Speak Mandarin Campaign - Revision history

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	=== 2009/10: "Be Heard In Chinese" ===		=== 2009/10: "Be Heard In Chinese" ===
	~~[[File:Speak mandarin campaign pic.jpg\|thumb\|right\|Screenshot of the SMC video showing a foreign girl speaking Mandarin]]~~
	{{lang\|zh-Hans\|华文？谁怕谁}}<br />		{{lang\|zh-Hans\|华文？谁怕谁}}<br />
	The campaign opened with videos of foreign children speaking fluent Chinese, intended to show that Mandarin was learnable by anyone, not solely those of Chinese descent.<ref>[http://www.google.com.sg/webhp?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8#q=2009+Speak+Mandarin+Campaign&hl=en&rlz=1R2TSHS_en&prmd=v&source=univ&tbs=vid:1&tbo=u&ei=XVzRTO2zK4mivgPBgtm5DA&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&ct=title&resnum=5&ved=0CC0QqwQwBA&fp=220c1d7a6daf9651 2009 Speak Mandarin Campaign video]</ref> The Promote Mandarin Council<ref>[http://www.mandarin.org.sg/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=51&Itemid=79&lang=en The Promote Mandarin Council] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101113105743/http://www.mandarin.org.sg/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=51&Itemid=79&lang=en \|date=13 November 2010 }}</ref> said the videos were meant not to mock Chinese Singaporeans who could not speak Chinese, but to encourage parents to create a home learning environment.<ref>[http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1067794/1/.html Speak Mandarin Campaign returns to promote language through culture] Channel News Asia online, 6 July 2010</ref> In 2010 the campaign introduced "The Chinese Challenge",<ref name="华文?谁怕谁! 2010 总决赛" /> an online contest open to Singaporeans and permanent residents, later adding a student category to reach more youths.<ref>{{in lang\|zh}}[http://www.zaobao.com.sg/edu/pages4/edulive100707.shtml "华文？谁怕谁！" 猜谜比赛增设学生组 ] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120305155843/http://www.zaobao.com.sg/edu/pages4/edulive100707.shtml \|date=5 March 2012 }} 联合早报网，7 September 2010</ref>		The campaign opened with videos of foreign children speaking fluent Chinese, intended to show that Mandarin was learnable by anyone, not solely those of Chinese descent.<ref>[http://www.google.com.sg/webhp?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8#q=2009+Speak+Mandarin+Campaign&hl=en&rlz=1R2TSHS_en&prmd=v&source=univ&tbs=vid:1&tbo=u&ei=XVzRTO2zK4mivgPBgtm5DA&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&ct=title&resnum=5&ved=0CC0QqwQwBA&fp=220c1d7a6daf9651 2009 Speak Mandarin Campaign video]</ref> The Promote Mandarin Council<ref>[http://www.mandarin.org.sg/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=51&Itemid=79&lang=en The Promote Mandarin Council] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101113105743/http://www.mandarin.org.sg/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=51&Itemid=79&lang=en \|date=13 November 2010 }}</ref> said the videos were meant not to mock Chinese Singaporeans who could not speak Chinese, but to encourage parents to create a home learning environment.<ref>[http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1067794/1/.html Speak Mandarin Campaign returns to promote language through culture] Channel News Asia online, 6 July 2010</ref> In 2010 the campaign introduced "The Chinese Challenge",<ref name="华文?谁怕谁! 2010 总决赛" /> an online contest open to Singaporeans and permanent residents, later adding a student category to reach more youths.<ref>{{in lang\|zh}}[http://www.zaobao.com.sg/edu/pages4/edulive100707.shtml "华文？谁怕谁！" 猜谜比赛增设学生组 ] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120305155843/http://www.zaobao.com.sg/edu/pages4/edulive100707.shtml \|date=5 March 2012 }} 联合早报网，7 September 2010</ref>

