Why should we learn from Mandarin language how it is used to
express thoughts in the real Chinese way?
Our dialects ("our real mother tongue") is just as good for us
to express our thoughts in the real Chinese way as our dialects has
been proven to be the direct lineage from the Middle and Old
Chinese.
You saying this sounds like you acknowledge Mandarin but not the
Chinese dialects as the real Chinese way, you are so wrong, so
wrong.
BTW, although in cyber space one's physical properties are
unverifiable, I am not a "She".
Mandarin should be for those who want to learn the language,
whatever their ethnicity.
The Singapore identity should be kept with English the
language for commerce and Singlish and Pasar Malay as the lingua
franca for Singaporeans. This would preserve Singapore's diverse
cultural and ethnic heritage. A Singaporean identity would also
emerge.
China in its moment of madness, had the Red Guards destroyed
most of her heritage. Singapore need not go the same path.
Preservation of the cultural traditions can only bring
about better families and a better nation.
At present a true blue Singaporean can be easily identified as
one who can't speak any language well and has shity manners.
And the one holding a pink NRIC would be Singapore Citizen in
nationality status only, hardly able to speak a sentence in Malay,
and English with a foreign twang.
I guess some thirty years down the road, WikiLeak would come up
with a cable that Singapore's drive to speak Mandarin drive was a
mistake.