If Singapore had not adopted English as the official language, where would the nation be today? Every dialect fighting for their space, Malay vs Chinese vs indians. Business links with the world will be weaker Sri Lanka was a crown colony, equally if not more promising back then. But a series of policy errors, corruption and internal strife did them in.
@@elderchief8576At least Bombay my hometown But our city is ruled by goons from the hinterland who use the Marathi language to show their strength and bully the citizens of Bombay
Powerful, LKY sounded like ancient emperor in China speaking to his subjects using Middle Chinese language, which probably similar to hokkian or teo chew 😁
It's very impressive and humbling to hear LKY addressed himself 小弟 in Hokkien ... Wha Lao He Shibei Sut ... I think that speech would have drawn lots of vote from the ah Beng ah Seng ah Lian ah Hui of the time, his hokkien very the Dok Kong
If Mr Lee has been born elsewhere or in different era. Singapore will be very much different. Just look around South east asia. Thinking of Lim Yew Hock reminds me of the corruption striven Singapore.
I was there , young n stupid, who never believed that history in the making....lunch time , watching n listening but not really understood the significance of the moment.....
but you are there during lunch time to watch and listen. A lot of CBD workers now will not go and watch when PAP has a rally. They will "have more important things to do"
@@BumbleBee-bc7vs, it’s interesting to see how SG politics had evolved to reflect the mood on the ground, the leaders are all quite different in their own ways
@@kokkintang9983means "your father", as in the person saying that is referring to himself as being "your father". I wouldn't exactly say it's rude, it's just coarse and uncouth since it's not necessarily used as an insult towards the other subject of the conversation.
Was he doing this to show Lim Chin Siong - the Ong Teng Cheong of the day who was very popular with the Hokkien langs - he too could speak Hokkien? Just curious.
P S oh,come on! We know that the most of young Hokkien generation can’t speak Hokkien language fluently, that means Hokkien already became a dying language in Singapore. Maybe just exists in some bad wrods in the future.
When LKY went to Taiwan, he visited the countryside together with Taiwan’s then President Chiang Jing Guo. When Chiang saw LKY speaking to the Taiwanese farmers in the Hokkien dialect, he was shocked and said, the Prime Minister of Singapore could communicate with my people in Hokkien, yet I had no idea what they were talking about.
Lee Kuan Yew only started learning Hokkien (and Mandarin even later) in midlife ages way later than English and Malay. For his age as a new external learner speaker, this was already quite good. His wife Kwa Geok Choo herself being a Hokkien helped him a lot! Hokkien is just so deep into Singaporeans' blood and heritage that even Lee Kuan Yew's reign power can never minimize this dialect's popularity to make way promoting Mandarin!
Oh yeah, his opponents and subordinates who had fallen out with him have felt the effects of his "powder" 🤣😂 For better or for worse, Singapore is where it is today because of LKY's laser-like focus on advancing its interests. 👋👍
nobody now in singapore parliament can speak like this , only 1 guy come close , thats Chan Chun Sing with his " Ke Chiu " !! + " Sia Suay " , but unfortunately didnt do too well in advancing his own image .
Later on he sucked up to Deng Xiaoping and banned Hokkien. Mandarin, a language invented by Turkic conquerors of China, became prominent instead. Han Chinese indigenous to Swatow also forced to speak it.
He banned during the Mao era, because for unity and also getting rid of communism. There is an Intel leak from Taiwan where he had a chat with Zhou Enlai explaining why he did that. As for why he opt for Mandarin, because he saw it coming that China with it's Mandarin will be a powerful economic force. This is better rather than seeing Singapore rot like Hong Kong because they are arrogant with their dialect. Anyway, Hokkien culture is also influenced by the Turkic conquerors of China via the Sui and Tang dynasty.
@@LEEeechoy-er9omsingapore easier , more hokkiens ppl, malaysia although a lot of hokkiens , in fact hokkiens majority among chinese, but klang valley mostly dominated by cantonese... so singapore easier to shape a hokkien speaking society
Peter Q .... I m sure u r also a Chinese.... touch your heart ... r u feeling ashamed to speak mandarin ?.... we human r all kiasu people ,... nowadays the younger generations speaking a lot of English instead of mother tongue ... Angmo big stick is it ?...
You are talking present...I am talking at the time I live that era...this Bastarda a Coward & Traitor manage to CONvince the lowly or Mandarin-Dialect educated to follow him, yes to a future created by a Group of dedicated leaders, him being the Big Mouth do the talking but claiming all the credit...if there is anyone who thinks "angmoh" tua kee it is that Bastard lah!!!...all his Nationalist Bullshit and Patriotism is basically Self Interest...todays political scene is OBVIOUS he succeded in his self interest to create a Dynasty at the EXPENSE of Nationalist and Patriots and those he CONNED...the name suit him like a hand in GLOVE...Lie Con You!!!
For your INFORMATION he removed Dialects purely b'cos he is ASHAME of his Dialect and used the removal of Dialect to promote Mandarin as an EXCUSE of his COWARDICE & TRUTH typical of an ArseHole class ONE!!!
and he deprived you young Singaporeans of this wonderful topolect called Hokkien via the linguicide called speak mandarin campaign. Don't think it is possible to express this in Mandarin. Such a loss.
"such a loss" dumbass! Nobody speaks Hokkien anymore except for old people and gangsters! Sure it's fine if you want to learn it, but Hokkien has no future, and even he acknowledges it! He was willing to accept that fact and let it go! He know what to sacrifice unlike you, and that is why Singapore prospered
He was simply saying, My fellow sporeans, young and old, in the upcoming year 2020 elections, the time has come. The opposition party will become the new ruling party for Spore. No more 9%GST, no more Foreigners, jobs secured for all s'poreans, No more ERP, No more COE, full withdrawal of CPF for 55 years old! Abolish the 99years lease for HDB.. lets welcome freehold land HDB. Together, the new Opposition party will make spore great again! Believe! Merdeka! Huat ah!
All these commentaries praising Lee Kuan Yew are ridiculous. It’s a known fact he was a prominent member of the triads and Singapore today is a dead society
