Mother tongue weighting in PSLE could be cut - ST Headlines
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Originally posted by angel7030:
I hv no doubt that few centuries later, some peoples will be worshipping LKY instead of General Kuan
zomg~
I ish still sarport kuan gong
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maybe bet on toto
also must pray to LKY?
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Originally posted by Fuck PAP & Lee Kuan Yew:
Three-fourths of Singapore's 2.1 million citizens are Chinese, the rest Malays, Indians and Pakistanis.
A fervid believer in the merits of Western-style education, the Cambridge-educated Prime Minister had been under fire from Nanyang Siang Pan for allegedly downgrading Chinese language and culture in the schools.
Three-fourths of Singapore's 2.1 million citizens are Chinese
Another Ztreyier talk again.Chinese will never be the common patois of Singapore as it will bring in racial and dialect politics.
Which part of nah beh chee bye Chinese will not be common language of Singapore you do not understand?
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The newly established PAP decided to contest the elections on 2 April 1955 in four constituencies. The four were, Lee Kuan Yew (Tanjong Pagar), Goh Chew Chua (Punggol-Tampines), C.V. Devan Nair (Farrer Park) and Lim Chin Siong (Bukit Timah). It was then when the beacon of Lim Chin Siong shined brighter than Lee Kuan Yew’s. James Puthucheary, who was in charge of PAP publicity for the elections recalled the first rally held in a remote Chinese village.
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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.
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Originally posted by Herzog_Zwei:
Chinese will never be the common patois of Singapore as it will bring in racial and dialect politics.
Biggest bullshit I have ever heard in my life.
Then what about China?
You are truly and completely a hopeless fellow in politics.
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Originally posted by ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~:
zomg~ I ish still sarport kuan gong
and some guys will go into trance and protray himself as LKY...with a big PAP logo on his head -
Originally posted by Fuck PAP & Lee Kuan Yew:
Biggest bullshit I have ever heard in my life.
Then what about China?
You are truly and completely a hopeless fellow in politics.
You can always ask if a Malay wants to pray in Mandarin or Tamil willing to read bank statements in Chinese.I don't care about politics if the common people suffer.
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In an interview, Tan Kong Wee told me that he and other Babas realised their "Chineseness" during the Japanese Occupation: "The Japanese did not discriminate between the Peranakan and the China-Chinese. I remember my fellow Peranakans were shocked because they suddenly realised that there was one thing missing. They did not know their roots. "They could not speak Chinese. They said: 'The Japanese called me a Chinese. But all along, I would say I'm not a Chinese. I was 11 years old... it dawned upon me that I am a Chinese. For this, I have to thank the Japanese.' "Although Tan's realisation may not have been shared by many Babas (the Japanese, in fact, distinguished between the Straits Chinese and the China-born Chinese, at least for the collection of the $50 million "gift" extorted by the Japanese), it is a fact that the Chinese-speaking Chinese were becoming more influential and insulted the Babas mainly because of their inability to speak "Chinese".Consequently, many Babas made an effort to learn "Chinese". Whereas many English-educated Babas re-emphasised their allegiance to the British Empire and were afraid that full independence might harm their still privileged position, the vast majority of Chinese-educated Chinese were vehemently anti-colonial and anti-imperialist.Despite some signs of "resinicisation", many Babas tended to reciprocate the insults and teasing of the non-Baba Chinese by calling them "country bumpkins" and low-class guests. With the increased ambiguity of the status of the Babas, many of them neither dared to admit they were Babas nor spoke Baba Malay in public. The days of Baba Malay as an inter-group language of commercial value were also gone, and Baba Malay stagnated and became confined to the domestic domain.http://www.asiawind.com/pub/forum/fhakka/mhonarc/msg01319.html
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Originally posted by Herzog_Zwei:
You can always ask if a Malay wants to pray in Mandarin or Tamil willing to read bank statements in Chinese.I don't care about politics if the common people suffer.
More rubbish from you. Malaysian chinese can speak MALAY.
What about them?
Three-fourths of Singapore's 2.1 million citizens are Chinese, the rest Malays, Indians and Pakistanis.
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Originally posted by Fuck PAP & Lee Kuan Yew:
More rubbish from you. Malaysian chinese can speak MALAY.
