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[Matcher6130]

What happened? 30 years ago this was not the case

30 years ago is a long time. Older Chinese with ties to China itself have either passed away, and the rapid pace of Chain's advancements have made it difficult for the few direct family ties difficult to relate to.

A lot of cultural inertia involved. Younger Singaporeans grew up hearing stories fromntheir parents about a society that simply doesn't exist anymore. While new Chinese migrants only know of a Singapore in the present with little context of it's history. This always causes friction, but goes away after 1-2 decades when the adults learn to get along, and the children grow up and tell their parents to stop being so full of themselves.

 

[Ringsword]

But Singapore has compulsory Chinese education. They were probably more hardcore than CPC in Mandarin adoption.

Yes,have several friends/relatives in SG and indeed the overseas Nanyang Chinese community supported alot of the KMT /ML gov't after 1911 and money/political support of China during WW2 which resulted in horrible massacres like the Sookching Massacre which targetted Chinese men 18-50 for killing and estimated 10-20 percent of SG's ethnic Chinese were killed.Gen Tomoyuki Yamashita really hated the Chinese after his experience fighting the resistance in North China-where he looted alot of gold from communities/brutal 3All campaign-and felt that the overseas Chinese were particularly responsible for supporting the resistance movement-and you're right many of the older generation with stronger ties to ML China and memories have died leaving many younger generation more susceptible to western antiChinese propaganda.Blood debt.

 

[Matcher6130]

But Singapore has compulsory Chinese education. They were probably more hardcore than CPC in Mandarin adoption.

You're forgetting how fast China changes as a society and a culture.

• 30 years ago most Chinese still rode bikes and scooters.
• 20 years ago China greatest technical achievement was sending Yang Liwei into orbit
• 10 years ago China's combined automotive industry was smaller than Germany's

Now China's PPP is larger than the US, and contains over half of the entire world's industrial output with ~1/6th the population. What China experience in three decades other nations experience in a century. That's a lot of change for any society, nevermind one as large and old as China.

 

[siegecrossbow]

And they have the temerity to bitch and moan about foreign hackers…

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[Ringsword]

But Singapore has compulsory Chinese education. They were probably more hardcore than CPC in Mandarin adoption.

The initial waves of SG immigrants were speaking mostly speaking Southern Chinese dialects like Cantonese,Teochow,Hakka,Hokkien,Mian etc with each linguistic community being isolated and prejudicial/hostile to each other and only some more educated/modern thinkers were fluent in Mandarin and so a consensus was reached with Mandarin being the lingua franca and thus keeping each dialect's uniqueness BUT having a putonghua for gov't/school /nat'l for a unifying guoyu is a must and will reduce cultural/linguistic schisms that can be exploited by enemies and cause a good genetic /cultural mixing of different communities for a stronger more cultural/genetically fit nation.BTW even in China with Mandarin being the standard places like Shanghai have their famous "Shanghaiese dialect'which I can't understand and many rural/far-off areas have hard to understand subdialects like Toysan Cantonese etc-unify then celebrate diversity-even you guys have commented on the state of Taiwan's Mandarin

 

[argo]

Cubans made medicine too cheap.

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[gelgoog]

If it was a US private company subcontracting doctors out there would be no issues. But because it is the Cuban government of course the US puppet OAS objects to it.

These Cuban doctors abroad get much higher salaries than they would get in Cuba even with the government's cut.

In Cuba anyone can study medicine for free and there are no student ingress limits either. So doctors have lower salaries than taxi drivers driving tourists around.

 

[taxiya]

But Singapore has compulsory Chinese education. They were probably more hardcore than CPC in Mandarin adoption.

Language alone and in its basic function is not culture. Culture is the mind, way of thinking, social value and behaviour. Language is the vehicle to spread culture, although important it is not essensial. Think of a person, the spirit is in the mind, language are like the hands, feet, ears and mouths, the person remains him/herself even though he/she may lost arm/leg or voice.

What defines Singaporian isn't mandarin, a dilect of Chinese, but what kind of idea that is ingrained from Childhood which is western. In this regards Singaporian Chinese isn't different from a blond European Mandarian speaker (better than many native Chinese).

 

[A potato]

The locals also did not speak ill of the Germans who seemed to be quite benevolent towards the governed local populace, unlike certain ugly and cruel neighbour of China.
Oh, yes, I hold the Germans in high regards.

Apprently the German colonial history in Qingdao also got white washed like Namibia and Tanzania because I learned that they burned down existing villages and that the rule was similar to that of Shanghai.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/iy983r/_/g6u9gj3
This reddit post contains the sources about the information within it.

 

[zyklon]

There's loudening chatter that Trump will be attending the upcoming September 3rd Victory Day Parade in Beijing:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1943558077384437996

Japanese political elites are now openly wary of Trump gracing the celebration:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1942472406775304208

If the Japanese authorities are this worried, then there's a serious chance Trump, Putin and Xi will stand above Tiananmen Square in unison on September 3rd, 2025.

On top of that, India is apparently attempting to revive the Russia-India-China (RIC) trilateral dialogue:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1945846477584323043

This means Modi might join the fray in 47 days or so too!

Even though India was not sovereign, independent or otherwise so much a country during World War 2, there's no reason to exclude the Indian prime minister, especially if the presidents of former colonies like East Timor and Burma got to partake in 2015.

However, there is one potential issue . . .



You see, on such occasions, the closer you're seated to Xi, the more important you're.

So let's say retired CPC General Secretary Hu graciously sacrifices his place on the seating chart, so President Trump can be to Xi's left, while President Putin is to his right.

That'll keep the peace between the Americans and Russians, but that means Modi will at best be seated at the same spot as — disgraced South Korean president turned

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— Park Geunhye: an observably inferior position.

That might be too much for some of our Bharati bhais, especially those who self identify as Hindutva, to bear.

However, humanity definitely deserves a better photo of the men who rule them than this:



Hopefully India's favorite chaiwala will make it!

Regardless, a DSLR captured shot of Vladimir, Jinping and Trump holding court together — with or without one or two of their lessers like Modi and/or Lula — will make for an iconic moment: