It is not wrong to speak Hokkien. It is not wrong to speak Cantonese. Or Hainanese or Teochew or whatever (actually I just said whatever because I don't know what're the other dialects haha).
It is not wrong. Not crude, doesn't define you as a lowly person.
Speak it while you can, speak it while you still know a little bit of what's left.
Use it and learn it and revive it.
Who said thesedialects languages are bad?
The government.
Now I'm wondering why the hell I like Mandarin so much when I should be liking Hokkien instead.
Oh because the government said so.
It's all very interesting and pretty infuriating when you delve deeper into the history of Mandarin in Singapore. How it came about to be the "mother tongue" of us Chinese.
Imposed Imposed Imposed and I realise how much we have been manipulated by the government quite sad actually.
We've been manipulated to such an extent where we think dialects are useless/lowly/shouldn't even be speaking it at all and we flock all the way to English and Mandarin and set up camps there and refuse to budge from our high horses.
I used to frown at Chinese who's Mandarin sucked like hell but not anymore.
Mandarin is not our mother tongue, Hokkien/Cantonese/Whatever is.
I wish I could write an essay on this instead.
It is not wrong. Not crude, doesn't define you as a lowly person.
Speak it while you can, speak it while you still know a little bit of what's left.
Use it and learn it and revive it.
Who said these
The government.
Now I'm wondering why the hell I like Mandarin so much when I should be liking Hokkien instead.
Oh because the government said so.
It's all very interesting and pretty infuriating when you delve deeper into the history of Mandarin in Singapore. How it came about to be the "mother tongue" of us Chinese.
Imposed Imposed Imposed and I realise how much we have been manipulated by the government quite sad actually.
We've been manipulated to such an extent where we think dialects are useless/lowly/shouldn't even be speaking it at all and we flock all the way to English and Mandarin and set up camps there and refuse to budge from our high horses.
I used to frown at Chinese who's Mandarin sucked like hell but not anymore.
Mandarin is not our mother tongue, Hokkien/Cantonese/Whatever is.
2 comments:
ahahah! yeah i know, i found out rather startlingly (0.0!) lol! that mandarin was actually imposed on us as our mother tongue to ensure uniformity!! but well, it works i guess. but it's quite unfair to downgrade hokkien and all into dialects. but alot of people still speak it anyway! ler hou bo?! AHAHAAH
wa bo hou. jin zui ming gia ar buay zo. jin stressed.
SIAN JI BUA. hahahahhaha
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