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	Republic of Singapore - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
		Chinese is the primary language spoken in the majority of homes.
		Chinese, Malay, Indian, and British influences are apparent in Singapore’s art, architecture, and fine arts.
		Chinese, Hindu, and Islamic architecture are represented in the ornate Shuang Lin Temple, the Sri Mariamman Temple, and the Sultan Mosque, respectively.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761559956___4/Republic_of_Singapore.html (705 words)

	Republic of Singapore - Search View - MSN Encarta
		Voting is compulsory for all Singaporeans 21 years of age and older.
		However, Singaporeans enjoy modern and affordable health care, which is heavily subsidized by the government.
		Its growth as the most important port in the region attracted thousands of migrants from China, India, and other parts of Southeast Asia and established the ethnic and cultural diversities that are still characteristic of its population.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761559956__1/Republic_of_Singapore.html (3981 words)

	yax-125 Mandarin and the Southern Chinese
		Chinese Singaporeans are led to believe that there is one language, Chinese, and the "dialects" are merely variations in pronunciation.
		Besides Classical Chinese as the written form, within the confines of the Peking bureaucracy itself, but not the provincial administrations, the spoken form was a rather elevated version of the Peking dialect.
		Their concept of Chinese was that of a family of languages sharing a common script, but in real life, even their spoken versions departed quite a bit from the written version in vocabulary, word order and other linguistic features.
	www.yawningbread.org /arch_1998/yax-125.htm (5189 words)

	Speak Mandarin Campaign - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Speak Mandarin Campaign (SMC; Simplified Chinese: 讲华语运动; pinyin: jiǎng huáyǔ yùndòng) is an initiative by the government of Singapore to encourage Singapore's Singaporean Chinese population to speak Mandarin, one of the four official languages of Singapore.
		The motivation was to discourage the use of various Chinese dialects by Chinese Singaporeans and to encourage the speaking of Mandarin as a common language among the Chinese population.
		From 1979 to 1981, the Speak Mandarin Campaign was targeted at Chinese Singaporeans, in particular, specific groups such as hawkers, public transport workers, white-collar workers and senior executives, to encourage them to speak Mandarin instead of dialects so that they can better communicate with each other, especially among various dialect groups.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Speak_Mandarin_Campaign (982 words)

	Britain.tv Wikipedia - Hoa
		The Hoa are descended from early Mainland Chinese settlers from the Guangdong province who arrived in Vietnam from the 18th to 20th centuries.
		Due to the proximity of Vietnam to Guangdong province, Mainland China, and to Hong Kong, the Chinese Vietnamese have tended to retain the strongest ties and greater affinity to traditional Chinese culture, unlike many other overseas Chinese diasporas in Southeast Asia, especially in comparison to Chinese Filipinos, Thai Chinese, and the relatively westernized Chinese Singaporeans.
		The expulsion and persecution of ethnic Chinese in Vietnam was one of the reasons, though not cited as a primary one, for China initiating the Sino-Vietnamese War in 1979.
	www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Hoa (2093 words)

	Inter-generational cultural transmission in Singapore. - 65th IFLA Council and General Conference
		Chinese, Malay, and Indian stories, myths, mythology and folklore are the stuff and substance of the cultural traditions which we rightly seek to make part of the mental and spiritual makeup of our young people.
		With the Singaporean Chinese, the bilingual education policy is difficult to pursue as Mandarin, the chosen mother tongue, is not native to the Singaporean Chinese community.
		While it is certain that generation gaps occur in all civilisations and cultures, perhaps Singaporean Chinese's experience is unique in that within a generation, the language of communication became a barrier between the grand-parents' generation and the grandchildren as a result of direct and conscious government policy making.
	www.ifla.org /IV/ifla65/65cc-e.htm (4002 words)

