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A prominent minister who has been shot down because of his ‘lack of skills in English’ is current Minister for Social and Family Development and Second Minister for Defence, Chan Chun Sing. When he was first introduced as a new candidate for the PAP, his Singaporean Mandarin-accented English did not escape comments from the online Singaporean community. In an online forum thread titled ‘You prefer Tan Chuan-Jin or Chan Chun Sing to be your future PM?4’, user steffychun replied, ‘Neither. One can't speak good English the other is too white5 to be any different.’ In her reply, we see that she dismisses Minister Chan as unqualified based on the fact that he cannot ‘speak good English’.
A prominent minister who has been shot down because of his ‘lack of skills in English’ is current Minister for Social and Family Development and Second Minister for Defence, Chan Chun Sing. When he was first introduced as a new candidate for the PAP, his Singaporean Mandarin-accented English did not escape comments from the online Singaporean community. In an online forum thread titled ‘You prefer Tan Chuan-Jin or Chan Chun Sing to be your future PM?4’, user steffychun replied, ‘Neither. One can't speak good English the other is too white5 to be any different.’ In her reply, we see that she dismisses Minister Chan as unqualified based on the fact that he cannot ‘speak good English’.