Language and inter-racial harmony: The Battle for English as Singapore lingua

• Main Author: CHAN, Margaret
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2016
• Subjects: Singapore; Nationalism; Language; Ethnicity; Lu Xun; Kuo Pao Kun; Wild Grass; Asian Studies; English Language and Literature; Linguistics
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1977; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3234/viewcontent/WildGrass__MownGrass__LuXun__KuoPaoKun__Ethnicity___Language_2016064.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Against the backdrop of world religious violence, Singapore is as a beacon of inter-ethnic harmony: A 2015 poll, carried out in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore, returned the unanimous verdict that it was Singapore that had made the most social progress among the four Chinese ethnic Chinese s...