Agreed. I thought Mandarin is all the rage nowadays in
Singapore, Hong Kong, and in the West as well. Read that Chinese
Language is offered even in some American High Schools as an
elective.
And I thought those who can't speak Chinese in Singapore are looked
down by others, not the other way around.
I came from a Malay medium school, and speak Hokkien and Cantonese
at home, so my Mandarin sucks. Really feel handicap sometimes when
I could not reply in Mandarin to taxi drivers' queries or food
sellers at hawker's centres.
