http://geocities.com/wilfred_shimmen/
This is a good book that one should read.Also,non-Chinese and
Chinese alike should refer to this quote;
The Eurasian protagonist sees a Singapore heading into the 21st
Century with the genuine multi-racial flavour of his society,
(which had been created by Stamford Raffles and the colonial
administrators after him), becoming a thing of the past. With the
'Overseas Chinese' kicked out of Vietnam and other 'Overseas
Chinese' in the respective South East Asia societies in the region
having to either assimilate or leave, the Chinese-dominant
Singapore Government has created a 'Sino environment' on Singapore
to attract ethnic-Chinese from abroad to settle in his island-home,
while Eurasians like him are made to feel like outcasts.
He 'witnesses' the transformation of his island into a Sino-society
- from place-names, ensuring that ethnic-Chinese hold key-posts in
government, playing up the use of Mandarin-Chinese, the switching
of dialect-names to Hanyu-Pinyin, to even the attempt to rewrite
Singapore's Malay history to intimate that the island has always
had a 'Chinese-connection', and the ignoring of Singapore's Malay
history and connection.
This applies for any minority.Since I'm half-Chinese,I do not
face this much difficulty,but I see a submergence of the other
cultures and minoroties beneath a tide of Sinicisation.
Its visible in the people,in the culture,in the fabric.This is not
the multiracial Singapore I was taught existed.It's eventually
going to become a homogenous monster,if Singapore continues to
follow this PAP directive.
