He is a Chinese from Guangdong, but he has always been reluctant to get close to China and has always kept his distance. He is fluent in Chinese, but insists on speaking English in China.
He has worked hard for half his life and has been campaigning for Singapore's independence and development, and is affectionately known by the Singaporean peopleThe "Founding Father of Singapore" is none other than Lee Kuan Yew, the famous founding father of Singapore.
However, even though Singapore is mostly Chinese, even though it became independent in the mid-to-late last centuryBut Lee Kuan Yew still bluntly said that it would not "return to the motherland"! Why?
When it comes to Singapore's path to independence, it's not easy. During the war, Singapore was a British colony, but after the end of World War II, it gained autonomy and became independent.
InLee Kuan Yew, the leader at the timeHowever, Lee Kuan Yew hoped to merge with the then Federation of Malaya (before the independence of Malaysia) to form "Malaysia", so that Singapore could make good use of and rely on Malaya's resources to provide security for its own development.
However, although the "new horse" was successfully merged, it was full of hidden dangers. The Malays don't like Chinese-dominated Singapore, and they think that Singapore, with the Chinese as the main power, wants to be on an equal footing with them, which is very ridiculous.
As a result, well-intentioned people began to incite the Malays in Singapore to oppose Singapore** at that time. The conflict between Singapore and Malaysia is on the verge of breaking outJust a year after the merger, Singapore was "kicked out of the group chat".
Seeing that there was no one to rely on, Lee Kuan Yew and others were in trouble. However, instead of throwing in the towel, they proclaimed the Republic of Singapore.
And actively carry out diplomacy, attracted a lot of sponsorship, with the superior geographical location and developed port resources began to become prosperous.
Gradually, Singapore regained its vitality and even developed into one of the "Asian Tigers", which is not an easy journey.
Due to its geographical proximity to China, soAs early as hundreds of years ago, Chinese people in Singapore set foot and stayed there, slowly forming a large Chinese community.
Singapore's founding father, Lee Kuan Yew, is a Chinese whose ancestral home is Guangdong, but he received a British education since he was a child, and later won the Queen of the British Empire Scholarship with excellent grades to study in the United Kingdom.
Maybe it's because of the influence of your education experience in the UK, he became a "**" with fierce negative feelings towards the Communist Party and the Soviet Union.
It is also on this basis that Singapore, under the leadership of Lee Kuan Yew, has not had a good impression of **, and its attitude towards China is not very good. Lee Kuan Yew was even more outspokenSingapore will be the last ASEAN country to establish diplomatic relations with China.
He said so and did so. Because of the heightened resistance to communism and the fact that Lee Kuan Yew's ideology was biased towards the West, he turned his back on the red blood flowing in his body for the sake of the country's future, and was willing to let Singapore follow the United States.
As a result, the contradictions between Singapore and China are getting deeper and deeper, although the war has ended, and the situation of world peace has been slowly determined, but in order to be able to further develop, Singapore is forced by the pressure of the situation and the difference in political form, he still said that it will become the last country in ASEAN to establish diplomatic relations with China.
Although the economic, trade and cultural exchanges between China and New Zealand have already begunHowever, it was not until 1990, after the resumption of diplomatic relations between China and Indonesia, that China and Singapore officially announced the establishment of diplomatic relations.
It is worth mentioning that Lee Kuan Yew once visited China during thatAlways deliberately avoid speaking Chinese, insisting on translating in EnglishThis, of course, offended many Chinese people and considered him to have "betrayed" China.
In addition to the same Huang **, Lee Kuan Yew's "Chinese" origin has long been known to the world, everyone knows that he is very proficient in Chinese, but he just doesn't say it.
After all, it is a visit to China and the establishment of diplomatic relations with China. Wouldn't it be more efficient if you could communicate in Chinese? Why did Lee Kuan Yew have to go against the grain and use English to "put on a façade"?
It turns out that all these actions are to "satisfy" the developed countries of Western capitalism behind Singapore and to "avoid suspicion"!
At the same time, in order to prevent Western countries from thinking that they are "looking for their roots" when they visit China, Lee Kuan Yew is also very cautious in selecting diplomatic teamsDeliberately looking for diplomats of different nationalities and even different races to accompany themJust to avoid extraneous branches, it is indeed helpless.
Actually, this is also understandable. After all, Singapore's geographical location is special, and it has been expelled by the Malays, if you want to survive, you must rely on the capital power, and under this premise, it is understandable to develop English into the first language of the country, so that all children can learn English from birth.
Only by being proficient in the international common language can we be more handy in international and world cultural exchanges, and bring more opportunities for development to our country.
Lee Kuan Yew said that when he was young, he experienced first-hand the dilemma of being marginalized by the world because he could only speak Chinese, so he never wanted his people to go through such a dilemma again.
Looking at it this way, Lee Kuan Yew is actually walking when he speaks English and promotes EnglishInternational routes. It's a pity that while he promoted English, he also cut off Chinese education in Singapore.
In the early days of Singapore, when Lee Kuan Yew first came to power, he chose to promote Chinese-English bilingual education in the country.
However, his emphasis on using rote memorization to promote the Chinese language has made many Singaporeans lose interest in the Chinese language, which has fundamentally disgusted Singaporeans and ruined the future of Chinese in Singapore.
At the same time, in order to be able to better develop English education in the country,In 1980, Lee Kuan Yew personally closed Nanyang University, the only Chinese universitySince then, the Chinese language has lost its vitality in Singapore.
Singapore could have become the largest Chinese-language center and Chinese gathering in Southeast Asia and even overseas, but under Lee Kuan Yew's leadership, that possibility has disappeared.
Looking back on Lee Kuan Yew's life, there have been glorious and ups and downs. As a Chinese, he has always been forced to "avoid suspicion" of China, and it is really undesirable for him to ruin the future of Chinese education in this gathering place of Chinese in Southeast Asia.
However, people have two sides, and Lee Kuan Yew, as the founding father of Singapore, has indeed exhausted his efforts for Singapore's development.
Today, China and Singapore have worked together for common development, and we hope that in the future, there will be more opportunities for cooperation between the two countries, so that more Chinese Singaporeans can come to China to "seek their roots".