	Chinese In Singapore - China History Forum, chinese history forum
		The Chinese in Singapore are people of Chinese descent who are born in or immigrated to Singapore and has attained citizenship or permanent residence status.
		Many Chinese too have married Peranakans (Chinese who have married ethnic Malays and have adopted a mix of Chinese and Malay culture) and increasing numbers are marrying outside their ethnic group.
		A backbone of folk Chinese culture among southern Chinese dialect groups, Taoism was once a popular belief held by many Chinese, Taoist beliefs has witnessed a sharp decline from the 1970s onwards, as most of the younger-generation, Chinese Singaporeans abstain from folk beliefs, viewing that superstitous beliefs would do harm to them.
	www.chinahistoryforum.com /index.php?showtopic=10346 (4626 words)

	1022 Singapore real estate rental houses, apartments, condos, advertisements, internet classifieds, published by ...
		Many Chinese Singaporean children have to take one-to-one Mandarin tuition at S$25 to S$30 per hour as they show no interest or motivation at school to learn more about their mother tongue.
		The Peranakan girl has a father who is Chinese but the parents may be of Chinese or mixed Chinese origin and she is brought up in a Malay speaking environment.
		Her surname will be a Chinese surname but the girl will be usually fluent in the Malay language and does not know a word of the Chinese language.
	www.asiahomes.com /Singaporean.htm (1058 words)

	Chinese Language Programs in American Schools
		Turkey is planning to introduce Chinese classes, with efforts under way to begin instruction in a limited number of high schools as part of a pilot study, Education Minister Hüseyin Çelik said yesterday.
		Learning Chinese at school could be as common as taking Spanish, French or German in the near future, experts say.
		Forced to sign up for Chinese instead of popular options like French, German and English, Susana Galvan was resigned to learning a language she could see no job potential in.
	www.askasia.org /chinese/news.htm (1198 words)

	Hear ye! Hear ye! » Blog Archive » Racism in Singapore
		Yes, Chinese families have less kids nowadays because they are more educated (so to speak), and they have better financial planning to indicate how many children they should have(very few), in order to have quality-of-life.
		Resulting in a chinese dominant population within these schools, while I would not say that to focus on their mother tongue would directly result in students developing into racist adults, I do agree with you that providing an increased multi-racial element might encouraged better understanding between students of different racial origins.
		While you chose to attached Aaron’s idea of abolishment of SAP School system as making Chinese less Chinese as a form of racial motivated attack on their identity is of absurd linkage, if you have understood his words in context was to increase students awareness of diverse multicultural in a non-SAP system.
	www.aaron-ng.info /blog/racism-in-singapore.html (9462 words)

	Independent Society of the Blind (Singapore) Website - Blind Buzz
		With a total of 63 possible patterns formed from embossing some of these dots, the simple concept provides a sound framework for numerous people to devise representations of nearly all languages known, thus enabling blind people to be Iiterate in their own ways.
		As a consequence, most blind Chinese Singaporeans are, at the very best, verbally fluent in the language.
		Although Braille and available technology may not provide the best solutions, we are hopeful that with sufficient support from all sources, blind Singaporeans will soon be comfortably equipped with the necessary infrastructure to enjoy and appreciate the language to their fullest potentials.
	www.isbsingapore.com /buzz_tv.htm (828 words)

	Idle Days » The Great Language Debate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Singaporeans’ ability to communicate through written or spoken language is weak.
		You can instantly tell a Singaporean Chinese from other Chinese simply because the former is always tempted to speak half Chinese, half English with a smattering of lahs and lors thrown in for effect.
		I also agree that generally, Chinese Singaporeans in general lack the vocabulary to express themselves fluently in Mandarin without the use of English words/colloquialisms.
	www.idledays.net /?p=208 (1000 words)

	Boost for Chinese language: STAR
		The new generation of ethnic Chinese appears, under study pressures, to be continuing to downgrade the language, studying it only to pass exams and then quickly discarding it.
		About 25% of ethnic Chinese, aged 17 to 29, told a recent poll they did not think it was necessary for Chinese Singaporeans to speak Mandarin at all.
		Besides, Chinese is a tough language for the English-educated to master.
	www.singapore-window.org /sw04/041219st.htm (995 words)

