Will Singapore be the first Asian country to ban shark fins?
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Originally posted by sbst275:
What has politics to do with this? What has race itself has to do w/ it?
Other countries maybe nothing to make a fuss about.
But this is Singapore where local chinese culture has been under assault for decades. This is the difference. There are forces in this country that want to systemically destroy the culture of local chinese.
This is the main difference.
Non-English speaking Singaporeans, including Chinese, Malays and Indians have, he says, been discriminated against unnecessarily under the PAP policies, particularly, for example the Chinese-educated, the Buddhists, the Taoists, the Hindus and the Muslims.
The discrimination, he says, takes various forms: Nanyang University was restructured; there is no Chinese-language business paper; there is discrimination in the intake of university students, in the engagement of university lecturers and school teachers, in the manning of positions in the army and police forces, and an absence of representation of the non-English-speaking Singaporeans in the decision-making process and in many top government posts.
These are just a few examples.
Lee did not agree with your decision to pick Goh.
No, he did not disagree. He said he would leave it to us.
His own first choice was Tony Tan. Goh Chok Tong was his second choice.
I was his third choice because he said my English was not good enough.
http://www.singapore-window.org/sw00/000310a4.htm
an absence of representation of the non-English-speaking Singaporeans in the decision-making process and in many top government posts.
Why no state funeral for ex-president Ong Teng Cheong ???
http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?60782-Why-no-state-funeral-for-ex-president-ong-teng-cheong
Dialects have no value, neither culturally nor economically; Mandarin is linked to a 5000-year old history, rich in culture and bears immense economic potential with the opening up of China’s market. Lee Kwan Yew stressed that unlike Mandarin which “has cultural value and will also have economic value twenty years later,” dialects “have no economic value in Singapore. Their cultural value is also very low” (ST, 17 October 1980).
Dialects represent the past and are primitive; Mandarin is the future. Lee Kwan Yew in a television forum argued, “Mandarin is a developing language; on the other hand, dialect is a stagnant language” (ST, 10 January 1980).
http://www.oocities.org/eugene_esther/section4.htm
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Originally posted by Obersturmfuhrer:
The level of ignorance is appalling...
Yeah, is it? Your level of interpretation is appalling !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hahaahha!
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Originally posted by Clivebenss:
can ask fifi's advice how to ban...
That one is banning unobjectively expert !!!! Hhahaa ................
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Originally posted by TehJarVu:
whao i had this in vietnem only US$10 a bowl it was heavenly
$10 glutin shark fins? -
Originally posted by lce:
$10 glutin shark fins?its fish fin lah.
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Removing fins off the shark will not kill it.
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The sharks will like the divers' fins.
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Originally posted by dangerboi:
Removing fins off the shark will not kill it.
If I hacked off your arms and legs and left you in the forest, you'd survive, right?
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Originally posted by Kuali Baba:
If I hacked off your arms and legs and left you in the forest, you'd survive, right?
if someone resuce him
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what will happen will happen
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So many different voices here in this thread :).
I think all of them have their points, but the most significant poster is the one who takes action.
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I'm against the harvesting of sharks fin by not killing the sharks
However, I'm ok if the entire shark is not wasted and the meat sold and eaten too
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I think they will, but NOOOO!!!