Chitchat S'pore Grab driver puts sign saying he only speaks Chinese to Chinese people, no English

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S'pore Grab driver puts sign saying he only speaks Chinese to Chinese people, no English​

The passengers found the sign offensive.​

A couple were left stunned during a Grab ride after spotting a sign stating that the driver "did not speak English with Chinese people" and would only speak Chinese.

The woman, Alicia, later took to TikTok, saying she posted about it because she could hardly believe what she was seeing.

Alicia told Mothership she had initially greeted the driver in English, but was met with an “uncle grunt”.

She then sat down and noticed the sign, which she said she had to read thrice because she was in disbelief.

@aliciatadah Slightly offended on behalf of all mixed-chinese kids / Chinese friends that can’t read or speak mandarin ‍ Is this inner race discrimination??? Also what happened to all Singaporeans conversing in basic English so we have racial harmony #tiktoksg ♬ original sound - Ally

Husband did not read Mandarin well​

The situation was made worse by the fact that her husband was not very proficient in Mandarin, Alicia said.

He was quite taken aback, she added.

He had left Singapore to study overseas at around 13, and it had been more difficult for him to learn the language in the first place due to his dyslexia, she explained.

He is also not from a Chinese-speaking household, as he is Peranakan and his mother spoke Malay and Hokkien.

Alicia pointed out that Chinese encompasses much more than just Mandarin, including "all the different dialects that our ancestors brought over".

One language shouldn't take prominence over others​

Alicia said that with so many races living in Singapore, no single language should take prominence over another.

She added: "I'm not saying learn English only. I'm saying that English is the only language that is uniting us now, and if all of us only spoke Mandarin, which is not the case for all other races, that's an erosion of our Singaporean identity. Because we are not Singaporean if we only spoke our own racial languages, right?"

Reported to Grab, driver suspended​

Alicia said she found the sign "offensive" and reported the incident to Grab.

Grab has since responded to her report and commented on her video.

In their comment, they said that this behaviour does not reflect the "inclusive environment" they strive to provide, and added that they would follow up on her report.

In response to Mothership's queries, a Grab spokesperson said they maintain a zero-tolerance policy toward discrimination of any kind.

Consequently, they have suspended the driver involved.

He is required to remove the signage and undergo a mandatory coaching session to ensure alignment with Grab's code of conduct before being considered for reinstatement.

"We would like to remind everyone in our ecosystem of our shared responsibility to maintain a respectful and inclusive environment for all," they added.

Top photos from aliciatadah/TikTok

 

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This reminds me of certain ‘pink army’ supporters who appear to expect others to speak Mandarin for their convenience. It comes across as entitled. The driver seems quite heavily influenced, possibly due to frequent exposure to Xiaohongshu and Chinese TikTok. At this point, he may be quite difficult to reason with, similar to some hopeless old fart here who firmly holds onto ideological beliefs like communism

 

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PRCs come Sinkieland and expect locals to pander to them, instead of the other way around.

It’s like going to your friend’s house as a guest and demand they wash your feet.

 

[True Believer]

This is the same situation at many workplaces in S'pore where Mandarin seems to be spoken in informal interactions between colleagues. However, it is also used increasingly more even in formal interactions when most of the staff present are Chinese - including some who are not fluent in Mandarin.

 

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Don’t need to complain until he got suspended la. Some old farts are like tat. Those old local uncles want chink to speak mandarin one.

 

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[laksaboy]

Wait till you encounter silly Tiongs who really believe Sinkie Chinese are also 中国人. Many of their kind out there.

 

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Wait till you encounter silly Tiongs who really believe Sinkie Chinese are also 中国人. Many of their kind out there.

you are dead wrong! you are a crazy retarded racist PRC-hater mad bastard crazy dog!

The driver is 100% confirmed a Malaysian-chinese and NOT a PRC.

Because from my many years of experiences working with Malaysian-chinese and China-chinese， when PRCs write the chinese word for sorry, the PRCs will write 不好意思 and NOT write 抱歉 。

Whereas Malaysian-chinese will write the chinese word for sorry as 抱歉。Hence this driver confirmed is a Malaysia-born Malaysian-chinese, although she may have already converted from Malaysian citizenship to Singaporean citizenship.

