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Cheers! Champagne is just champagne without strawberries. Why strawberries and not apricots? Is it the taste? Or is it the added touch of class? Neither, cause that is the way it is suppose to be. Don't always question why... ...just enjoy!
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Oh, I always thought that you had Peranakan blood...do you not?
Yupz. I am half a Peranakan. Too bad I don't speak Baba. Sigh.
I luv peranakan food. I think a lot of peranakans are very nice people too... but I have one problem with many peranakans... so many of them are so bloody proud that they can't speak mandarin... come on, whites in china speak mandarin, asians in france speak french, so why shouldn't peranakans in singapore speak mandarin? Elitism is no excuse for inability...
Yes, I do agree that many of them do not speak Mandarin. But I disagree that they do not speak mandarin due to the fact that they are proud. This is due to the family upbringing. They don't speak mandarin at home and so they lack a field to practice on. Malay is the spoken language at home. And it links itself back to English being spoken at home. Many of my Peranakan friends are trying hard to speak mandarin. And many of my none Peranakan friends also do not speak mandarin. Not all people are like us, effectively bilingual. Just encourage them to speak mandarin when they are around us. It helps!
hmm the point i was driving at was not really that they don't speak mandarin because they're proud, but rather that they're proud of the fact that they don't speak mandarin...
Hmmm....kinda hard to comment on that. case by case lah. Coz I do know some that are proud of the fact they don't speak Mandarin. Infact, this is not something that is exclusive to the Peranakan community.
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