The post-Speak Mandarin question the Dear You saga has raised
The Government has acknowledged that dialects are part of Singapore’s cultural heritage rather than competitors to Mandarin. What should our language policy now look like?
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The limited release of Teochew-language film Dear You reignited debate over the longstanding restriction on dialect films.
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More than 10 questions from MPs across both sides of the House were devoted to a single issue in Parliament on July 7: whether Singapore’s policy on dialect films still makes sense nearly 50 years after the Speak Mandarin Campaign began.
The trigger was Dear You, the Teochew-language film whose limited release reignited debate over the longstanding restriction on dialect films.
