tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1852717036526979577.post4951889855982748053..comments2024-03-08T19:26:19.450+08:00Comments on Blogging for Myself: Zaobao Chinese Parochialism Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1852717036526979577.post-69248539697326108982014-07-12T06:48:41.279+08:002014-07-12T06:48:41.279+08:00Better not to pay too much attention to how others...Better not to pay too much attention to how others perform and take responsibility for your own performance. Had I adopted your attitude I will have big problems at home. A dyslexic child who could have dropped CL but scored a distinction in the orals versus a sibling who just crashed out of the oral exams a couple of days ago....on the other hand excepting CL her report book shows she beat her elder sister in nearly every other subject throughout her school career. As the elder sis had done extremely well for the major exams this gave the younger one confidence that she will do well...both of them will be reading what I just typed here.<br /><br />My forward looking parents paid a very high price but they did it for my generation and their grand children future. It was an act of sacrificial love. But those editors at zaobao were looking after their own careers at our expense. You should like LKY would have asked what's their agenda. An analogue event is now playing out among writers boycotting NLB over the pulled books. All these folks were just protecting their parochial interests at our expense. Don't be naive and believe their public confession for serving the greater good. Even the Japanese conquered us styling themselves as liberators. Such tactics are as old as the hills. PengYouhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04742670125024917389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1852717036526979577.post-88006466588759180212014-07-12T02:18:13.585+08:002014-07-12T02:18:13.585+08:00We are an Asian society and we want to keep our ro...We are an Asian society and we want to keep our roots. Many people struggle with Chinese or English. But that does not mean that we drop the language from schools.<br /><br />Some kids do badly, but they should ask themselves why others can score in the languages, and even third languages like French and Japanese.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1852717036526979577.post-48182084097599159972014-07-11T23:01:31.622+08:002014-07-11T23:01:31.622+08:00Only a very small number are. What is a chauvinist...Only a very small number are. What is a chauvinist? It is someone who is devoted to a cause who is totally unrealistic and irrational, which was as pointed out by the PM's press secretary. <br /><br />CL here is struggling to stay alive and at the same time a minority have made great strides. Without the bilingual policy, it would have been dead. I think some Chinese elites are willing to pay the highest social and economic price to keep the language vibrant. In that case, Singapore will be socially fractured, divided by race and language with a minority good in EL who will make up the economic elites. As that counter factual scenario emerge, many Chinese families will storm the gates of government offices asking for more EL schools and refused to send them to CL schools....this is madness and stupid. The chauvinists are incapable of thinking of the alternative scenario. You cannot have your cake and eat it. Like many families, mine had paid a high price but the price would have been higher for any other scenario. Even my kids' grand parents could understand this and paid the price why can't the more highly educated editors at Zaobao understand?. Bilingualism was a difficult but brilliant policy. <br /><br />I tell you why Zaobao had that editorial. Their readership keeps falling. They are just trying to protect their rice bowls. But at what cost to our society? The son is kinder and gentler. Were it LKY, he would call you out and you have no place to hide. PengYouhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04742670125024917389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1852717036526979577.post-76470653738056748192014-07-11T22:33:47.705+08:002014-07-11T22:33:47.705+08:00I don't think its right to label people Chines...I don't think its right to label people Chinese chauvinists just because the Chinese wants to ensure Chinese language is alive. Jackyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10706152506057465434noreply@blogger.com