My friend is from elitish family, dad is Shanghainese
businessman.
Should be suppressed if true. Probably influenced from west.
This is one reason I deeply despise Harry Lee Kuan Yew. I have no
sympathy, no mercy whatsoever towards that fucking anglophile
bastard.
The left wing
support for the use of Malay as the national language and the
common lingua franca, created a strong surge of
interest for the learning of Malay.
This momentum was accelerated after 1959, when widespread classes
for Malay in night schools, adult education centres and private
tuition was widespread and extensive.
This movement for the study of Malay declined after Singapore left
Malaysia after 1965.
Since then, the
island republic had gone on
to embrace the English language with a new fervour and intensity,
bringing in its wake the widespread dissemination of western
values, culture and mores.
The impact
on Singapore society was so
profound, that
in the nineties a debate to emphasize on the superiority of Asian
values was initiated to counter the trend.
http://s-pores.com/2008/01/Usman/
