Singapore's politics has been very lively recently, and the folk jokes of the candidate about the presidential election are even more basketball.
There are different spirits of laugher the old and young, criticizing English, and questioning people.The most absolute is: "Don't think about it, vote for Darman. We will have Ah NEH (President) and Ano NE (Mrs. President)."
The former Minister of State and Politics and Social Policy, Shang Daman, is India, and half of the Japanese descent -his father is Japanese, mother and Chinese.Mrs. Shang can speak Chaozhou dialect, but Japanese is not good.Although the aforementioned jokes bring racial discrimination, the tendency of voting for foreign candidates is obvious.
Among the three qualified candidates, Shang Daman is undoubtedly the most complete and the most complete and most important one on the international stage.The most obvious difference between him and the other two candidates is skin tone.Fortunately, in this presidential election, no one has played the ethnic cards publicly, and the ethnicity calls for the "people" to vote.
Instant racism in a diverse society.With the ability of Shangdanman, the opponent's playing race cards not only can't grab the ticket, but also may cause the recoil to rebound and hurt himself.
The results of the six states held by the neighboring countries last week. Once the multi -society lits the gunpowder of racial politics, democratic elections and political party politics have been completely abducted.
The governing alliance led by Prime Minister Anhua is terrible for the Malay votes. It is completely crushed by the national alliance composed of the Witch Party. Although it maintains the proportion of three -to -three state seats, the ruling prestige has been severely damaged.Anhua also spoke very white in the public speech. If the racial solid system was abolished immediately, the government of the ruling alliance would soon collapse. The results of the state election proved that he was completely correct.
Chinese voters tend to vote for the Democratic Party's ruling alliance, and Malay voted to the national alliance dominated by the witch party.There is no way to look back on racial politics. It is not necessary for racial religious issues to arouse hatred, or loses the votes and lose their politics.
"Father of Gasist" Mahathir said on Twitter in July that if all Chinese people use Malay as their mother tongue, retain some ancient culture of Nyonya, and at the same time go to the national school, and Ma MaThere is no racial politics to study together with indigenous people.
This is the savvy instead of Lao Ma is good at remarks. It is full of sandwichism. It is not my ethnic group or foreigners. If the foreign people want to retain their own ethnic culture, they are troublesome makers.The biggest trouble source.
The mother tongue of Chinese is Chinese.But the Chinese living in the Southeast Asian area do n’t have to learn Malay, including Singapore, which is accounted for by Chinese.
Learn the language of alien compatriots, the most practical use is to increase communication and pull into distance.With the "tall" statement of Shangdanman, "promoting deeper mutual respect between the people."In an exclusive interview with Lianhe Morning Post, he encouraged Singaporeans to master the ability of basic Chinese and Malay sessions, and the author agreed.
Staying at home during the epidemic period, intermittently took about a year and a half of Indonesian language, which benefited a lot.When I met the Malay neighbors at the elevator, I was barely understanding the keywords when I went to Indonesia to learn diving.
Studying motivation energy in a business trip, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Brunei reporters to accommodate Singaporeans who do not understand Malay, and they have to talk about English when eating at the table.The sense of freedom when everyone talked to rise, disappearing in an instant when converting into English.What makes me even more embarrassed is that some people do not ask, isn't Singapore's Mandarin Malay?
When Singapore obtained a complete autonomy at the end of the 1950s, Malayati once emerged. There was a generation of people who were fortunate to learn Malay on campus, and social passion embraced Malay.After leaving Malaysia's independence in 1965, English gradually led the show. Although Malay was retained as a Mandarin, there were fewer and fewer non -Malay people with his ability to listen to lectures.
During the period of the Minister of Education of Shangdaman, the Ministry of Education has launched non -compulsory non -compulsory exotic speaking session courses in primary schools, middle schools and junior colleges since 2005, allowing non -Chinese students to learn Chinese and Chinese students to learn horses.The coming words, but the effect of promoting years is not satisfactory.Perhaps it is time to consider changing to compulsory courses. The proportion of time is not needed. It is necessary to accept staged ability appraisal, but it does not affect the further studies.
The people's ability to master the basic Malaysian or Indonesian language session will not only help daily life exchanges. At the moment when Singapore is increasingly international and the region is affected by China and the United States, it can also strengthen our "Southeast Asian attributes".The small country that is rooted in the region has its own inextricable cross -ethnic cultural genes. Opening the portal does not mean that we will lead to any party.
The President of Singapore is an important symbol of unity.In the future, when promoting social integration, the president will use the mother tongue of ethnic groups as a fulcrum to play a greater role in climbing.
( The author is the Deputy Director of Lianhe Morning Post in China )
