Wow. I see plenty of cases of myopia and ingrate already. Just
wow, chill, relax, show some gratitude and due respect to the
man.
I think TS has misconstrued the linked article to say that
Mandarin is going to be the official language of Singaporean, where
I believe LKY meant Singaporean Chinese, who speak Canto, Hokkien
and the various dialects, and where some are just not so fluent in
Mandarin.
Anyway, I don;t see how Mandarin will be the mother tongue of a
Malay, an Indian, an Eurasian -- because its just not logical.
Malays speak malay, Indian speak tamil, and eurasian, well they
speak whatever they want to.
Yes the Malays will speak Malay, the Indians will speak their
language, so will the Eurasians. They will also speak English,
and and inevitably patois Mandarin.
Singapore is in South East Asia, it is nowhere near China.
Vietnam, Laos are closer to China, and they are not being
Sino-nised. It is chauvinism that moves Singapore towards
adopting Mandarin. This is in total disregard for the Malay
Archipelago. Under the call to maintain social harmony, some
out-of-bound markers were set in political/social discussions.
This gave the government the opportunity to advance their inherent
agenda, which is blatantly obvious, but can't be
discussed.
We have suspected the gradual conversion of Singapore into
a Chinese state some time ago. This was vehemently denied of
course. Now we know that it was intended all along that the process
be evolvd to what was desired.
The unintended consequences will be
that Singapore will be sieged.
Are the USA and PRC intended to be our big brothers?
We should think deeper, rather than just bellyache and scrape
the surface.
