11-05-2024, 10:05 PM
(11-05-2024, 07:42 PM)Oyk Wrote: LKY was a Hakka baba lar..Peranakans speak Malay because their father is from China but their mother is a Malay. Children tend to learn to speak whatever their mother speaks and after a few generations, Malay or rather a form of Baba Malay is spoken by baba and nonya. LKY speaking Malay is like your Pritam Singh speaking Punjabi as his mother tongue.
CECA-minded Oyk touched another very interesting FACT - LKY grown up in an environment that was worlds away from a typical Chinese family - never learn, attended nor spoken Hakka nor Mandarin in 1st +30 years of his life.
LKY was more proficient in English, Bahasa Malayu and Japanese...until he witnessing something about the Chinese-educated after he entered politics....
So why did he changed his mind and insist in establishing Bilingualism in SG education system ?
Was it a shrud political move, a cultural awakening or he foresee the rise of China ?
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