Let's not make fun of Tony Tan, mandarin is alien language to
peranakans.
These guys all mandarin standard like fuck, if Lim Chin Siong's
plan to promote mandarin and other local languages succeeded in
1960s, for sure their influence will be weakened.
FOR
the Babas, the significance of the new policy was that they no
longer had the option to elect Malay as a second school language,
but were obliged to study
Mandarin, a language which many of them regarded as rather
alien.
"My
brother thinks the Baba culture is chaotic... it is completely out
of touch. You are a Chinese living in a community of Chinese, so
how to survive?
http://www.asiawind.com/pub/forum/fhakka/mhonarc/msg01319.html
It is now conceded that the
left wing trade unions under Lim
Chin Siong, took a decision early on in support of Malay as the
national language and at the same time arguing
for a reduction in the role of
the English language and the elevation of the languages of the
local communities, principally Chinese
and Tamil. Lim’s role in this has been acknowledged by Usman
and Samad Ismail and others.
http://s-pores.com/2008/01/Usman/
But as usual, making english as dominant was not enough for Lee
Kuan Yew, his extremism dictated the annihilation of all chinese
schools in Singapore.
Even I won't destroy all the english schools, I will still leave
a few open for the peranakans and eurasians.