	Asean Focus Group - Asian Analysis
		The issue of 'Chineseness', ethnic identity and the related issue of nationalism is sensitive since independence 37 years ago because Singapore is the only Chinese-majority state in the region.
		Due to the demographic transition, younger Singaporeans are marrying later and having less children, and this meant that in the past two decades, the government has quietly taken in a sizeable number of ethnic Chinese from Malaysia, China, Taiwan and Hong Kong to maintain the population ratio.
		About one in two Singaporeans gave an emphatic "no" when asked if they were willing to take a pay cut and pay higher taxes in the interest of their nation.
	www.aseanfocus.com /asiananalysis/article.cfm?articleID=255 (1092 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Recent comments from Chinese intellectuals and the lay public on what they see as school and university downgrades of Chinese, bear hints of a growing disenchantment.
		He said the bilingual policy was not being watered down by the easing of Chinese learning in school and its exclusion in computing scores for university admissions.
		It is also a psychic link between Singaporeans and their Eastern heritage, a tool with which to gain access to their considerable cultural richness.
	www.asu.edu /educ/epsl/LPRU/newsarchive/Art3682.txt (532 words)

	Useless rantings of a few disgruntled S'poreans...
		The legitimacy of the Singaporean government is predicated on the idea of a meritocratic technocracy.
		The rhetoric of meritocracy has given Singaporeans the consolation of believing that their ruling elite are the best of the best and can therefore be trusted almost blindly on important matters, even if they are highhanded and lack the common touch.
		In the long run, this is encourages Singaporeans to turn into ostriches who bury their heads in the sand whenever a problem crops up and hope someone solves their problem.
	disgruntledsporean.blogspot.com (8926 words)

	Racism in Singapore
		Face it, for whatever labels that are cast on non-chinese Singaporeans, I bet to my last dollar that you will find many Chinese Singaporeans that fit the label exactly.
		Before Chinese Singaporeans think badly of other races in Singapore, they ought to make sure that they have the moral authority to do so.
		I think that most Chinese Singaporeans should go spend some time in a place where they are the minority and see how it feels.
	www.littlespeck.com /content/people/CTrendsPeople-061019.htm (1346 words)

	The Ghosts of SIngapore
		Above all, it is the majority Chinese who have shaped the influence of supernatural belief in the island city-state known as the Lion City.
		And Chinese belief is set upon layers and layers of different pantheons, sets of myths and other indigenous beliefs integrated into the greater Chinese consciousness.
		The slaughter of anywhere between 5,000 and 50,000 Chinese Singaporeans by the Japanese during the Second World War represented a huge number of restless dead, in addition to the horrible human tragedy.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/east_asian_history/118781 (503 words)

	Chinese Cuisine
		With the Chinese forming a large proportion of the local population, locating eateries serving authentic Chinese cuisine does not pose a problem.
		This is the local favourite of all the Chinese cuisine.
		A popular choice at breakfast or lunch, these are steamed or deep-fried mini delicacies packed with a powerful punch—dumplings, buns or pastries stuffed with meat, sweet sauces or herbs.
	members.tripod.com /makanmakan/chinese.html (608 words)

	DimSumDolly: Native Speaker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Perhaps by virtue of the fact that I have a Chinese surname, he assumed that I was no "native speaker" of the language.
		For Singaporeans, terming Chinese/Malay/Tamil as one's mother tongue (which ever language one studies depending on one's race) is a misnomer.
		Imagine a Singaporean kid enrolling in a university miles from home, and discovering that his writing instructor is a Singaporean - if he's narrow-minded, he would think he's not getting his money's worth, and might resent the situation.
	www.dimsumdolly.com /archives/000430.html (1975 words)

