Sun Xi, a graduate of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, is the typical product of Chinese-pore. The PAPpies can claim all they like that we are a multi-cultural nation. Fact is that PAPpy’s policies are actually heavily slanted towards Chinese-porean culture.
Here is Sun Xi’s full essay – Singapore: from Bilingualism to Biculturalism (full version)
Note that although he mentions other races when he talks about bi-culturalism, he talks only in the English-Chinese mode. He only makes a token mention or two about the Malay and Tamil languages, the two other main languages of Singapore. Here is a list of his Chinese bias:
1. Sun Xi attributes the rise of Singapore to First World to China’s growth. Little does he know that Singapore started its industrial revolution in 1970s, long before China opened up around the early 1990s. We were already First World when China was only in its infant stage in its industrialization.
2. He quotes Taiwan’s first Culture Minister and scholar Lung Ying-Tai to back his claim that culture determines social development. He can’t quote a Malay or Indian source?
3. Quotes Jackie Chan’s donation of his four Chinese Hui-style ancient buildings to Singapore. Another Chinese linked source. Come on, Sun Xi, where is your so called “multicultural” concept?
4. Sun Xi further quotes Business China (Singapore) that initiated to “nurture bilingual and bicultural Singaporeans to develop a cultural and economic bridge with China.”. Hmm…. yet another Chinese source. Come on. Is this guy talking about Singapore or Chinese-pore?
5. Proceeds to mention the four main Chinese community organizations in Singapore — ie the Singapore Federation of Chinese Clan Associations, the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce & Industry, the Chinese Development Assistance Council and the Business China.
Still waiting for that one single non-Chinese source…..
Sadly, that’s about all. No non-Chinese organisation or individual is mentioned. Not one at all. But then again, he is a product of PAP’s Chinese-pore, isn’t he?
The PAPpies have over the decades pretended to promote multiculturalism. In fact, they push for only one culture – the Chinese culture, and that too, Han Chinese Culture. Here are three of my past posts to support my claim that it is Han Chinese culture that the PAPpies have been forcing down on us. They give little hoot to non-Chinese culture, or for that matter, non-Han Chinese culture.
PAP’s Racist MT Policy, Part 1 – The Sidelining of other Races and Cultures
PAP’s Racist MT Policy, Part 2 – PAP is forcing Han Culture, not Chinese Culture, on us
Chinese Chauvinism Rampant at Heart of MT Issue
Conclusion -
When PAP govt says “biculturalism” it actually means the Chinese-nization of Singapore. This is very obvious in so many of the govt policies we have seen over the decades. So when Sun Xi purports in his article that biculturalism is multiculturalism that encompasses the Malay and Tamil language as well, he is talking nonsense, just like the PAPpies.
Copying and mimicking what others say and do is nothing scholarly. Sun Xi’s article tells us that the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore is nothing but a factory that produces clones of the typical PAPpy yesman. In this case, it produces the typical PAPpy Chinese-porean.
Barrie
* The author blogs at http://wherebearsroamfree.blogspot.com