Although I very dislike Malaysian-chinese, but I want to point out that there are many racist mandarin-haters indians and malays in this online forums that are very double-standard.

Because the vast majority of Singaporean-Malays also speak only in Malay to another Singaporean-malay and the vast majority of Singaporean-malays do not speak in English to another Singaporean-malay.


Hence those racist mandarin-haters are very shameless and double-standard to only pick on those Chinese race people that speaks only mandarin to another Chinese race person.

 

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PRCs come Sinkieland and expect locals to pander to them, instead of the other way around.

It’s like going to your friend’s house as a guest and demand they wash your feet.

you are dead wrong! you are a crazy retarded racist PRC-hater mad bastard crazy dog!

The driver is 100% confirmed a Malaysian-chinese and NOT a PRC.

Because from my many years of experiences working with Malaysian-chinese and China-chinese， when PRCs write the chinese word for sorry, the PRCs will write 不好意思 and NOT write 抱歉 。

Whereas Malaysian-chinese will write the chinese word for sorry as 抱歉。Hence this driver confirmed is a Malaysia-born Malaysian-chinese, although she may have already converted from Malaysian citizenship to Singaporean citizenship.

Although I very dislike Malaysian-chinese, but I want to point out that there are many racist mandarin-haters indians and malays in this online forums that are very double-standard.

Because the vast majority of Singaporean-Malays also speak only in Malay to another Singaporean-malay and the vast majority of Singaporean-malays do not speak in English to another Singaporean-malay.

Hence those racist mandarin-haters are very shameless and double-standard to only pick on those Chinese race people that speaks only mandarin to another Chinese race person.

 

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you are dead wrong! you are a crazy retarded racist PRC-hater mad dog!

The driver is 100% confirmed a Malaysian-chinese and NOT a PRC.

U think PRC chink and Mudland Chink are any different in my opinion? Both are job stealers here.

Is this song on your playlist?

 

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U think PRC chink and Mudland Chink are any different in my opinion? Both are job stealers here.

Is this song on your playlist?

U think PRC chink and Mudland Chink are any different in my opinion? Both are job stealers here.

Is this song on your playlist?

you are a crazy retarded racist PRC-hater mad bastard crazy dog!

you go die now!

 

[Sinkiesuk]

U think PRC chink and Mudland Chink are any different in my opinion? Both are job stealers here.

Is this song on your playlist?

Jackie Chan during his young days hate china one esp during Tiananmen protest massacre. Now china can earn more money he pau china liao.

Prc slightly better than jhk. Prc know local come in pay higher but they will complete with them instead of jhk kpkb say sinkie privilege come in pay higher etc and always think sinkie look down on them then say go back 3.5 times not happy.

 

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Why the grab driver did not display the sign in sinkie 4 official language?
If a ceca, heshe will speaks ceca to him

 

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U think PRC chink and Mudland Chink are any different in my opinion? Both are job stealers here.

Is this song on your playlist?

True cina song?

 

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Jackie Chan during his young days hate china one esp during Tiananmen protest massacre. Now china can earn more money he pau china liao.

Prc slightly better than jhk. Prc know local come in pay higher but they will complete with them instead of jhk kpkb say sinkie privilege come in pay higher etc and always think sinkie look down on them then say go back 3.5 times not happy.

PRC better than JiuHuKia? lol they come here to steal the engineering, business development, accounting and junior banking jobs. Then they slowly work their way up. I will say they are much more dangerous than PRCs.

 

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PRC better than JiuHuKia? lol they come here to steal the engineering, business development, accounting and junior banking jobs. Then they slowly work their way up. I will say they are much more dangerous than PRCs.

Ya both also steal jobs but jhk treat sinkie like their own country even though they know they never serve ns. Prc they will complete with peo plus they so many peo they can't survive their own country then come sinkie and steal.

 

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PHVs on shithole island usually no such problem as the drivers are mostly local PMETs who got replaced by foreign trash or jobless local uni grads

 

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PRC better than JiuHuKia? lol they come here to steal the engineering, business development, accounting and junior banking jobs. Then they slowly work their way up. I will say they are much more dangerous than PRCs.