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	{{lang\|zh-Hans\|华文？谁怕谁}}<br />		{{lang\|zh-Hans\|华文？谁怕谁}}<br />
	The campaign opened with videos of foreign children speaking fluent Chinese, intended to show that Mandarin was learnable by anyone, not solely those of Chinese descent.<ref>[http://www.google.com.sg/webhp?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8#q=2009+Speak+Mandarin+Campaign&hl=en&rlz=1R2TSHS_en&prmd=v&source=univ&tbs=vid:1&tbo=u&ei=XVzRTO2zK4mivgPBgtm5DA&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&ct=title&resnum=5&ved=0CC0QqwQwBA&fp=220c1d7a6daf9651 2009 Speak Mandarin Campaign video]</ref> The Promote Mandarin Council<ref>[http://www.mandarin.org.sg/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=51&Itemid=79&lang=en The Promote Mandarin Council] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101113105743/http://www.mandarin.org.sg/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=51&Itemid=79&lang=en \|date=13 November 2010 }}</ref> said the videos were meant not to mock Chinese Singaporeans who could not speak Chinese, but to encourage parents to create a home learning environment.<ref>[http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1067794/1/.html Speak Mandarin Campaign returns to promote language through culture] Channel News Asia online, 6 July 2010</ref> In 2010 the campaign introduced "The Chinese Challenge",<ref name="华文?谁怕谁! 2010 总决赛" /> an online contest open to Singaporeans and permanent residents, later adding a student category to reach more youths.<ref>{{in lang\|zh}}[http://www.zaobao.com.sg/edu/pages4/edulive100707.shtml "华文？谁怕谁！" 猜谜比赛增设学生组 ] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120305155843/http://www.zaobao.com.sg/edu/pages4/edulive100707.shtml \|date=5 March 2012 }} 联合早报网，7 September 2010</ref>		The campaign opened with videos of foreign children speaking fluent Chinese, intended to show that Mandarin was learnable by anyone, not solely those of Chinese descent.<ref>[http://www.google.com.sg/webhp?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8#q=2009+Speak+Mandarin+Campaign&hl=en&rlz=1R2TSHS_en&prmd=v&source=univ&tbs=vid:1&tbo=u&ei=XVzRTO2zK4mivgPBgtm5DA&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&ct=title&resnum=5&ved=0CC0QqwQwBA&fp=220c1d7a6daf9651 2009 Speak Mandarin Campaign video]</ref> The Promote Mandarin Council<ref>[http://www.mandarin.org.sg/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=51&Itemid=79&lang=en The Promote Mandarin Council] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101113105743/http://www.mandarin.org.sg/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=51&Itemid=79&lang=en \|date=13 November 2010 }}</ref> said the videos were meant not to mock Chinese Singaporeans who could not speak Chinese, but to encourage parents to create a home learning environment.<ref>[http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1067794/1/.html Speak Mandarin Campaign returns to promote language through culture] Channel News Asia online, 6 July 2010</ref> In 2010 the campaign introduced "The Chinese Challenge",<ref name="华文?谁怕谁! 2010 总决赛" /> an online contest open to Singaporeans and permanent residents, later adding a student category to reach more youths.<ref>{{in lang\|zh}}[http://www.zaobao.com.sg/edu/pages4/edulive100707.shtml "华文？谁怕谁！" 猜谜比赛增设学生组 ] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120305155843/http://www.zaobao.com.sg/edu/pages4/edulive100707.shtml \|date=5 March 2012 }} 联合早报网，7 September 2010</ref>

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	=== 2011/12: "Mandarin. It Gets Better With Use" ===		=== 2011/12: "Mandarin. It Gets Better With Use" ===

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	[[Malay Singaporeans\|Malay]] and [[Indian Singaporean\|Indian]] Singaporeans have argued that promoting Mandarin weakens English's role as Singapore's lingua franca and risks marginalising minority groups. Hokkien and Malay historically served as languages of the Straits Chinese ([[Peranakan]]), and Singaporean Hokkien contains notable Malay loanwords, and vice versa; in the early-to-mid 20th century, [[Malay trade and creole languages#Singapore Bazaar Malay\|Bazaar Malay]] emerged as a confluence of Malay, Hokkien, Tamil, English and other Chinese varieties.<ref name="BLL">Barbara Leitch Lepoer, ed. (1989), "[http://countrystudies.us/singapore/20.htm Singapore: A Country Study]", U.S. Library of Congress.</ref> Some have raised concern that Mandarin fluency requirements have been used to disadvantage non-Chinese job applicants, notwithstanding employment laws prohibiting racial discrimination.<ref name="BLL" />		[[Malay Singaporeans\|Malay]] and [[Indian Singaporean\|Indian]] Singaporeans have argued that promoting Mandarin weakens English's role as Singapore's lingua franca and risks marginalising minority groups. Hokkien and Malay historically served as languages of the Straits Chinese ([[Peranakan]]), and Singaporean Hokkien contains notable Malay loanwords, and vice versa; in the early-to-mid 20th century, [[Malay trade and creole languages#Singapore Bazaar Malay\|Bazaar Malay]] emerged as a confluence of Malay, Hokkien, Tamil, English and other Chinese varieties.<ref name="BLL">Barbara Leitch Lepoer, ed. (1989), "[http://countrystudies.us/singapore/20.htm Singapore: A Country Study]", U.S. Library of Congress.</ref> Some have raised concern that Mandarin fluency requirements have been used to disadvantage non-Chinese job applicants, notwithstanding employment laws prohibiting racial discrimination.<ref name="BLL" />

