In my view, people who don;t speak chinese language are mostly
two type of people
One, they are bought up in english speaking home environment where
the maid and parents are speaking in english, then when they go to
school, they struggle with the mandarin and they gave up on it,
thinking, what the heck, mandarin is so tough, anyway, the subjects
are all taught in english mostly, as long as my english is good, i
can find a job and study my books.
So this type of people are breed by their parents and the
government who decide to make english the instruction language of
education in schools and this is not their fault. In a practical
sense, Singapore multi racial society, english is our language to
link chinese, malays, indians and other nationality. Beside in
terms of business, alot of countries are english speaking, so that
the rational behind it. I don;t mind these people as long as they
respect their race, their history due to the fact that they are
mostly influenced by circumstances.
However , i feel the second type is a frankly laughable, those who
think that speaking chinese is in their mind " low class" or
"cheena". In my view, these type of people suffer from inferiority
complex. Yes they have a problem with their self identity and self
esteem. They want to be western so bad but they are not but they at
least wanna imitate and get closer. Look, If you want embrace and
learn from other culture, fine, but don't put down and insult
yourself and your race. that's when you close the line between
learning other culture and abandoning your own identity. If you
don't respect yourself, how will you earn other people respect?
Case in point, try going to america and australia and see whether
you want to be proud of yourself as a first class version of
yourself or a second rated wannabe there? So please wake up from
your miserable illusion and grow some backbones and respect for
yourself.
Anyway, to close my post, i am a person who enjoy both english and
chinese equally, i speak whichever is suitable for the listener and
i enjoy both english and chinese entertainment media, why learn one
only when you can have them both? It;s really allow yourself to
experience more in life. On a economic angle, China are slowly
rising up to become the next superpower, it may be a reality that
chinese language will become a internationally used language in the
future.