	Microsoft Launches Innovative Chinese Teachersâ Portal to Promote Chinese Language and Literature Development in ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Chinese language teachers can log on to http://portal.sgchinese.innovativeteachers.com to register themselves as members and gain access to access to a library of resources including articles, tutorials and learning materials.
		We are privileged to be working with the Singapore Chinese Teachersâ Union and East Zone schools to enable and empower teachers to realize their full potential and the full potential of their students through the magic of software,â said Barney Lau, Managing Director, Microsoft Singapore.
		It will also extend the learning of Chinese beyond the confines of the classrooms and better equip teachers to provide their students with the best possible Chinese language education,â said Mr Yeo Guat Kwang, Executive Secretary of the Singapore Chinese Teachersâ Union and MP for Aljunied GRC.
	www.microsoft.com /singapore/mssg_docs/pr2006Apr06.aspx (713 words)

	Xinhua - English
		But the post-1965 generation of Chinese Singaporeans are used to speaking English in their daily lives.
		In order to get these young Singaporeans to gain a better appreciation of Chinese culture and tradition, local movie companies will participate in the campaign to offer an immersion in the world of mandarin films.
		The annual Speak Mandarin Campaign, launched in 1979, helps encourage Chinese ethnics with English education background to get familiar with Chinese culture and speak the Chinese language as much as possible in their daily life.
	news.xinhuanet.com /english/2006-10/23/content_5240142.htm?rss=1 (285 words)

	Singapore Food -- ThingsAsian Article
		Judging by their love for food and the extent they would travel to even the farthest corner of Singapore (although the island state is a mere 42 km from east to west and 23 km from north to south), it appears that the people in this nation state eat to live.
		Singapore, a multi-racial nation of Chinese, Malays, Indians and ethnic minorities, is a food haven.
		Chinese, Malay, Indian and Peranakan (Straits Chinese) stalls and restaurants rub shoulders with Japanese, American, French, Mexican and Mediterranean counterparts.
	www.thingsasian.com /goto_article/article.1419.html (2217 words)

	Biometric gonioscopy and the effects of age, race, and sex on the anterior chamber angle -- Congdon et al. 86 (1): 18 ...
		Chinese may be due to the higher prevalence of cataract or "creeping
		Hu Z, Zhao ZL, Dong FT. An epidemiologic investigation of glaucoma in Beijing and Shun-yi County (in Chinese).
		The prevalence of glaucoma in Chinese residents of Singapore: a cross-sectional population survey of the Tanjong Pagar district.
	bjo.bmjjournals.com /cgi/content/full/86/1/18 (2774 words)

	Move Over, Perth; S'porean Retirees Are Heading - Asia Finest Discussion Forum
		China is becoming the retirement destination of choice for middle-class Chinese Singaporeans enamoured of its diversity, rapid development and low cost of living.
		But several Singapore clubs and China-based Singaporeans say they know of an increasing number of retirees from the Republic and more considering the option.
		Singaporeans are apt to complain about hazardous traffic, the locals' spitting habits and the high cost of health care.
	www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=9537 (844 words)

	Hoa - China-related Topics HM-HP - China-Related Topics
		The Hoa (Chu Nom/Traditional Chinese characterChinese character: 華, Mandarin (linguistics)Mandarin: Yu??n??n hu??r??n (????????????), Cantonese (linguistics)Cantonese: yuet naam wah que (????????????), also referred to as either Chinese Vietnamese, Vietnamese Chinese, or ethnic Chinese from Vietnam, are a Chinese raceChinese ethnic minorityminority in Vietnam.
		Along with Kinhethnic Vietnamese, the Hoa are usually referred to as "Vietnamese" by the Mainland Chinese and Taiwanese.
		Due to the proximity of Vietnam to Guangdong province, Mainland China, and to Hong Kong, the Chinese Vietnamese have tended to retain the strongest ties and greater affinity to traditional Chinese culture, unlike many other overseas Chinese diasporas in Southeast Asia, especially in comparison to Chinese Filipinos, Chinese Thais, and westernized Chinese Singaporeans.
	www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Hoa (614 words)

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