PRC better than JiuHuKia? lol they come here to steal the engineering, business development, accounting and junior banking jobs. Then they slowly work their way up. I will say they are much more dangerous than PRCs.

you are a crazy retarded racist PRC-hater mad bastard crazy dog!

you go die now!

many of those China-haters Singaporeans that married Malaysian-chinese spouses due to their selfish biased vested interests of having Malaysian-chinese direct family members, they always unfairly scold/curse China-Chinese for committing bad acts in Singapore and they often incite hatred against China-Chinese but they very biasedly sing praises of malaysian-chinese. But the truth is Malaysian-chinese commit much more wicked crimes in Singapore compared to China-Chinese.

Examples,
In Singapore's history, no China people had ever gangraped a Singaporean female before. But in 1989 got happen before a group of seven malaysian-chinese males gangraped a Singaporean total stranger teenage girl in a beach in singapore.

In Singapore's history, no China people had ever killed a child in Singapore before. But got happen before malaysian-chinese killed a child in Singapore before. Example that Took Leng How case.

In Singapore's history, no China male had ever committed sexual assaults on more than 10 children/teenagers before. But in year 2015 got 1 malaysian-chinese was sentenced to jail for sexually penetrating more than 10 minors under the age of 14 in singapore. Example that Yap Weng Wah case. Yap Weng Wah, a malaysian was sentenced to 30 years in prison and 24 strokes of the cane. Yap Weng Wah was convicted of 11 charges of sexually penetrating a minor below the age of 14.

In Singapore's history, NO China woman had ever murdered her Singaporean husband for money or revenge before. NOT even once.

But got happen before malaysian-chinese woman murdered her Singaporean husband for revenge or money before. And somemore happen more than 1 time before. Example the 1984 murder case whereby a malaysian-chinese woman hired a few Thailand killers to kill her Singaporean-Chinese banker husband when her Singaporean husband was sleeping in his condominium's bedroom.

In Singapore's history, NO China female tenant had ever used a knife to slash her Singaporean houseowner before. NOT even once.

But got happen before more than 1 time malaysian-chinese female tenant use knife to slash her Singaporean houseowner. Example a few years ago got 1 malaysian-chinese female tenant stabbed to death her elderly Singaporean-Chinese flatowner just because the malaysian-chinese female tenant was unhappy that the elderly Singaporean flatowner wanted to increase $10 rental fee due to the malaysian tenant's bad habit of always leaving her room lights on when she sleep. that malaysian-chinese female tenant's name is woo mui mee.

And also another case whereby another malaysian-chinese female tenant left her opened can of sardines in the fridge for more than 1 day and she was angry that her Singaporean flatowner threw away her this opened canned of sardines and this malaysian-chinese female tenant took a knife to slash her Singaporean flatowner.

In Singapore's history, no China people had ever committed sexual abuse against a toddler before, But this year 2025 in Singapore got 1 malaysian-chinese was sentenced to jail for sexual abuse against 3 toddler girls. Teo Guan Huat, a malaysian was sentenced to jail for sexual abuse against 3 toddler girls.

And many people say the murderer of that horrific 1979 murder of 4 children in a geylang bahru one-room flat is the malaysian-chinese neighbour.

Some of the Greatest lies that are being spread in Singapore is Malaysian-chinese don't cause social problems in Singapore and Malaysian-chinese assimilate very well into Singaporeans's culture.

I last time work many years housing rental agent and I noticed that those Singaporeans that spread these 2 lies are always either those singaporeans they are former Malaysian-chinese that migrated to Singapore themselves or they are Singaporeans that have spouses or direct family members that are Malaysian-chinese.

Is not Malaysians assimilate well into Singaporeans's culture, is those former Malaysians that migrated to Singapore and those singaporeans that have Malaysian-chinese direct family members, due to their selfish biased vested interests of either being former Malaysians themselves or having Malaysian-chinese family members, they lied Malaysians don't create social problems in Singapore and they lied Malaysians assimilate very well into Singaporeans's culture and they grossly exaggerated the problems caused by other nationalities's foreigners in Singapore to divert attention.

Malaysians cause a lot of social problems in Singapore and Malaysians commit the most numbers of heinous crimes in Singapore.

The majority of Malaysian-chinese behave in the same spiteful way as that DAP's NGM detest Singapore and detest Singaporeans and are very jealous and spiteful about Singapore.

 

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Chow ahtiong driving taxi and grab now. The last dignity of sinkies also sold to foreigners.