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SG is becoming a Chinese nation
rantsNowadays there are alot of China businesses in SG, particularly fnb where all of the signs including the menu are in Mandarin(simplified Chinese) and there's no English, all of the staff are mostly northern China mainlanders speaking with the dong bei accent and they like to shame local Singaporeans especially us teochew/hokkien/Cantonese locals for not speaking Mandarin, "Ni shi hua ren dan shi wei she me bu hui Jiang zhong wen?"(You're a Chinese person why can't you speak Mandarin). I feel that our Chinese population is also losing the ability to speak our dialects(our ancestors came from the southern china regions).
As a born and bred teochew Chinese Singaporean who's mom a chindo is from Pontianak, Indonesia, things are very different there. In every local Chinese food stall there(run by teochews) regardless if it's bakmi kepiting(crab meat noodles) or chai kue(soon kueh in SG), the menus will be entirely in bahasa Indo and everyone who's a local there can easily order it. Plus, the Chinese in Pontianak literally speak both bahasa and teochew, not losing their dialects. The kopi Asiang place run by a Chinese Indo uncle is a local legend there for brewing coffee while being shirtless and he takes orders in both teochew and bahasa Indo
In Malaysia, especially JB and KL. I find that the local Chinese are embracing Mandarin but also able to speak their dialects and Malay, the food menus are in traditional Chinese and malay(or sometimes English too). They always take my order in English as most of them can speak it.