[BREAKING!] Minister Sim Ann: Singaporean Chinese Are Not Overseas Chinese

[scourge]

Answer back with 祖籍是中华民国的国民

What if they jjww? Headache.

Better to reply with 祖籍是义顺, then watch them turn pale and sneak away

 

[matrix05]

With uselessbum. Yesterday, Singaporean are all migrants, said one PAP MP; today, we become citizen/non migrants???
With Blackwings. Ann has failed in her national identity job. Suspect this definition speech is in response to recent Senator Tom Cotton's statement/event.
What for she go play with sementics and definitions? This is not a HCL class. So can only be with her if she says we are not communists.

 

[yew lun]

Answer back with 祖籍是中华民国的国民

They would said..roc alr dead...

 

[cpuer]

Hmm, like that should I called my self a jiuhu Chinese Singaporean or Singapore jiuhu Chinese ? I better clarify & memorize, skali one day 中华胶 or 小粉红 ask me this challenge question, 我就伤脑筋了。

 

[orwell76]

MOE should teach CCP is a Soviet subversion tool form to dismembered ROC in 1921

 

[mooseolly]

Ang mo also have this problem with identity? Like American need to say they are America English ? Australian need to say they are Australia English?? If not why?

 

[orwell76]

ICA should reject tiong applications history with CCP membership, communist youth league membership, PLA, GongAn backgrounds

 

[lazyclimb]

not this again. thought there're a number of threads on this nationality/ethnicity mix up

I always proudly tell PRCs ''我是新加坡人!!!!!!!''

All will reply the same and asked ''您是什么祖籍?''

Back to square one

'您是什么祖籍'?

so easy, limpeh is cantonese, so 祖籍 is 南蛮

limpeh ancestors oredi existed long before that 姓毛的 was born, why shld I acknowledge a country that is younger than my grandfather (if he still alive today) as my ancestral home?

 

[TheITGuy]

华侨is only the first gen ba…

 

[cpuer]

ICA should reject tiong applications history with CCP membership, communist youth league membership, PLA, GongAn backgrounds

Like ROC Taiwan? Not a bad idea

 

[orwell76]

Like ROC Taiwan? Not a bad idea

It should be obvious right

 

[PaboJames]

She is not wrong.

 

[Whimsica]

Singaporean are all migrants. So SG Chinese are hua qiao. Who she trying to kid?

Singaporean all migrants?

I am born and bred here and have no other motherland.

I am not a migrant.

And many Malay Singaporeans' forefathers were here in Singapore from day 1.

Further, "Chinese" used in Singapore refer to our race.

Peranakans and people of Taiwanese descent are also classified as Chinese Singaporeans and ethnically they have very weak to no link with China.

We are multi-racial and multi-cultural and should not use "Singaporeans" or "Chinese Singaporeans" too narrowly.

 

[cpuer]

will wearing 8964 or Taiwan flag T shirt save us the CCP harassing?

 

[cal127]

Singaporean are all migrants. So SG Chinese are hua qiao. Who she trying to kid?

Only new citizens are considered migrants those born here are not. The Chinese State does what it thinks it needs to and find the laws, conventions and custom as an after thought. If it wants Chinese diaspora to exercise loyalty (defined by the PRC) to the Chinese state, then it comes with obligations too. That never happens. PRC did not generally consider emigrant Chinese to be its responsibility or subject to its rule. For example it showed little interest in the discrimination and violence suffered by overseas Chinese in many parts of South East Asia in the post-colonial period. Perhaps this will change but I suspect the driver for the lack of recognition for foreign citizenship is pure raison d'etat not any conceptual redefinition of 'Chineseness', the irritation that former PRC residents can potentially stash their cash/property and criticize the regime from a safe distance.

 

[J050615]

“Singapore unfortunately is one of the places in the world that has the highest degree of infiltration and influence by the Chinese Communist Party,” said Tom Cotton-U.S. Senator for Arkansas

How come he is not FICA ?? . And not a word from Vivian or the bulldog who was always first to bark +??

 

[sacredrays]

the chinese term translated to english as "overseas chinese" is mostly referring to prc chinese in overseas right? got refer to anything else?

 

[J050615]

cannot figure out what can be a better translation than my 欧希逼希 for OCBC..

爱死不死 in hokkien

 

[mooseolly]

爱死不死 in hokkien

Already reserved for ICBC.

 

[J050615]

Already reserved for ICBC.

黑心不死 in hokkien