Could be due to the artificial divide imposed by Lee Kuan Yew.
That is divide up the population of Singapore into english speakers
and non english speakers.
Speak ang moh are the elite, professionals, rich, highly
educated. Lee Kuan Yew is a peranakan, he belongs to the english
speakers.
Speak non english are the gangsters, lowly educated, blue
collar, poor, useless etc.
Other countries, you white collar, blue collar or red collar,
elite, non elite, all speak the SAME language. Those who don't
speak the dominant language are people from minority groups.
But SIngapore We MAJORITY
speak MINORITY
language. This is the problem.
This problem should be tackled head on.
As a
`non-Asian' language, English is `neutral' to every racialised
Singaporean. (15) As it
has to be learned as a `foreign' tongue by all, everyone
supposedly competes, at school
or work, on an equal footing, through their acquired skill in
the English language.
That English is a `neutral'
language is, of course, an ideological illusion.
Since
Singapore was a British colony for 150 years, English was already a common
language
among the privileged local
population who worked for the colonial
administration
and whose children had access to
the limited opportunities of learning the
language.
This included the first
generation of political leaders who, as English
speakers, had
access to British university education immediately after the
second world war. The
ideological promotion of English as a `neutral' language to all
ethnic Asian children
has suppressed this class dimension. The political utility of
this illusory `neutrality' is
that it enables the state to articulate, in English, its own
interests distinctly, apart from
the interests of all racial groups. It also
effects a separation of state/national
interests
from those of the racial
majority, and prevents state/national
interests from being
captured by the racial majority. The
position of monolingual Chinese
speakers
illustrates this
http://lukdomen.narod.ru/questia-geopol.pdf
Please lah not everything into LKY and racial things and
assumption.
Look things in nature and you can absolve a lot of problems.
