) involves being as Western as possible.
Go take a look for yourself. :p
someone should tell this straight in the face to LKY.
- I rather be a poorer man than sell away my chinese language and culture like a prostitute.
English is hardly a prerequisite for being a sinkie. For example, New PRC citizens are under no compulsion whatsoever to learn English.
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LKY was right to make the English language the administrative medium for 2 primary reasons:
1. Political i.e. to avoid a probable 'fight' between Malays and Chinese;
2. Economic i.e. English was and still is the international commerical business lingua franca.
I for one have personally benefitted from the policy as it has been my global passport to getting very good paying jobs overseas, and there are many many other Singaporeans like me.
the question is not about what ONE official language it should be. the question is WHO WE WANNA BE? Asian or Ang Moh wannabe?
i suggest chinese. why so? 'cause the population 75 over percent are chinese here. simple as that. if i am not wrong, the high ranking official from british posted to this island, during raffles time, they learn chinese too.
its not about the market share... if life is just about market share, decision making in life would be a breeze.
The same problem happens to our Malay and Indian compatriots too. Most of them are now speaking rojak Melayu or Tamil mixed with English. And ultimately, Singapore is now neither here nor there. The English standard is also ridiculously low, in order to boost passing numbers. A case of shifting goalposts to get goals.