What about them?
Three-fourths of Singapore's 2.1 million citizens are Chinese, the rest Malays, Indians and Pakistanis.
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Originally posted by Herzog_Zwei:
Malay malay speak what? KNNBCCB.
KNNXXCXD, that's Hokkien, am i right, so malay speaks hokkien now -
Originally posted by Herzog_Zwei:
Malay malay speak what? KNNBCCB.hopeless.
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agreed
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Originally posted by Fuck PAP & Lee Kuan Yew:
hopeless.
You are the only hopeless one, still studying quantum physics in chinese then. -
also agreed
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After his education in Britain, Lee Kuan Yew returned to Singapore in 1949 to practise as a lawyer in the law firm Laycock and Ong.He became the honorary legal adviser for several trade unions after being acquainted with their leaders (in 1951) and subsequently caught the public eye in February 1952, when the Postal Workers Union succeeded, with his guidance, in obtaining important concessions from the colonial government.
According to his memoirs and this website, Lee Kuan Yew then proceeded to form the PAP with the help of the communists. Yet these sources conveniently neglect to mention Lee Kuan Yew's involvement in the Singapore Progressive Party in the 1951 legislative elections. In fact, Lee acted as the election agent for his boss John Laycock, helping him to manage his campaign and canvass on his behalf. (See here and here for proof) He had thus entered into politics even before he became involved in the trade unions' dispute with the British. (Polling day for the 1951 legislative elections was on 10 April, we can assume that his political activities with the SPP started months before that)
If I may speculate, LKY joined the SPP initially to build up his political career there. However when the Rendel Constitution expanded the electoral rolls to include all local-born as voters, resulting in a significant increase in Chinese voters, LKY decided to jump ship and formed the PAP in 1954 because he saw that the SPP lacked the support of the Chinese working class. (So the next time LKY condemns politicians who change political parties, you know where he's coming from)
Yet the problem isn't solely that LKY jumped ship and didn't care to tell anyone about his great experience in his memoirs. The bigger problem lies in the fact that LKY supported the SPP despite the fact that it was A) pro-British in both its policies and in its composition of members (mostly English-speaking upper class professionals) B) unsupportive of achieving independence (it merely paid lip-service to the idea by declaring in October 1952, its objective of Singapore achieving independence through a Singapore-Malaya merger without setting a target date)
LKY's miraculous change of heart on these issues when he joined the PAP only demonstrates how the pursuit of power can sometimes make one very flexible about their beliefs. Unfortunately for us, this flexibility of LKY's did not extend to the area of political freedoms.http://us.asiancorrespondent.com/secret-blog/2009/09/is-lee-kuan-yew-more-interested-in.html
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Endangered species? For goodness sake, Lee Kuan Yew practically filled the entire cabinet with inbred Peranakans. For the last few decades in Singapore, the top positions in civil service, statutory boards, armed forces, GLCs have all along been going disproportionately to the Peranakans. That is one reason why Singapore has been run to the ground.
Lee Kuan Yew worked with the Japanese Kempeitai and later the British colonizers to suppress the non-Peranakan Chinese. That's why he has always been wary of non-Peranakan Chinese and could only entrust power to his own family members and his other Peranakan cronies.
http://tomorrow.sg/archives/2009/02/17/peranakans__going_the_way_of_the.html
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hmmm...ncie one Uncle, so, last time LKY also laycock for people hor.. i wonder what is that??
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Originally posted by Fuck PAP & Lee Kuan Yew:
After his education in Britain, Lee Kuan Yew returned to Singapore in 1949 to practise as a lawyer in the law firm Laycock and Ong.He became the honorary legal adviser for several trade unions after being acquainted with their leaders (in 1951) and subsequently caught the public eye in February 1952, when the Postal Workers Union succeeded, with his guidance, in obtaining important concessions from the colonial government.