			Tensions over the campaign resurfaced during the January 1991 Shared Values White Paper debate, when [[Chiam See Tong]] cited the SMC, alongside [[Group representation constituency\|GRCs]] and racial enclaves, as a government policy that had "heightened racial awareness" in Singapore rather than reduced it.<ref name="hansard1991sharedvalues">Parliament of Singapore, ''Official Report'', Parliament No. 7, Session No. 2, Vol. 56, Sitting No. 13, 15 January 1991, "Shared Values (Motion)", cols. 885, 911.</ref> [[Yu-Foo Yee Shoon\|Mrs Yu-Foo Yee Shoon]] rejected the characterisation, saying Malay and Indian participants at Feedback Unit dialogue sessions had themselves supported the shift from dialects to Mandarin.<ref name="hansard1991sharedvalues" />
			: ''See also: [[Speak Mandarin Campaign/Hansard excerpts]]''

			=== 1990: Singapore Democratic Party controversy ===
			In October 1990, the [[Singapore Democratic Party]] (SDP) issued a statement warning that government efforts to get Chinese Singaporeans to speak Mandarin at work would "disturb ethnic harmony", and separately accused the government of using the SMC as a "government propaganda ploy to win Chinese votes" while denying it was itself trying to win Malay votes.<ref name="st1990sdp">"[https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/stoverseas19901027-1.2.6.19 SDP taken to task over campaign remark]", ''The Straits Times'' (Overseas edition), 27 October 1990, p. 6.</ref> Two PAP MPs publicly rebutted the party over the remark. [[Ow Chin Hock\|Dr Ow Chin Hock]] (Leng Kee) questioned the SDP's motives for the second time that week, asking: "Isn't the accusation itself politically motivated?" He argued that many Chinese Singaporeans had "accepted and supported the campaign all these years" because they saw its benefits, and asked whether the SDP believed Chinese voters "could be taken in so easily".<ref name="st1990sdp" /> He also asked whether the SDP was trying to "whip up the feelings of some non-Chinese against the Speak Mandarin Campaign", and called for an end to "all these divisive accusations".<ref name="st1990sdp" />

			[[Ho Kah Leong]], described in the report as the Mandarin campaign committee chairman, responded that it was "well-known" the campaign was aimed at dialect-speaking Chinese Singaporeans, not at non-Chinese Singaporeans.<ref name="st1990sdp" /> Separately, at a Mandarin campaign function in [[Bukit Batok]] that Saturday, MP [[Ong Chit Chung]] said the campaign was "a cultural programme, not a political one", and that "those in the opposition who make a political issue out of this worthy programme are doing a disservice to the community and to Singapore".<ref name="st1990sdp" />

			=== 1991: Shared Values debate ===
	Tensions over the campaign resurfaced during the January 1991 Shared Values White Paper debate, when [[Chiam See Tong]] cited the SMC, alongside [[Group representation constituency\|GRCs]] and racial enclaves, as a government policy that had "heightened racial awareness" in Singapore rather than reduced it.<ref name="hansard1991sharedvalues">Parliament of Singapore, ''Official Report'', Parliament No. 7, Session No. 2, Vol. 56, Sitting No. 13, 15 January 1991, "Shared Values (Motion)", cols. 885, 911.</ref> [[Yu-Foo Yee Shoon\|Mrs Yu-Foo Yee Shoon]] rejected the characterisation, saying Malay and Indian participants at Feedback Unit dialogue sessions had themselves supported the shift from dialects to Mandarin.<ref name="hansard1991sharedvalues" />		Tensions over the campaign resurfaced during the January 1991 Shared Values White Paper debate, when [[Chiam See Tong]] cited the SMC, alongside [[Group representation constituency\|GRCs]] and racial enclaves, as a government policy that had "heightened racial awareness" in Singapore rather than reduced it.<ref name="hansard1991sharedvalues">Parliament of Singapore, ''Official Report'', Parliament No. 7, Session No. 2, Vol. 56, Sitting No. 13, 15 January 1991, "Shared Values (Motion)", cols. 885, 911.</ref> [[Yu-Foo Yee Shoon\|Mrs Yu-Foo Yee Shoon]] rejected the characterisation, saying Malay and Indian participants at Feedback Unit dialogue sessions had themselves supported the shift from dialects to Mandarin.<ref name="hansard1991sharedvalues" />
	: ''See also: [[Speak Mandarin Campaign/Hansard excerpts]]''		: ''See also: [[Speak Mandarin Campaign/Hansard excerpts]]''

