banana Malaysian Chinese having identity problem ....

[tanwahtiu]

对了 华人应该要认识华文字。最少要认识一些字。

如遇到这么样的情况 （全街标志都是中文的）肯定有动机把中文学好。



When there is a will, there is a way. Once you encounter such a scene as in the video, where not a single sign is in English, everything is written in Chinese characters, you will be motivated to master the written language. Hongkies have no problem finding their way around mainland China, though their Mandarin sucks. Mainlanders also have no problem finding their way around Hong Kong, though their Cantonese sucks. That’s because of a shared written language. Thanks to a cruel tyrant – Qin Shihuang – the first emperor of China. He ordered books critical of his regime to be burned and dissidents to be buried alive.

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

IMHO it's not an issue. I put 2 ah nehs together one speaks Tamil the other speaks Hindi....both communicate by using English. If I had not learnt Chinese in school then I wouldn't know it. My parents couldn't have be able to teach me as they did not go to school or learnt chinese....my mother tongue is Cantonese. Most of my relatives who migrated overseas....their children all can't speak mandarin but they learnt to speak Cantonese. Even those who married non Chinese spouses....Cantonese is part of their culture but not mandarin.
Expecting every Chinese or Chinese looking person to be able to know Chinese is ridiculous. It's just like assuming very white guy to speak English.

Hello it's know how to speak mandarin la. Cantonese is chinese also. I hate ppl that call mandarin chinese and then say they can speak a chinese dialect. Totally inaccurate.

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

using chopsticks may be seen as a chinese cultural thing........but assuming every chink knows chinese is like expecting every chinese to know kungfu and fight like bruce lee (this chinese icon with the famous englishname also can't read chinese i'm sure)....

you sure bruce cannot read chinese? How to make movies in HK?

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

There are many Sinkie who studay chinese in primary till secondary, yet they refuse to speak in chinese to each other, and some even say they hate chinese language. These is the kind of useless rubbish sinkies.

Those who can't speak chinese (Malaysian or sinkie) is because during their chidhood, their parent choose not to send them to chinese school, is not their fault for not able speaking chinese, and I know some of them do their best to learn to speak even is hard for them to read chinese character.

So understand the background before judge them.

What u say is correct and for those that defend not being able to speak mandarin even though they went to school to study it just change the language to malay. Suppose we have a malay that uses the same reasoning as some chink assholes here use for not being able to speak mandarin. Somehow it doesn't work when the language is malay.

 

[laksaboy]

There are many Sinkie who studay chinese in primary till secondary, yet they refuse to speak in chinese to each other, and some even say they hate chinese language. These is the kind of useless rubbish sinkies.

Those who can't speak chinese (Malaysian or sinkie) is because during their chidhood, their parent choose not to send them to chinese school, is not their fault for not able speaking chinese, and I know some of them do their best to learn to speak even is hard for them to read chinese character.

So understand the background before judge them.

Most of them are also upper-middle class and they go to church. Of course, their church may have services conducted in Mandarin but don't expect to see them attend those.

Elitist, conservative, pro-status quo, 'don't rock the boat' folks a.k.a the bedrock of PAP support.

 

[lianbeng]

可以。 没问题。天下无难事 只怕有心人。

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