It was wrong of her to generalize. But she did have a point;
albeit it's more of a misconception. True; such rowdy behaviour has
nothing to do with the language you speak, but I guess it has
become a stereotypical view when ah bengs and ah lians generally do
not speak good English. And when they do; you definitely wouldn't
wanna associate yourself with 'em. It's really a disgrace;
ironically; some are really nice people.
Unfortunately, so many of such impolite, inconsiderate, unrefined,
uncouth, rowdy, insolent, peace-shattering behaviours certainly
come from a majority of such mandarin-speaking
youths. Don't flame me yet; go out to the Singapore streets and
observe for yourself.
I could understand everyone slamming, blasting, criticizing and
flaming her. Read her article carefully; she mentioned that 'she
doesn't mean all mandarin-speaking people; as some English-speaking
people ain't angels either'. (somewhere along that line.) Was this
too vague or too subtle for people to overlook it? Or was it just a
statement use to rebutt when we refute her article?
To perceive her as narrow-minded; I couldn't agree more. She has
indeed perceived and classified such rowdy kids under the
mandarin-speaking category. It so happens that none of the
English-speaking kids were displaying such intolerant behaviour; or
so it seems. Guess she didn't happen to see one?
