I'm a Malay married to a Chinese, and lived in Hong Kong for 18 years. It would be fair to say there are prejudices and judgements from all sides. Perhaps for Singaporeans living through the 60s, 70s life was all about survival, most had to rebuild their lives after Independence, lifting themselves out of poverty, educating their children and at that time the last thing on their minds was being One United People. By the 80s, slowly the awareness and importance of preserving our cultures became apparent. As for being Racist, anyone who hasn't lived outside of their communities would hold some form of generalised prejudice simply because they didn't know better, were not exposed or had the chance to mix with other races, judgements are perpetuated until it becomes accepted. There was a long discussion about MOE SAP schools which exclusively promoted the Chinese culture and language, they totally excluded other races from entry. Life is about moving forward ...... what's important is what type of Singapore do we want to leave behind for our children ? It doesn't matter what race we are or the language we prefer to converse in, it's about being open, kind and inclusive, about being human.
1.4k viewed and only 6 comments and 11 likes? Come on, guys (the 1.3k)... Personally, i like the format of one senior and one young adult exchanging views. Their way of doing it is amenable.
I disagree that older Chinese generation is racist. At our time, we mixed around, hence it was so common to hear other races (especially Indians) spoke in dialect or Mandarin. However, both kids and adults did joke on race, dialect group, etc....to the extend the person of that joke laughed along, and even joked on his/her own race, etc What I noticed is that people are getting very sensitive over such things, and refer every single thing as racist.
Problem is many ppl don’t know or choose not to know what some words mean. “Ang moh” for eg means red hair. But there was this youtube clip with a young student claiming it means red devil 🙄
With the present younger generation of Chinese not knowing their dialects, how to preserve their heritage? How to call themselves Chinese? I will call them Chinese without their roots.
That Poly Tech ENGLISH Pronunciation was POOR The Senior is well balanced his English has good diction. The Point is . SG Education System is not that good as we perceived in STEM which is regurgitating text books which the Chinese pour numerous hours but cannot think out of the box. Socially Chinese in SG are a FLOP. Why???
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