China, India???
"Singapore wants to encourage more tourists from China to visit. To do so, the Singapore Tourism Board plans to deepen and strengthen the preception of Singapore as a holiday destination "beyond being known as a nice place". The STB will launch its "Uniquely Singapore" marketing blitz in Beijing next week. I hopes to attract 770 000chinese..."
That's it, we are doomed. Singapore is too much a weakling. Yes, I know that China Market is booming, but there is no call for launching campaigns to attract them or suck up to them. It's not like I am unhappy being a Singaporean but I am losing faith in the government. Giving in and sucking up to the Chinese means that we are going to let them critise or being wrongly accused of things we are innocent of. The worse part is to take their words kindly as if we are guilty of doing those stuff!
Instead of bootlicking them, why don't we focus on something that benefits us, like learning Chinese. Now that Chinese is no longer a requirement to enter university, what does that make of us? I can't stress more on how languages are important to us. Speaking Singlish is already enough for misinterpretation, now many of the next generation are going to have problem with Mandarain too! Great! Then we shall use the international sign language to communicate in future.
I have always admired the way my parents communicate in Malay with neighbours and wish that we can learn more. (Thank God I did Malay.) Even dialects! But look at what the government is doing to our mother tongue..
Right now, India is booming too. So does it mean that fellow Indians need not learn their native language but launch more programmes to attract them to Singapore. Well done, then the whole Singapore will be packed with Chinese and Indians. Jeez~ And Singapore would smell wonderful... 770 000 chinese and probably 880 000 indians,
well done Singapore...
Jacqueline
1:50 PM
