If the Speak Mandarin Campaign succeeded, why are we still afraid of Teochew?
The Chinese blockbuster Dear You is forcing Singapore to revisit one of its most consequential cultural trade-offs.
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The film Dear You has inadvertently reopened a debate on one of Singapore’s oldest cultural trade-offs: what we gained from the Speak Mandarin Campaign, and what it cost us.
PHOTO: CLOVER FILMS
It’s not every day that Singaporeans consider crossing an international border to hear their own ancestral language.
Yet that is exactly what some are planning to do.
