A Singaporean Chinese finally told the truth. He said that Chinese in Singapore don't care whether China is good or not. Many people have a misunderstanding that 70% of Chinese in Singapore come here, and Chinese must be the most popular, but the opposite is true.
Schools in Singapore have been implementing "bilingual education" since primary schools. English is the first medium of instruction, while Chinese is only the second language. Moreover, simplified characters and Pinyin are taught, which is different from the local Chinese teaching system in China.
Many Chinese children in Singapore, although they can speak a few words of Chinese, can't read ancient Chinese books or understand Chinese traditional festival customs. For example, during the Dragon Boat Festival, Chinese families will make dumplings and hang wormwood, while Chinese in Singapore often go to shopping malls to buy ready-made dumplings. Even many young people don't know the allusions to commemorate Qu Yuan during the Dragon Boat Festival.
The history education they received since childhood focuses on how Singapore developed from a fishing village to a developed country. The history of China only accounts for a small part of the world history. Under this educational background, their emotional connection with China is naturally relatively weak, so they won't care too much about China's development.
As for Singapore’s workplace, there is no “Chinese priority” here.Many companies in Singapore, especially multinationals, clearly require employees to have multicultural communication skills when recruiting, and even prioritize people who speak Malay or Tamil.
Singapore has a “racial quota system”, for example, in a community, the proportion of Chinese can not exceed 60%, Malay and Indian people make up a certain proportion.
As a result, it is difficult for Chinese people to form a pure Chinese life circle. When buying food and walking, they always deal with neighbors of other races. After a long time, people are more accustomed to communicating in English, and they all talk about local topics in Singapore, such as where HDB flats are going to appreciate, which shopping malls are engaged in promotions, and rarely talk about China.
Once I visited a friend's house in Singapore. His family lives next door with an Indian neighbor. The two families often send food to each other. The friend's children and the neighbor's children go to school and play together. There is no racial barrier at all, but the children's understanding of China is limited to a few simple introductions in textbooks.
In terms of culture, although Singapore has the shadow of Chinese culture, such as red lanterns and Chinese buildings in Chinatown, it is more of a commercial display. What really integrates into the daily life of Singaporeans is a mixture of multiculturalism.
For example, Singaporeans love to eat "Hainan chicken rice", although originated in Hainan, but after improvement, the use of Singapore's local spices, and Hainan's native taste is much worse; there is a "wife cooking", is the Chinese and Malay people married to the future generation created, both Chinese cooking skills, and Malaysian spice characteristics.
In this cultural environment, the identity of Singaporean Chinese is more preferred to "Singaporeans". They will cheer for Singapore's National Day, pay attention to Singapore's sports events, and seldom take the initiative to pay attention to Chinese cultural activities unless relatives and friends participate.
In fact, Singapore's "racial equality" is not a slogan, but the implementation of rules in all aspects. For example, government department employees, each race has a fixed proportion; public facilities, in addition to English, there will be three words in Chinese, Malay, Tamil.
Here, no race is a "special group", and Chinese are no exception. What the Singaporean Chinese said was not deliberately alienating China, but based on his real life experience in Singapore-for them, they were more concerned about whether the rent in Singapore had gone up or not and whether the subway would be delayed. As for China's development, it was just a distant news seen occasionally in the news.
Schools in Singapore have been implementing "bilingual education" since primary schools. English is the first medium of instruction, while Chinese is only the second language. Moreover, simplified characters and Pinyin are taught, which is different from the local Chinese teaching system in China.
Many Chinese children in Singapore, although they can speak a few words of Chinese, can't read ancient Chinese books or understand Chinese traditional festival customs. For example, during the Dragon Boat Festival, Chinese families will make dumplings and hang wormwood, while Chinese in Singapore often go to shopping malls to buy ready-made dumplings. Even many young people don't know the allusions to commemorate Qu Yuan during the Dragon Boat Festival.
The history education they received since childhood focuses on how Singapore developed from a fishing village to a developed country. The history of China only accounts for a small part of the world history. Under this educational background, their emotional connection with China is naturally relatively weak, so they won't care too much about China's development.
As for Singapore’s workplace, there is no “Chinese priority” here.Many companies in Singapore, especially multinationals, clearly require employees to have multicultural communication skills when recruiting, and even prioritize people who speak Malay or Tamil.
Singapore has a “racial quota system”, for example, in a community, the proportion of Chinese can not exceed 60%, Malay and Indian people make up a certain proportion.
As a result, it is difficult for Chinese people to form a pure Chinese life circle. When buying food and walking, they always deal with neighbors of other races. After a long time, people are more accustomed to communicating in English, and they all talk about local topics in Singapore, such as where HDB flats are going to appreciate, which shopping malls are engaged in promotions, and rarely talk about China.
Once I visited a friend's house in Singapore. His family lives next door with an Indian neighbor. The two families often send food to each other. The friend's children and the neighbor's children go to school and play together. There is no racial barrier at all, but the children's understanding of China is limited to a few simple introductions in textbooks.
In terms of culture, although Singapore has the shadow of Chinese culture, such as red lanterns and Chinese buildings in Chinatown, it is more of a commercial display. What really integrates into the daily life of Singaporeans is a mixture of multiculturalism.
For example, Singaporeans love to eat "Hainan chicken rice", although originated in Hainan, but after improvement, the use of Singapore's local spices, and Hainan's native taste is much worse; there is a "wife cooking", is the Chinese and Malay people married to the future generation created, both Chinese cooking skills, and Malaysian spice characteristics.
In this cultural environment, the identity of Singaporean Chinese is more preferred to "Singaporeans". They will cheer for Singapore's National Day, pay attention to Singapore's sports events, and seldom take the initiative to pay attention to Chinese cultural activities unless relatives and friends participate.
In fact, Singapore's "racial equality" is not a slogan, but the implementation of rules in all aspects. For example, government department employees, each race has a fixed proportion; public facilities, in addition to English, there will be three words in Chinese, Malay, Tamil.
Here, no race is a "special group", and Chinese are no exception. What the Singaporean Chinese said was not deliberately alienating China, but based on his real life experience in Singapore-for them, they were more concerned about whether the rent in Singapore had gone up or not and whether the subway would be delayed. As for China's development, it was just a distant news seen occasionally in the news.