However, after much contemplation I rejected their offer
because my conscience and moral standards would
not allow me to serve the PAP government.
Instead, I decided to apply for the bond-free NUS scholarship.
This completely explains everything.
what you expect when S'pore run by Lee Kill You...........he's a
Hakka........
Harry Lee Kuan
Yew is not a hakka.
Harry Lee Kuan Yew is a hakka peranakan baba. If you just say
that harry Lee Kuan Yew is a hakka, people will be confused and
think that Lee Kuan Yew is a "hakka chinese". This is completely
wrong and must be rejected.
Harry Lee Kuan Yew is hakka
peranakan baba.
The babas, on the other hand, also known as Straits
Chinese, were Chinese more in name than practice.
They were the descendants of the very early Chinese
immigrants (Hokkiens from the Fujian province) to the straits
settlements of Malaya (Penang, Singapore and Malacca).
They
assimilated with both the local Malays and the colonising British,
whom they especially admired. The babas developed
their own culture, cuisine and language - Malay liberally sprinkled
with Hokkien.
The sinkeh were the traders, the coolies and the
shophouse owners. The babas became the lawyers, the civil servants
and the politicians; they attended the local English-language
schools run in the tradition of the UK's public schools, and Oxford
and Cambridge.
If the sinkeh received an overseas education at all, it
was in Nanking or another university in China.
Although the sinkeh dominated Singapore's population,
it was the babas who dominated public decision-making.
In
effect, a baba minority captured sinkeh Singapore, and that
minority's attitudes were more those of Victorian England than
China.
It was
the babas who were the framers of Singapore's rules and
institutions. Many of Singapore's most prominent Chinese have
had baba backgrounds. Lee Kuan Yew, who became prime minister of
Singapore aged just 35, is the most obvious example.
He
claims a Hakka heritage, although his upbringing was that of a
baba: at home, he spoke English with his parents and baba Malay to
his grandparents. "Mandarin was totally alien to me and unconnected
with my life," Lee said of his
childhood.
For Lee, Chineseness was an acquired skill and
later a political necessity.
He was not brought up as a Chinese with a focus on
China, but as a
baba who looked to England. He followed the
conventional career path of a baba and went to London to study
law.
And
so Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore became Harry Lee of Fitzwilliam
College, Cambridge.
His father had given him and two of his brothers
English, as well as Chinese, names.
Did Lee run Singapore as a piece of Asia mired in
Chinese ways?
No.
He ran it in a manner to which a British colonial administrator
would have aspired.
http://www.managementtoday.co.uk/news/648273/
If you understand the fact that Harry Lee Kuan Yew is not a
chinese but an anglophile hakka peranakan baba, you will have a
richer and clearer understanding of Singapore politics, development
and history.
Singapore history and politics cannot be properly understood
without knowing the fact that Harry Lee Kuan Yew is hakka
peranakan baba. I think that is completely true.
