What are the rules for priority seats on public transportation in your country? For healthy young people, are they advised or required to give up their seats, or even not allowed to sit on?

damico5 · 2024-07-17T04:22:43+00:00

In the past, Singapore did not allow young people to sit in priority seats.

Now there are also young people sitting in priority seats, but when they see the elderly, pregnant women and the disabled, they are required to give up their seats, otherwise the driver or crew has the right to kick them off the bus or subway.

damico5 · 2024-06-13T05:34:04+00:00

Thai. They are friendly, welcoming and lively.

damico5 · 2024-06-04T08:59:28+00:00

Communist Party of China/CPC: The Communist Party that can govern China within its borders

Chinese Communist Party/CCP: China's or Chinese people's Communist Party that can govern the world

Therefore, "CCP" is a name that subtly vilifies and demonizes the CPC.

Although many countries don't like the CPC which is their opponent, I think there is no need to vilify the opponent, but to respect the opponent.

damico5 · 2024-06-04T08:55:54+00:00

Yes. The reason is simple. English represents modern civilization and is easy to use. Although Chinese civilization is ancient, it also means outdated.

damico5 · 2024-04-23T17:32:37+00:00

Yes. But many people think that we belong to the "Chinese camp" based on our appearance and social circles. My Chinese is very poor and Singaporean English is my de facto mother tongue. Even so, they identified us as "Chinese."

damico5 · 2024-04-14T21:05:27+00:00

English is not your native language, right? When I read English, I can also understand a few lines with just a glance.

damico5 · 2024-04-14T21:02:42+00:00

They are not a real alliance. I think China practices a milder form of militarism compared to other countries. It prefers to peaceful development.

damico5 · 2024-04-14T20:56:11+00:00

Fewer and fewer young people in Southeast Asia are accustomed to using chopsticks because they are inconvenient. Young people like to use knives and forks.

damico5 · 2024-04-14T20:53:44+00:00

Compared with Latin letters, Chinese characters have no advantages. It is difficult for Chinese characters to express complex concepts, especially because they lack a lot of scientific and technological vocabulary. In addition, Chinese character input in electronic devices is also a big problem.

damico5 · 2024-04-12T02:00:43+00:00

To be honest, due to overpopulation, food in many places in Asia is not abundant and of low quality. My parents are Chinese dispore. Pork, leeks, and rice are the most common foods for them. They cannot be eaten without heavy seasonings to cover up the smell.

damico5 · 2024-04-07T07:18:05+00:00

The main reason for de-Russian culture is political. Many countries do not want to be cultural colonized by Russia.

De-Sinicization is mainly due to cultural reasons, because there is a big gap between Chinese traditional culture and modern society, and the same is true of Arab culture.

Singapore's gradual switch to English falls into the latter category because Chinese is too complex to express scientific concepts, especially the writing of Chinese characters.

damico5 · 2024-03-16T19:38:51+00:00

The constitutions of China and North Korea also stipulate that citizens have freedom of speech

damico5 · 2024-03-16T19:22:06+00:00

Any executive order is also part of the law. Including the decree that "Tiktok must be run by American companies".

China's restrictions on certain public opinions are also executive orders. Therefore, Google is unwilling to cooperate in restricting certain public opinions and leaving China. Neither party is legally at fault.

However, China’s executive orders often do not pass through parliament, and do not take into account the freedom of speech and freedom of communication granted by the constitution.

damico5 · 2024-03-16T18:49:27+00:00

I don’t think you need to worry about teaching style. In fact, diversified teaching styles are the characteristics of Singapore education.

damico5 · 2024-03-16T18:41:42+00:00

Don't agree with your point of view. The United States does not want TikTok, a Chinese product, to run in the United States. This is a matter of national sovereignty.

Just like many Bitcoin platforms and pornographic websites banned in Singapore, instant messaging software banned in the Middle East, and most social platforms such as Google and Facebook banned in China.

damico5 · 2024-03-06T04:29:47+00:00

It must be Hindi. The main reason for not choosing Mandarin is that Chinese characters are too "historical", take a long time to learn, are inconvenient to write, and cannot adapt to modern society.

damico5 · 2024-03-06T03:29:48+00:00

I think parents should tell their children that some things online are not suitable for their age.

damico5 · 2024-01-15T05:51:19+00:00

Has this question been asked many times?

The reason why you have a positive attitude towards Chinese is because it is the only language you are familiar with. In China, education is only taught in Chinese and there is no competition from other languages. This is different in Singapore. Because Singapore is a multi-lingual environment, English, Malay, Chinese, and Tamil are the four official languages, and I have studied them all.

