Make Mandarin a Compulsary Language

last SG · 2010-04-12T13:18:42+00:00

oic..if that's the case here's a msg to all chinese singaporeans:if u want the job that much, show the employer that u are much more qualified and experiance...

Soniababy28 SG

Why not make Mandarin a Compulsary Language in all schools? Even for pre-schools... I am writing on this topic cause i am damn pist off with the way Employment in Singapore is... For those who are unemployed they'll understand why. Ever flip through the Classified paper searching for jobs... "Prefer mandarin speaking", " able to communicate in Mandarin", "Able to liase with china workers", "Bilingual in Mandarin" and etc....I am one of those who is affected by this usual lines. Very limited jobs available for the Non-chinese. I thought Singapore is suppose to be Multi-Racial country whereby in a company they should have all our main 3 races working together and united. But if employers are seeking such a requirement aren't they actually reducing the chances of non-chinese? Don't tell me that all these companies with such requirement doesn't even have atleast 1 Mandarin speaking employee in every department? Then why reduce non-chinese chances in employment? Or is it that these companies just want their employees all to be of the same race?

multipleviews SG

“Employees must not conveniently use the excuse of perceived discriminatory work practices to cover up their own work inadequacies.”

DPM TEO CH

jojobeach SG

Language is only one of the many discriminatory practices our dear government has turned a blind eye to.

There's also age, health conditions and now.. preference for non-citizens (national origins).

Time for a new leadership.

Rooney9 SG

even if you know how to speak mandarin, if you are not chinese, you will not be hired.

the Bear SG

really.. if you have to speak Mandarin, and you are unable to, should i still hire you?

and if you make Mandarin a compulsory subject in school, you will hear a litany of complaints from people like you about it...

screw the conspiracy theorists and whackjobs out there, you want to learn something, you learn it yourself... if you are not a fit for the job, then giving you the goddamned job is a waste of everyone's time..

if you want the job that much, go learn the language... you don't see me kpkb-ing when i know i will not get certain jobs advertised because i do not speak japanese, thai, bengali, bahasa or arabic or whatever...

the company does not owe you a living...

Rooney9 SG

even some chinese dunno how to speak chinese properly after learning at primary and secondary schools

the Bear SG

even some chinese dunno how to speak chinese properly after learning at primary and secondary schools

then they'll be fired if their job requires them to speak fluent mandarin...

Arapahoe SG

Hi Sonia

do not be despaired you are not going to be happy working for these enclosed minded folks.

These folks uses lanaguage to discriminate other race. It happen to hospital as well. There is an unwritten policies going on that is not easy to prove.

but continue.....to fight on.

Deino SG

Making it a compulsary language would be direct racist act by the gahmen.

If there is one language that should be compulsary, that should be malay. I'm not pro malay or anything but look at the fact that we're comfortably sitting on malay soil.

Although we're a so called multi-racial country with an ever changing culture, we shouldn't be ignorant of the past. Its said that sooner or later as more people come to Singapore, we would be losing our identity. Is Singapore fated to be doomed?

16/f/lonely SG

Malays were not the first inhabitants.

In fact the term "Malay" was not used to describe the "indigeneous" people here.

charlize SG

There is seriously no problem of the Mandarin language being lost in Singapore given the size of PRC residents living and working here.

Pretty soon, everybody will have to speak Mandarin to communicate.

Really.

Arapahoe SG

There is seriously no problem of the Mandarin language being lost in Singapore given the size of PRC residents living and working here.

Pretty soon, everybody will have to speak Mandarin to communicate.

Really.

Than eventually they will hired English speaking foreign talent to work here....seriously dude we are getting screwed here......left right center....you named it.

Singtonian are short sight to be an idiot......

charlize SG

Than eventually they will hired English speaking foreign talent to work here....seriously dude we are getting screwed here......left right center....you named it.

Singtonian are short sight to be an idiot......

Haiz.

40 over years of nation building efforts all gone down the drain with the implementation of lax open door policies of the past few years.

What happened to bilingualism?

We are moving backwards.

Deino SG

Malays were not the first inhabitants.

In fact the term "Malay" was not used to describe the "indigeneous" people here.

Today, Malay is more of a general term.

Call them Orang Laut, they're still Malays.

Arapahoe SG

Haiz.

40 over years of nation building efforts all gone down the drain with the implementation of lax open door policies of the past few years.

What happened to bilingualism?

We are moving backwards.

actually whats going to happen is that we find ourselved back to where we started bilingualism...if LKY is going to be around the next 50 yrs he is going to say SEE...I Was right from Day 1...... : )

Xcert SG

Making it a compulsary language would be direct racist act by the gahmen.

If there is one language that should be compulsary, that should be malay. I'm not pro malay or anything but look at the fact that we're comfortably sitting on malay soil.

we are not sitting comfortable on malay soil.

Having malay as the national language doesnt mean we are on malay soil.

Please get the idea straight.

Junyang700 SG

Learn the language outside. Take up some mandarin classes at CC or language centres all that. =)

Chinese language isn't hard actually, given Singapore standards. Can write a bit, speak a bit, OK liao.

Atobe SG

Today, Malay is more of a general term.

Call them Orang Laut, they're still Malays.

Not all Malays are "Orang Laut".

The ex-Malaysian PM Mahathir had written in his book - The Malay Dilemma - that the Malays had migrated into Peninsular Malaya from Yunnan Province in China, and anthropologists have also documented this historical migration fact.

The original and true "Sons of the Soil" in Malaya - also known as 'Bumiputras' - are the "primitive jungle tribesmen" known as the 'negritos' - also referred nowadays as the "Orang Asli".

FYI - Yunnan was located at the fringe of the Chinese Empire and was 'absorbed' into China as a province only in 109 AD during the Han Dynasty.

Deino SG

we are not sitting comfortable on malay soil.

Having malay as the national language doesnt mean we are on malay soil.

Please get the idea straight.

LOL..i did not mean that it should be a national language.

You rekon we're sitting smack in the middle of China?

Deino SG

Not all Malays are "Orang Laut".

The original and true "Sons of the Soil" in Malaya - also known as 'Bumiputras' - are the "primitive jungle tribesmen" known as the 'negritos' - also referred nowadays as the "Orang Asli".

FYI - Yunnan was located at the fringe of the Chinese Empire and was 'absorbed' into China as a province only in 109 AD during the Han Dynasty.

I didn't say all Malays were Orang Laut.

Didn't i say i was talking about it generally? If you wanna talk about migrating descendants there are loads of theory.

Thanks for the enlightenment.