Understand the chinese, malay and tamil translations of signs,
govt letters, street names are added to cater to the
non-English-educated people in the 1970s, 1980s circa. By now, the
2010s, those people have mostly passed away or upgraded to be able
to understand English now.
So why are we still having chinese, malay and tamil translations
now? Don't tell me it's to cater to tourists, then we might as well
include Japanese, Italian, French, German, Hindi, Sanskrit,
Spainese, Nepalese, Vietnamese.......and then one simple street
sign will be 10 metre long. One simple MRT announcement will take
10 minutes to complete.
As English is our main language, we should also make it known to
tourists and immigrants to learn English before coming here as we
won't be learning their foreign language to talk to them. We should
be like US and other countries, only 1 main language.