SG mixed race culture like USA?

• Catknight

  16 Jan 10, 13:36

  Ok..ok..many americans got european, native american mixed bloodline..so if a superpower like USA can get by..can we too?

• angel7030

  16 Jan 10, 14:38

  no lah, in america, they call those mix breed a beauti and rare gem, like Maria Carey, transformer actor and actress, etc etc...but in singapore, people call those mixe blood Baba, Baba siao or chum chen kia or sometime, call you bastard. So much different lor

• ztreyier

  16 Jan 10, 14:52

  Originally posted by Catknight:

  Ok..ok..many americans got european, native american mixed bloodline..so if a superpower like USA can get by..can we too?

  Almost all the key members of PAP in the early days were peranakan. What else you want?

   

  Although leading members of the PAP, such as Lee Kuan Yew, Dr Toh Chin Chye and Dr Goh Keng Swee, were publicly described as English-educated Babas, the Babas as a group were openly belittled as "deculturalised".

  http://www.asiawind.com/pub/forum/fhakka/mhonarc/msg01319.html

   

  Endangered species? For goodness sake, Lee Kuan Yew practically filled the entire cabinet with inbred Peranakans. For the last few decades in Singapore, the top positions in civil service, statutory boards, armed forces, GLCs have all along been going disproportionately to the Peranakans. That is one reason why Singapore has been run to the ground.

  Lee Kuan Yew worked with the Japanese Kempeitai and later the British colonizers to suppress the non-Peranakan Chinese. That's why he has always been wary of non-Peranakan Chinese and could only entrust power to his own family members and his other Peranakan cronies.

  http://tomorrow.sg/archives/2009/02/17/peranakans__going_the_way_of_the.html

   

   

  Destroy chinese schools, impose colonial language, turn young people into bananas, suppress dialects. Only hokkien President, deny him the state funeral.

   

  What else you still want?

   

   

• Howlheje

  16 Jan 10, 15:26

  In Singapore,LKY is pronounce as Bastard.

  Now,read after me.....Bas-Tard.:)

• angel7030

  16 Jan 10, 15:27

  not basket ball meh...

• ztreyier

  16 Jan 10, 15:36

  The chasm between the Babas and the sinkehs (literally "guests", or recent
  immigrants from China) may also be illustrated by the typical occupations
  of the China-born Chinese which self-conscious Babas would have shunned.
  
  As S.C. Wong wrote, in a letter to The Straits Times in 1948: "Our
  China-born brethren are very useful in Singapore. Without them, we must
  look to automatic machinery, for few Straits-born Chinese care to take up
  the following trades: tailor, shoe-maker, launderer, barber, farmer,
  butcher, fisherman, grocer, market stallholder, carpenter, bricklayer,
  painter, machine-shop artisan, boiler-maker, blacksmith, lumberjack,
  sawmill worker, stevedore, lighterman, lorry-driver, taxi-driver, omnibus
  driver and conductor, mining coolie, tapper, and the indispensable
  night-soil coolie."
  
  Despite some signs of "resinicisation", many Babas tended to reciprocate
  the insults and teasing of the non-Baba Chinese by calling them "country
  bumpkins" and low-class guests.
  
  With the increased ambiguity of the status of the Babas, many of them
  neither dared to admit they were Babas nor spoke Baba Malay in public.

  http://www.asiawind.com/pub/forum/fhakka/mhonarc/msg01319.html