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Tracing my roots to China has made me more Singaporean
A growing interest in genealogy and dialects reinforces our notions of heritage, home and national identity.
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A growing interest in genealogy and dialects reinforces our notions of heritage, home and national identity.
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The ongoing money-laundering case involving several Chinese nationals had some Singaporeans up in arms over how those of Fujian or Anxi descent were unfairly labelled as “crooks”
Members of the Singapore Ann Kway Association, in particular, cried foul when some media reports said that Anxi county, where their ancestors hailed from, had transformed from a tea capital to a “fraudsters’ home town”.