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	=== 1994: the campaign turns to English-educated professionals ===		=== 1994: the campaign turns to English-educated professionals ===
	During the [[1991 Singaporean general election]], the governing [[People's Action Party]] (PAP) retained its [[supermajority]] but with a smaller seat share than before, partly because opposition candidates tapped into the linguistic anxieties of [[working class]] Chinese Singaporeans who spoke non-Mandarin varieties — some of whom held onto their own languages as identity markers and refused to enrol children in Mandarin-named schools.<ref name="Liew">{{cite journal\|first=Kai Khiun\|last=Liew\|title=Limited Pidgen-Type Patois? Policy, Language, Technology, Identity and the Experience of Canto-Pop in Singapore\|journal=Popular Music\|volume=22\|issue=2\|date=May 2003\|pages=217–233\|doi=10.1017/s0261143003003131\|hdl=10356/92192 \|s2cid=157117546 \|url=https://dr.ntu.edu.sg/bitstream/10220/6805/1/limitedpidgin%5b2%5d.pdf}}</ref>		During the [[1991 General Election\|1991 Singaporean general election]], the governing [[People's Action Party]] (PAP) retained its [[supermajority]] but with a smaller seat share than before, partly because opposition candidates tapped into the linguistic anxieties of [[working class]] Chinese Singaporeans who spoke non-Mandarin varieties — some of whom held onto their own languages as identity markers and refused to enrol children in Mandarin-named schools.<ref name="Liew">{{cite journal\|first=Kai Khiun\|last=Liew\|title=Limited Pidgen-Type Patois? Policy, Language, Technology, Identity and the Experience of Canto-Pop in Singapore\|journal=Popular Music\|volume=22\|issue=2\|date=May 2003\|pages=217–233\|doi=10.1017/s0261143003003131\|hdl=10356/92192 \|s2cid=157117546 \|url=https://dr.ntu.edu.sg/bitstream/10220/6805/1/limitedpidgin%5b2%5d.pdf}}</ref>

	In response, the PAP government shifted the campaign's focus away from non-Mandarin varieties and toward encouraging English-speaking, educated Chinese Singaporeans to use more Mandarin.<ref name="Liew" /> In 1994 the SMC specifically targeted English-educated business professionals and working adults, framing Mandarin use as a way to maintain cultural "roots" while complementing the commercial opportunities of [[Rise of China\|China's economic rise]]. By 2010, through "The Chinese Challenge" online contest,<ref name="华文?谁怕谁! 2010 总决赛">{{in lang\|zh}}[http://www.thechinesechallenge.sg/ 华文?谁怕谁! 2010 总决赛] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110429015213/http://www.thechinesechallenge.sg/ \|date=29 April 2011 }}</ref> the campaign had shifted further toward a cultural framing, encouraging Singaporeans to understand their own heritage rather than simply speak the language.		In response, the PAP government shifted the campaign's focus away from non-Mandarin varieties and toward encouraging English-speaking, educated Chinese Singaporeans to use more Mandarin.<ref name="Liew" /> In 1994 the SMC specifically targeted English-educated business professionals and working adults, framing Mandarin use as a way to maintain cultural "roots" while complementing the commercial opportunities of [[Rise of China\|China's economic rise]]. By 2010, through "The Chinese Challenge" online contest,<ref name="华文?谁怕谁! 2010 总决赛">{{in lang\|zh}}[http://www.thechinesechallenge.sg/ 华文?谁怕谁! 2010 总决赛] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110429015213/http://www.thechinesechallenge.sg/ \|date=29 April 2011 }}</ref> the campaign had shifted further toward a cultural framing, encouraging Singaporeans to understand their own heritage rather than simply speak the language.