According to his memoirs and this website, Lee Kuan Yew then proceeded to form the PAP with the help of the communists. Yet these sources conveniently neglect to mention Lee Kuan Yew's involvement in the Singapore Progressive Party in the 1951 legislative elections. In fact, Lee acted as the election agent for his boss John Laycock, helping him to manage his campaign and canvass on his behalf. (See here and here for proof) He had thus entered into politics even before he became involved in the trade unions' dispute with the British. (Polling day for the 1951 legislative elections was on 10 April, we can assume that his political activities with the SPP started months before that)
If I may speculate, LKY joined the SPP initially to build up his political career there. However when the Rendel Constitution expanded the electoral rolls to include all local-born as voters, resulting in a significant increase in Chinese voters, LKY decided to jump ship and formed the PAP in 1954 because he saw that the SPP lacked the support of the Chinese working class. (So the next time LKY condemns politicians who change political parties, you know where he's coming from)
Yet the problem isn't solely that LKY jumped ship and didn't care to tell anyone about his great experience in his memoirs. The bigger problem lies in the fact that LKY supported the SPP despite the fact that it was A) pro-British in both its policies and in its composition of members (mostly English-speaking upper class professionals) B) unsupportive of achieving independence (it merely paid lip-service to the idea by declaring in October 1952, its objective of Singapore achieving independence through a Singapore-Malaya merger without setting a target date)
LKY's miraculous change of heart on these issues when he joined the PAP only demonstrates how the pursuit of power can sometimes make one very flexible about their beliefs. Unfortunately for us, this flexibility of LKY's did not extend to the area of political freedoms.http://us.asiancorrespondent.com/secret-blog/2009/09/is-lee-kuan-yew-more-interested-in.html
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SINGAPORE: Test of Strength
In Singapore, bastion of British strength in Southeast Asia, the Communists at last felt strong enough to attack in the open. For months they had worked to infiltrate the local Chinese, who make up 80% of the city's 1,200,000 population.
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Originally posted by Fuck PAP & Lee Kuan Yew:
SINGAPORE: Test of Strength
Monday, Jun. 27, 1955In Singapore, bastion of British strength in Southeast Asia, the Communists at last felt strong enough to attack in the open. For months they had worked to infiltrate the local Chinese, who make up 80% of the city's 1,200,000 population.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,823811,00.htmlSo the farker just cannot accept that the world's major scientific papers are written in english nowadays.
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HOWEVER, there were early warning signs of the Babas' loss of influence.
Eventually, with the waning British influence, the failure of the secessionists, the death of conservative "Baba politics" and the rapid rise of the People's Action Party which led to self-rule in 1959, the Babas reached the second crucial turning-point in their social history.
This usually ignored turning-point was marked by self-rule and the takeover by the PAP.
Although leading members of the PAP, such as Lee Kuan Yew, Dr Toh Chin Chye and Dr Goh Keng Swee, were publicly described as English-educated Babas, the Babas as a group were openly belittled as "deculturalised".
http://www.asiawind.com/pub/forum/fhakka/mhonarc/msg01319.html
Lee Kuan Yew worked with the Japanese Kempeitai and later the British colonizers to suppress the non-Peranakan Chinese.
That's why he has always been wary of non-Peranakan Chinese and could only entrust power to his own family members and his other Peranakan cronies.
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Serving British interests
“Now, from all the already released records in London as well as other historical researches, it is clear that in launching Operation Cold Store, Lee Kuan Yew was serving the then strategic interests of Britain which wanted Singapore to continue to provide a forward military base in Southeast Asia,” said Lim.
“It is also now an undeniable fact that Lee worked earlier for the Japanese military during the Occupation making Britain’s English materials available in Japanese-language for the occupiers,” he added.http://singaporerebel.blogspot.com/2007_07_01_archive.html
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Uncle, bet you are the greatest fan of LKY
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Originally posted by Fuck PAP & Lee Kuan Yew:
Serving British interests
“Now, from all the already released records in London as well as other historical researches, it is clear that in launching Operation Cold Store, Lee Kuan Yew was serving the then strategic interests of Britain which wanted Singapore to continue to provide a forward military base in Southeast Asia,” said Lim.
“It is also now an undeniable fact that Lee worked earlier for the Japanese military during the Occupation making Britain’s English materials available in Japanese-language for the occupiers,” he added.http://singaporerebel.blogspot.com/2007_07_01_archive.html
Please rename yourself as the Singapore Idiot.
So far, have you tried studying any of the sciences in Chinese? If you havn't please do try.