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Singapore should not be established as an English country. A epidemic shows that a long -term war -resistant war is far from English alone.

On March 10th, the remarks of Lianhe Morning Post published the reply from Bi Danxing, Secretary -General of the Workers' Party, responded to my column article last week, clarified my "song solution", explained that he was integrated into the local society for new immigrants into the local society.The point of view of his "English Test" also justified.

He said that the Ministry of Manpower had previously required a new helper to pass the English test, but now it is changed to "local life courses" replacement.He ignored that the helper came to find a job, not applying for immigration, and the application of immigrants or permanent residents who had worked in local work and prepared to bring investment and manufacturing opportunities could not be compared.It is not necessary to consider those applications that cannot meet the basic conditions. "English testing" is more in this way.

Bidan Xing expressed his position that he denied that Singapore was a "English country".This position declares the most important thing to the interests of its party.English is a communication language between Singapore's administrative language and the communication between various ethnic groups, but no matter how good the Singaporean speaks of English, it cannot be compared with Americans, British or Australians.

In the past few days, Yang Rongwen, a former foreign minister who was released recently, visited the Chinese version of the condensate (1). There are many topics in the book.Yang Rongwen clearly opposed English as a single language in Singapore.

He said: "When the Westerners praise us for English, we are embarrassed." What he felt "embarrassed" was that Westerners could speak fluent English when they thought Singaporeans spoke their mother tongueIt is really amazing.

In continental Europe, people can speak two or three languages, such as French, German, and English are rare. It is no wonder that Westerners have such "beautiful misunderstandings" about Singaporeans.

If the Singaporean government aims to pursue English as a single language and establish a "English country" in Southeast Asia, it will have a huge impact on education, society, and immigration policies.

Singapore should not be established as an English country. A epidemic shows that a long -term war -resistant war is far from English alone.

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The government released about 90 pages of Singapore on Wednesday (March 8) to respond to the white paper in the crown disease to review the desirable and deficiencies in Singapore's anti -epidemic process.It is advisable to include vaccination, keep the supply chain unblocked, and have a high degree of mutual trust in the country; inadequate, such as the treatment of the guest dormitory epidemic, and not flexible in implementing safety management measures.

The review of the review of the White Paper has nothing to do with it. "National mutual trust" is also the advantage that the political leadership has said the most in the past year.

During the three -year resistance period, the government makes full use of multi -language channels to publish news through various Chinese newspapers, mobile phone SMS, TV, radio broadcasting and other media every day; many ministers also on the publicity front line, with various dialects and various dialects and dialects and various dialects and dialects and dialects and dialectsChinese people communicate, explain various epidemic prevention measures, improve people's understanding of crown diseases, and prevent false news from confusing people.

At the time of crisis, Singapore can also have some outstanding bilingual politicians who are enough to "be in danger". It is a rare phenomenon to make anti -epidemic education videos for fluent dialects.

The diversity of Singapore society has not become a negative factor that hinders the unity of the Chinese people, and also confirms that Singapore cannot move in a single -language society.

Attracting foreign immigrants is a long -term policy. Foreign immigrants will introduce new languages and cultural elements. They may also enter the social values and belief issues that are incompatible with the local society at the same time.

Yang Rongwen revealed in the above book that once a while, when the Singapore members of the parliament were eating together, Muslims and non -Muslims separated different tables.Therefore, it was later changed to a buffet, which was placed separately, unreasonable and vegetarian.

This kind of encouraging different religious people regardless of you and me, dining at the same table to go deep into the people. The hawker center and coffee shop are the best portrayal.

The shelf of recycling tableware is also halal and non -halal.Muslims can compromise in this regard and dine at the same table with non -Muslims.As soon as we know the long embankment, we know that the two sides of the strait are a strong contrast.

The tolerance culture is a learning process even for people who grow in Singapore's diverse society.For example, I used to bring my own lunch box occasionally and pack food at the Malay stall, but I was rejected when I had to pack Malay meals, saying that they had to use their packaging and could not use my lunch box.At first, I felt a bit unreasonable, and later realized that the tableware that the Chinese came with may offend the "holy" of halal food.After the matter, long one wisdom, the religious sensitivity of Muslims may vary from person to person.

The integration of foreign immigrants has been the topic of government and social concerns for many years. Wealthy businessmen from China know how much to know about local Malay and Indians, and whether it is sensitive to the taboos of halal food; white -collar workers from India in India; white -collar workers from India;How to get along with many local Indian ethnic groups under the surname of India under the surname of India, etc., is a test of new immigrants.

New immigrants must be integrated into the local society. Language is not a big obstacle. The greater test lies in their sensitivity to race and religion.

In terms of maintaining the diversity of society, Singapore still has a lot of room for improvement, such as strengthening the use of multi -language use in public places.It can be seen that the government is working hard, and a epidemic should make the government understand more about our advantages, not a disadvantage.

Zeng Yuancang, an economist in Singapore, who is teaching in Hong Kong, must be known in English in the column of the new newspaper on March 3?The end of the end said, "... We don't know if you only understand that English and English are still enough in Singapore?" In fact, today's international situation is obvious, but we don't have to wait for 30 or three years.

Only the world in the world is the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, which are English -speaking countries such as fakes, and even India and the Philippines are not qualified.As the illusion of "English countries", Singapore may be the psychological factors that the young parents of local young parents give up their mother tongue and use English as a family language. They think that children only understand English and speak English."English testing" for immigration applications can only promote this illusion. The sooner Singapore gets rid of the confusion of this illusion, the better.

(the author is a special commentator in Lianhe Zaobao)