Boycott CHY-NAH

[Mugwop]

I will video the scene for the LOLz.
If they threaten me i will stand my ground. If they keep on further, and if I have the "tool" - being a crazy, jaded New Yorker with an rather explosive temper - I will split open the head of the closest. Hopefully this will scare & send them running.



LOL you should join your bhais there

Bhais? That's not a word used by roc supporters

 

[Shantanu_Left]

I will video the scene for the LOLz.
If they threaten me i will stand my ground. If they keep on further, and if I have the "tool" - being a crazy, jaded New Yorker with an rather explosive temper - I will split open the head of the closest. Hopefully this will scare & send them running.

So you will burst into Kung-fu?

LOL you should join your bhais there

Why should I? I'm a Singaporean citizen and like it here. We're pretty multicultural over here: Chinese, Indians, Malays, Indonesians, Pinoy, White people, and many other ethnicities.

 

[baconlover]

Bhais? That's not a word used by roc supporters

human affair is not black and white, there's a whole spectrum.
how about if I tell you i have far, far more dealing with desi people than with TW people ?

Why should I? I'm a Singaporean citizen and like it here...

I'm just teasing you since you didn't catch the point at first.
Yes I know about Singapore.

So are you Tamil ?
If you're I have a question I've been wondering:
* what's the % of Singaporean-Tamil that speak Tamil ?
* what's the % of Singaporean-Tamil that speak/know Hindi ?

 

[Shantanu_Left]

Yes I know about Singapore.

So are you Tamil ?
If you're I have a question I've been wondering:
* what's the % of Singaporean-Tamil that speak Tamil ?
* what's the % of Singaporean-Tamil that speak/know Hindi ?

No, I am not a Tamilian but from Mumbai so I still have ties to the old country. I had applied for citizenship registration.

Most Singapore Tamils watch Bollywood (Hindi) movies and listen to Bollywood songs. So they can definitely understand a little Hindi. Very few would be fluent though so I speak to them in English. That's the same in India as well where the Tamilians are very assertive about their identity and refuse to speak Hindi.There are increasingly many non-Tamil Indians in S'pore, and there have been demands to legitimize the other languages as well, particularly, Bengali, Hindi, Telugu, and Punjabi. In the Singapore school system, Indian kids are allowed to learn a non-Tamil Indian language if they are non-Tamils. Of course I am far too old for all that as I had completed my education in India and Europe.

 

[baconlover]

there have been demands to legitimize the other languages as well, particularly, Bengali, Hindi, Telugu, and Punjabi.....

Jesus here we go - just let the Indians take diversity to the ridiculous Indian level.
f**king crap.

 

[Shantanu_Left]

Jesus here we go - just let the Indians take diversity to the ridiculous Indian level.
f**king crap.

The only reason the global Chinese speak standard Mandarin is because you all agree it's a common medium. In India, there is no such agreement although Hindi is quite close to being there. No non-Hindi speaker wants to accept it as their language. Same way, no Singaporean non-Tamil Indian wants to accept Tamil as the lingua franca. I proudly don't speak a word of Tamil despite being here so many years (well, I do speak a little out of respect as an average Yank speaks Spanish but that's about it).

I am a lot more comfortable with Urdu, Hindi, and Punjabi which means I am more mutually intelligible to Pakistanis than Southern Indians (although some of them may learn Hindi/Punjabi). I deal with a lot of Bangladeshis in my line of work, so I have picked up a smattering of Bengali in recent years. I also speak half-baked Marathi as I used to live in Mumbai. I also speak not bad Gujarati.

That's just the way Indians roll. We call it unity in diversity.

@Joe Shearer

 

[letsrock]

The only reason the global Chinese speak standard Mandarin is because you all agree it's a common medium. In India, there is no such agreement although Hindi is quite close to being there. No non-Hindi speaker wants to accept it as their language. Same way, no Singaporean non-Tamil Indian wants to accept Tamil as the lingua franca. I proudly don't speak a word of Tamil despite being here so many years (well, I do speak a little out of respect as an average Yank speaks Spanish but that's about it).

I am a lot more comfortable with Urdu, Hindi, and Punjabi which means I am more mutually intelligible to Pakistanis than Southern Indians (although some of them may learn Hindi/Punjabi). I deal with a lot of Bangladeshis in my line of work, so I have picked up a smattering of Bengali in recent years. I also speak half-baked Marathi as I used to live in Mumbai. I also speak not bad Gujarati.

That's just the way Indians roll. We call it unity in diversity.

@Joe Shearer

Hows hindi in anyway or form replace other languages. Most tamils, marathis, telugus, bengalis have just come from centures of extremely exploitative kings, british generals, sultans in the form of independence - now they suddenly need to speak another language just to have an identity of a nation? the reality is these people dont have a nation.