Yea they did teach us Melayu ! But my primary school was a
Chinese school so everything teach mainly in Mandarin.
Here the opposite is true. Chinese and other local languages
like malay, tamil are taught as a secondary language while
everything is in english. You can see most signs in Singapore are
in english.
The reason why is because although 75% of Singaporeans are
chinese, they do not hold political power. The power is controlled
by peranakans and the language used by them is english from the
british colonial era.
Lee Kuan Yew, Lee Hsien Loong, Kwa Geok Choo, Lim Yew Hock,
Tony Tan, Wee Kim Wee, Goh Keng Swee, Toh Chin Chye, Lim Kim
San and many others are all peranakans.
And since Lee Kuan Yew fears the political threat from the
chinese in Singapore, the chinese schools must all be destroyed so
that no chinese intellectual can come up from the chinese system to
oppose his plans of anglicising Singapore.
Politics in Singapore cannot be understood without knowing that
political power is controlled by peranakans.
My strongest
language is Mandarin therefore I had a hard time studing in
Singapore when I just came here because everything teach in
English.
You studied in chinese school, your mandarin standard is
better.
We studied in ang moh school, our mandarin standard is shit.
The chinese in Malaysia and Singapore both do not hold power, so
the dominant language in both countries are not chinese. That is
why we should unite not divide.
