A speech by Darren Woo Hon Fai, a sociology major and valedictorian from Nanayang Technological University's (NTU) Humanities and Social Sciences faculty has caused a heated debate among netizens.
This stems from a disparaging remark he made about his counterparts who were majoring in Chinese.
This is not the first time a valedictorian from NTU has caused a stir on line, with Ms Trinetta Chong, blurting out "We f***ing did it!" at the end of her speech in 2011.
In the video that has already been viewed over 17,000 times on YouTube, he speaks about honouring your parents and then goes on to remark, "And this is for the Chinese majors who probably have not gotten anything I have just said in English" before quoting a Chinese proverb in Mandarin, "Hope for sons to be dragons, daughters to be phoenixes".
A soft 'booing' can be heard in the video when he does this, to which he remarks, 'I can speak Mandarin too."
The video has already garnered strong opposing views to his speech.
An Adrias Tan commented on YouTube saying, "very condescending and patronising speech, I'm utterly mortified his draft was actually approved and 'endorsed' by the institution".
Another Neil Wang queried, "Why were people cheering? I certainly would not applaud for this narcissistic a**."
However, a netizen by the moniker, 'limnieng' pointed out that what Darren said could have been unintentional and simply used it as a transitioning point to his Chinese proverb.
The netizen also then goes to add that his remark is unbecoming of his stature as a valedictorian and wonders if the "spontaneous nature of his remarks also reveals the deep-seated prejudice and ignorant societal view (and he's a sociology major!) held by him, and possibly by many of his peers, towards those highly proficient in Mandarin."
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