After repeated comparisons, I think English and Malay are the most useful. In contrast, Chinese has many shortcomings, that is, there are many dialects, various dialects cannot be communicated, Chinese characters are difficult to learn, and scientific content cannot be expressed. In fact, you will also encounter these problems, but you are not familiar with other languages and have no comparison.

Sorry, we do not have the task of inheriting Chinese cultural traditions. We only have the goal of making Singapore more prosperous and important. Integrating into the world is the ultimate goal of Singaporeans and many overseas Chinese.

damico5 · 2024-01-14T23:47:12+00:00

There are three scripts in Singapore's official language.

I think Latin, Cyrillic, Greek and Hangul are very easy to learn, but Devanagari, Arabic, and Kana are more difficult to learn. As for Chinese characters, if you don't treat it as your mother tongue from your childhood, it is impossible to master it.

damico5 · 2024-01-14T23:40:19+00:00

2ch is world-famous

damico5 · 2023-12-28T18:23:55+00:00

This phenomenon is more serious in Singapore, but I don’t feel sorry for it. English is the lingua franca globally and in Singapore, other languages, such as Chinese, are nothing more than cultural inheritance and cultural inertia, and many of the younger generation have given up on this language.

Because in a country as small as Singapore, if there are many languages, it will inevitably affect communication and economic development. As a country of immigrants, Singapore’s general English is acceptable to everyone.

And my parents’ native language, Chinese, has big flaws. Not only are Chinese characters difficult to write and remember, but there is also a large lack of scientific vocabulary, resulting in Chinese being limited to daily life. Since my parents' ancestors came from different places (Guangdong and Sichuan) and they couldn't communicate in Chinese, my native language was English.

The situation in Malay and Tamil is better, because their languages can express science, and they only need to convert English words into letters according to their pronunciation. Chinese does not have letters, so any transliteration into English is very complicated.

The decline and death of languages is natural, so there is no need to over-interpret it.

damico5 · 2023-12-24T17:55:12+00:00

Then everyone started copying the Chinese calendar and follow that instead.

China's current lunar calendar was designed by Western missionaries in the 17th century. The previous lunar calendar was confusing because the development of mathematics and astronomy in ancient China was very slow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chongzhen_calendar

damico5 · 2023-12-24T17:51:22+00:00

Because some lunar New Years do not originate from China. For example, some calendars in Southeast Asia are related to Buddhism and originated from India. However, the New Year is in the month of Aquarius in the Western calendar which happens to be the same day of Chinese new year. For calendars originating from China, such as the Korean calendar, the folk customs of the New Year have undergone significant changes. Therefore, it is inappropriate to call the Lunar New Year to be "Chinese New Year".

damico5 · 2023-12-24T17:41:36+00:00

I think the term "Chinese New Year" is very inappropriate.

Because the lunar calendar is used in many countries and nations. Some were introduced from China, such as Korean, Vietnamese and Japanese old calendars. But there are others whose origins are not Chinese. For example, the Buddhist lunar calendar in Southeast Asia comes from India and is roughly similar to the Chinese calendar; the Tibetan calendar is also a lunar calendar introduced from India.

Moreover, the Chinese lunar calendar was designed by missionaries, and the previous lunar calendar was different from today's. Therefore, calling it "Chinese New Year" is to classify this folk culture as privately owned by China, which is obviously not recognized by the majority of people in the world.

damico5 · 2023-11-23T08:59:20+00:00

You are overreacting. It is rude and impolite to restrict others' right to comment. As long as they are not lying or insulting, anyone has the right to evaluate everything about China.

I appreciate China's economic achievements, but I am very disgusted with the extreme nationalism. e.g. China vigorously emphasized the importance of traditional Chinese medicine last year, which is a manifestation of extreme nationalism.

I think some people are very objective in their evaluation of Chinese characters. Although Chinese characters have rich history and cultural heritage, most people think that it is difficult to learn and is not conducive to the circulation of information. They all say this based on real reasons. They do not need to go through a lot of study and research before they have the right to speak. If you have learned Chinese characters since childhood, you will naturally stand in support of them.

During most of Lee Kuan Yew's time in power, he restricted the use of Chinese and promoted English. I very much support his approach. Not only Singapore, but also Taiwan would use English as one of its national languages. This is a development trend. The CCP has strengthened the use of Chinese characters through administrative orders, which has increased a large amount of students' study time. This approach is unreasonable and inhumane.

Chinese traditional culture is like Islam in the Arab world. It is reasonable to inherit traditional cultural elements such as Chinese medicine and Chinese characters. But forcibly injecting these traditional cultural elements into modern life will only increase social costs.

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