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	=== 1981: Parliamentary debate over dialect television and Hanyu Pinyin names ===		=== 1981: Parliamentary debate over dialect television and Hanyu Pinyin names ===
	: ''See also: [[~~Ministry of Culture Budget Debate 1981~~]]''		: ''See also: [[Speak Mandarin Campaign/Hansard excerpts]]''
	During the Committee of Supply debate on the Ministry of Culture's budget on 25 March 1981, MP [[Ho See Beng]] (Khe Bong) told Parliament that the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation had "gone a bit too far" in dubbing Cantonese television serials into Mandarin as part of the campaign, arguing that "learning to speak Mandarin is not something that one can do in a day" and urging the government to "leave the dialects to sink or swim by themselves" rather than compel the shift through broadcasting policy.<ref name="hansard1981budget">Parliament of Singapore, ''Official Report'', Parliament No. 5, Session No. 1, Vol. 40, Sitting No. 14, 25 March 1981, "Budget, Ministry of Culture", cols. 1198–1200.</ref> Senior Minister of State for Culture [[Chai Chong Yii]] replied that while dubbing technique could be improved, removing dialect programmes from television was "only a small price" older, dialect-speaking Singaporeans had to pay "for the long-term benefit of their children", and that the government needed to be "courageous enough to take such drastic measures... to drive home the point that Mandarin is to be made the common language of the younger generation of Chinese Singaporeans."<ref name="hansard1981budget" /> Ho withdrew his amendment after Chai's reply.<ref name="hansard1981budget" />		During the Committee of Supply debate on the Ministry of Culture's budget on 25 March 1981, MP [[Ho See Beng]] (Khe Bong) told Parliament that the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation had "gone a bit too far" in dubbing Cantonese television serials into Mandarin as part of the campaign, arguing that "learning to speak Mandarin is not something that one can do in a day" and urging the government to "leave the dialects to sink or swim by themselves" rather than compel the shift through broadcasting policy.<ref name="hansard1981budget">Parliament of Singapore, ''Official Report'', Parliament No. 5, Session No. 1, Vol. 40, Sitting No. 14, 25 March 1981, "Budget, Ministry of Culture", cols. 1198–1200.</ref> Senior Minister of State for Culture [[Chai Chong Yii]] replied that while dubbing technique could be improved, removing dialect programmes from television was "only a small price" older, dialect-speaking Singaporeans had to pay "for the long-term benefit of their children", and that the government needed to be "courageous enough to take such drastic measures... to drive home the point that Mandarin is to be made the common language of the younger generation of Chinese Singaporeans."<ref name="hansard1981budget" /> Ho withdrew his amendment after Chai's reply.<ref name="hansard1981budget" />

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	=== 1981: Parliamentary debate over dialect television and Hanyu Pinyin names ===		=== 1981: Parliamentary debate over dialect television and Hanyu Pinyin names ===
	: ''See also: [[~~Speak Mandarin Campaign/Hansard excerpts~~]]''		: ''See also: [[Ministry of Culture Budget Debate 1981]]''
	During the Committee of Supply debate on the Ministry of Culture's budget on 25 March 1981, MP [[Ho See Beng]] (Khe Bong) told Parliament that the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation had "gone a bit too far" in dubbing Cantonese television serials into Mandarin as part of the campaign, arguing that "learning to speak Mandarin is not something that one can do in a day" and urging the government to "leave the dialects to sink or swim by themselves" rather than compel the shift through broadcasting policy.<ref name="hansard1981budget">Parliament of Singapore, ''Official Report'', Parliament No. 5, Session No. 1, Vol. 40, Sitting No. 14, 25 March 1981, "Budget, Ministry of Culture", cols. 1198–1200.</ref> Senior Minister of State for Culture [[Chai Chong Yii]] replied that while dubbing technique could be improved, removing dialect programmes from television was "only a small price" older, dialect-speaking Singaporeans had to pay "for the long-term benefit of their children", and that the government needed to be "courageous enough to take such drastic measures... to drive home the point that Mandarin is to be made the common language of the younger generation of Chinese Singaporeans."<ref name="hansard1981budget" /> Ho withdrew his amendment after Chai's reply.<ref name="hansard1981budget" />		During the Committee of Supply debate on the Ministry of Culture's budget on 25 March 1981, MP [[Ho See Beng]] (Khe Bong) told Parliament that the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation had "gone a bit too far" in dubbing Cantonese television serials into Mandarin as part of the campaign, arguing that "learning to speak Mandarin is not something that one can do in a day" and urging the government to "leave the dialects to sink or swim by themselves" rather than compel the shift through broadcasting policy.<ref name="hansard1981budget">Parliament of Singapore, ''Official Report'', Parliament No. 5, Session No. 1, Vol. 40, Sitting No. 14, 25 March 1981, "Budget, Ministry of Culture", cols. 1198–1200.</ref> Senior Minister of State for Culture [[Chai Chong Yii]] replied that while dubbing technique could be improved, removing dialect programmes from television was "only a small price" older, dialect-speaking Singaporeans had to pay "for the long-term benefit of their children", and that the government needed to be "courageous enough to take such drastic measures... to drive home the point that Mandarin is to be made the common language of the younger generation of Chinese Singaporeans."<ref name="hansard1981budget" /> Ho withdrew his amendment after Chai's reply.<ref name="hansard1981budget" />

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