It is a bad luck of Singaporeans to have an anglo dog come and
rule us for 50 years.
2. If we
study other nations where people of different ethnic groups have
immigrated, we will find that integration and unity depended on
several important factors. Firstly the indigenous people or the
people who had set up the country make up at least initially, a
very big proportion of the population. Additionally they would be
dominant and materially successful. The small numbers of immigrants
trickling in found it judicious and beneficial to be identified
with the numerically superior and powerful dominant inhabitants.
They would willingly forget their original languages and adopt the
language of the people of the country as well as their culture;
they would intermarry and over time they would be totally absorbed
and assimilated and identified with the indigenous people. In such
a situation unity is not a problem. The United States is one such
country where the original language and basic culture of first
settlers are accepted by later immigrants.
3. In the old days before the coming of the Europeans the few Chinese and Indians who settled
in Malacca adopted the language and much of the culture of the
Malays. Though there was no assimilation
nevertheless good relations existed between the immigrant settlers
and the Malays. Unfortunately when later the China-born
Chinese-speaking immigrants dominated in numbers as well as
economic wealth, the Malay speaking Baba and Nyonya
deliberately dropped their Malay language and Baba culture
and
http://chedet.co.cc/chedetblog/2008/09/malay-unity-and-malaysian-unit.html#more
But my
father was also the eldest son in a typical Peranakan family. He
cannot even crack a soft-boiled egg – such things not being
expected of men, especially eldest sons, in Peranakan
families.
http://www.divaasia.com/article/3021
A significant category of Chinese, although one not listed
in the census reports, were the Baba
Chinese (see Glossary) or Straits
Chinese (see Glossary). They were Chinese who after long
residence in Southeast Asia spoke Malay or English as their first
language, and whose culture contained elements from China,
Southeast Asia, and sometimes Europe as well. An indication of the
size of the Baba Chinese community was provided by the 1980 census
report that 9 percent of Chinese families spoke English at
home.
Stereotypically the Baba were the offspring of Chinese migrants
and local women. In the nineteenth century, they tended to be
wealthier and better educated than the mass of immigrants and to
identify more with Singapore and Southeast Asia than with China. In
spite of their language, the Baba considered themselves Chinese,
retained Chinese kinship patterns and religion, and even when
speaking Malay used a distinct Baba dialect of Malay with many loan
words from Hokkien. Never a large proportion of Singapore's Chinese
population, in the late nineteenth century they took advantage of
opportunities for education in English and promoted themselves as
loyal to Britain. In Singapore, many Baba
families spoke English as a first language and produced many of the
leaders of Singapore's independent political movements,
including Lee Kuan
Yew.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?frd/cstdy:@field(DOCID+sg0044)
This anglo baba half chinese want to come and tell me full
hokkien chinese that my dialect is worthless, no need to speak.
Go fuck off.
You are not even true chinese.
I am not going to take lectures on chinese culture from baba
half chinese.
Go fuck off.
Half chinese come and tell me full chinese what can speak what
cannot speak. People hear also laugh until die lah. In the old days
they call this type of person western dog.