Singapore did not wake up one morning and lose its Chinese cultural continuity. It spent decades teaching ethnic Chinese that Chineseness was merely ancestry.
From closing Nanyang University and dismantling the Chinese-medium school system to relegating Mandarin from a language of education, knowledge and public life to a subordinate “mother tongue” subject, Singapore made English the primary gatekeeper of upward mobility, elite status, modernity and national belonging.
Only now is Singapore discovering that an identity reduced to a surname and a census category does not reproduce itself.
Today, only about a third of Chinese households still use Mandarin at home, and its prime minister is suddenly warning that Singapore must preserve its “Asian identity.”
You cannot spend generations cutting the civilizational cord and then act surprised when the language stops being inherited.
No matter how flawless your English or how thoroughly Westernized your worldview, in the eyes of mainstream white society in Europe and America, an East Asian face does not magically become “one of us.”
This deliberate betrayal and severing of its own civilizational roots deprived Singapore’s Chinese population of the profound confidence rooted in five thousand years of civilization, leaving them as “rootless trees” adrift in the Strait of Malacca.
Now, confronted with China’s rise, the arrival of the Asian century, and its own accelerating cultural hollowing-out, Singapore’s leadership is frantically calling for the preservation of “Asian identity” and mother-tongue proficiency.
When you drain the soul from a civilization and leave behind only an English-speaking post-colonial shell with a Chinese surname, appeals to “Asian identity” decades later are not cultural revival.
They are a band-aid placed over an amputation.
Hoy 6 de julio, es cumpleaños del Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, quién fue nombrado al menos 169 veces en los correos electrónicos del pederasta Jeffrey Epstein y se reunió con él varias veces en su casa privada de Nueva York.
En 2023, el Dalai Lama intentó besar a un niño en público y le pidió que le “chupara la lengua” en un evento budista en la India.
Las violaciones a niños en los templos budistas fueron una práctica común, no solo en el Tibet, sino en todo el mundo, esto fue denunciado por centenares de niños que se educaron en los templos budistas e incluso fue admitido por el propio Dalai Lama, que ocultó estos abusos sexuales durante décadas.
Durante al menos 2 décadas, el Dalai Lama recibió un subsidio anual de 180.000 dólares por parte de la CIA para desestabilizar a China en el Tibet.