Chinese here did not lose their cultures and still eat rice and do Chinese things.
In fact it was the British people that loses more to learn from the Chinese becos drug traffickers British are banned from associated with the drug addicts Chinese, and native Malays, by their crown dictator QUEEN Victoria.
If the British were not drug traffickers but good people you will find more mixed marriage among the Chinese today. Singapore will be more prosper to the British than to walk out shamefully not wanting to be glorifed of their past achievement by the natives shared of common wealth.
This is the price to pay when u want to commit criminal trades and yr descendant suffer today in isolation.
Nothing wrong with being proud of our culture.
Problem is many of us are indoctrinated with the Western culture when English becomes our lingua franca that we loses our native culture. Thanks to PAP.