I am not a Singaporean but I would like to take issue with David Tang Wing-cheung, a knighted Anglo-Chinese, who asserts that Singaporean residents speaks three languages badly. (Öfffensive views on Cantonese condescending", August 10)
His inappropriate remark was made in the context of the recent saga between over the use of Putonghua and Cantonese.
I don't see why Sir David had to drag the four million Singaporean into this debate. Neither could I find any passable justification or compelling evidence that the seven million Hong Konger have a better command of language when we speak than the Singaporeans.
We expect the majority Putonghua speakers to respect our right to speak Cantonese in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, we should also respect Singaporean's language preference.
Appeared in SCMP August 12, 2010
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