Actually u r right, he is peranakan and not Hakka. He made a honest mistake as he doesnt know his roots well. His daughter Lee Wee Ling pointed out that they r actually peranakan in the Strait Times commentary a few months ago after the ending of the tc 8 peranakan tv series lol…

The irony is that even the Singapore GOVERNMENT sometimes NEEDS positions that require dialect proficiency. Where are they going to get people to fill the positions below if learning dialect is stupid? Does Mr Chee want all the courts to have no interpreters in future? How do we maintain functioning courts by then?

LANGUAGE EXECUTIVES [CHINESE & MALAY]
Junior Executive Jobs by The Subordinate Courts

(a) CHINESE INTERPRETERS’ SECTION

• You must have an Honours or Pass University degree, preferably majoring in Chinese studies or English. You must also have at least a B4 credit in Chinese at ‘AO’ level and a B4 credit in GP.
• You are expected to render accurate and professional interpretation and translation of documents in English, Chinese and/or dialects you are proficient in. You are also required to mediate in maintenance cases and to perform any other duties in the administration of justice.

One moment, it is ‘Speak Good English’. The next moment, ‘Be Heard in Mandarin’. Now, Mandarin is to be the mother tongue of Singaporeans. Why doesn’t the government focus on one thing at a time? Get one thing right first and move on from there. In other nations, students are taught their native tongue first. Once they are grounded in that, they can choose to learn another language. English is the medium of education, law, commerce and government in Singapore but the English is not taught to a good standard to-day. Mandarin is apparently taught poorly too. Otherwise, Singaporeans will not need to bother with private tutors.

At the end of a person’s educational life, there is apparently nothing to show but poor language skills? This is depressing.

Is Mr Chee a Singaporean? Did he not learn anything from all those courtesy campaigns in the 70s and 80s?

What is this !!

That is right, he is not passing any law. But he is discrimintating other languages. Does that come under any discrimination laws in singapore?

All we want is respect and free use of languages from respective ethnic groups, races…

You may not like the way he talks, but he is not passing a law to ban the use of dialects.

But what government is doing is prohibiting the institutionalisation of dialects.

Why should Singaporeans require Chinese for Uni entry? We are not a Chinese Republic.

The government has never really been sincere about promoting chinese education despite talking and advertising about it. Chinese lessons have been reduced in schools, subjects taught in chinese have been removed, most subjects are taught in English. Chinese is no longer required as a pre-requisite for University entry. On the streets, signage in Chinese has been removed, except in China town and tourist areas. Government agencies are mainly english speaking.

The entire ecology of Chinese education has been systematically removed… And you wonder why despite the government’s efforts to promote Chinese, the standard of Chinese is dropping…

Wonder no more… It is systematic removal of the Chinese Language.

Reach is a Web of Govt. The speed is still very slow now.
I think these are the two main reasons of not so active as compare to TOC.
Here, very fast and more interaction.
Also, the news reported and respond are very fast.
Lastly, I think most of the people here dare to speak their mind.

to those on the side of the lobby advocating the speaking of dialect…please don use vulgarity in dialect…and stop your children and other from using dialect this way…only when we speak it the standard of the Tang Dynasty scholar and imperial way…can our dialect gain recognition..