Singaporeans are moulded by LKY into what we are
today....non-mandarin speaking bananas.
After Lee Kuan Yew dies, all of his biased and rubbish policies
must be overthrown and the destructive trends and tendencies must
all be reversed.
We can follow the example of Taiwan:
When KMT arrived in Taiwan with 2
million mainlanders in 1949, they encountered a number of
problems:
1. The local Taiwanese were quite
japanized after almost 50 years of Japanese colonial rules. They
spoke Japanese, Hokkien or wore Japanese clothings.
2. The 2 million mainlanders spoke
different Chinese dialects, causing communication problems to
occur.
3. There was an urgency to
de-japanize the local Taiwanese and sinicize the
Taiwanese.
4. Mandarin became the main tool to
create a 'cultural unity' and to overcome the communication
problems and to sinicize the Taiwanese
population. Other
dialects were suppressed in Taiwan. For instance, if you speak a
Non-Mandarin dialect in school, you will be fined and penalized.
Speaking dialects were seen as
"uneducated".
However after the removal of martial
law in 1987 followed by democratization of
Taiwan,there
is a rise in the movement for protecting and speaking "mother
tongue". However, this pertains mainly to native dialects of Taiwan
such as Taiwanese Min Nan, Hakka, aborigine languages, which are
supported by the Taiwanese government.
While some of the young mainlander
Taiwanese can still speak their own dialect (such as Wu), there is
hardly an incentive for them to speak. Most of the mainlander
Taiwanese (of Wu heritage) I know today spoke Mandarin as like
their native language.
In general, the following language direction occur in
Taiwan:
1. 1949-1987
- Mandarinization of Taiwan and suppression of other dialects in
Taiwan
2. 1987 onwards - Rise of Taiwanese Min Nan, Hakka and other
aborigine dialects due to government protection. Mainlander
Taiwanese are assumed to speak Mandarin as their native 'mother
tongue' and there were no incentives to promote other dialects such
as Wu, Shandonese, Sichuanese, causing these dialects to be almost
dying in Taiwan...
http://www.chinahistoryforum.com/index.php?/topic/32824-chiang-kai-shek-spoke-mandarin-with-strong-wu-dialect-accent/page__st__15
However after the removal of
martial law in 1987 followed by democratization of
Taiwan,there
is a rise in the movement for protecting and speaking "mother
tongue". However, this pertains mainly to native dialects of Taiwan
such as Taiwanese Min Nan, Hakka, aborigine languages, which are
supported by the Taiwanese
government.
