$inkapore is neither a nation, nor a country, nor a city
nor...... don know wat sia.......
This is what happens when you get a cultureless person like
Harry Lee Kuan Yew to build a nation state full of dialect
chinese.
It can only fail.
There were two groups. One group can succeed in nation building.
The other group was doomed to fail.
The group that was doomed to fail came to power.
James Puthucheary, who was in charge of PAP publicity for the
elections recalled the first rally held in a remote Chinese
village.
“Toh Chin Chye spoke first, in
English! No response from the crowd. Ong Eng
Guan was next, in Hokkien, but not very good. The crowd was
restless. Then,
Chin Siong stood up. He was brilliant and the crowd was
spellbound.”
“One man emerged from
this election as a powerful public speaker. He was young, slim, of
medium height, with a soft face but a ringing voice that flowed
beautifully in his native Hokkien. The girls adored him, especially
those in the trade union. Apart from Chinese culture, his themes
were the downtrodden workers, the wicked imperialists, the
Emergency Regulations that suppressed the rights of the masses,
free speech and free association. Once he got going after a cold
start at the first two meetings, there was tremendous applause
every time he spoke. By the end of the campaign, Lim Chin Siong was
seen as a charismatic figure and a person to be reckoned with in
Singapore politics and, what was of more immediate concern, within
the PAP.”
