3/26/2023

Pritam Singh's speak English only gaining support from English speakers here

A woman shopping at NTUC FairPrice expressed frustration about a Chinese employee’s inability to speak English and confronted management about their negligence to assess basic language requirements in their hiring process.

A 9-minute long TikTok posted by the woman, @Amy_tashiana, (which has since been moved to her YouTube page instead) shows her intense interaction with an NTUC employee, who was unable to converse in English with her while she was trying to purchase fresh fish....

Amy later went on to complain to a FairPrice team leader about the matter, who defended the employee saying that she has trouble communicating, to which Amy replied that she is unable to communicate at all, therefore not making her a right fit to work there.

“There’s a lady over there, she said that she is a Chinese national and she cannot commute (sic) in English, she said she don’t speak English at all so how we, customer and member of NTUC have such people to deal with?” Amy questioned. ...

After this discussion, Amy and the team leader went back to the employee at the fish section and with the assistance of the team leader, explained how she wanted the fish to be cut but was still unhappy with the final product as the staff had entirely cut off the tail of the fish, instead of just a fraction of it, which is what she wanted and deemed to be usual practice.

“She should know how to clean the fish lah, the tail also must cut like pedicure. Tail also don’t know how to cut then what is she doing there?” voiced out Amy.

“You want to employ me or not? I can cut the fish better than her. Put me there the same salary, take her out, I can cut the fish like a flower,” she added.

“She cutting fish but she don’t know how to cut fish,” she said in the video. “How long she working there already? Few months and she don’t know how to cut fish?” she questioned angrily.

“With all prices increased everywhere and got such service, especially in NTUC so I had decided to publish the video,” shared Amy with The Independent Singapore.

In her TikTok, Amy says “Pritam Singh you are absolutely right, they need to go and learn English before they come and work here.”...


Above are parts of an article in theindependent.sg about how intolerant a customer was with an NTUC staff who could not speak English. She demanded that such people cannot be employed by NTUC.

I can still remember that many Ah Mas and Ah Gongs admitted to hospital had difficulties communicating with the foreign staff as they could only speak in dialects. With this 'trend' to speak English only, I am wondering whether those Ah Mas and Ah Gongs should not be allowed admission into hospitals because they could not speak English? Or would they be bullied or chased out of the hospitals because the staff looked down on them because they could not speak English?

From the video clip, this @Amy_tashiana could speak Mandarin. Wondering why she refused to speak to her in Mandarin to communicate with her but insisting that the worker must speak in English. The purpose of learning more languages is to communicate with others in a language that both can understand. I learn Malay because I can speak to Malaysians in Malay when needed. It would be foolish and arrogantly stupid of me not to use Malay when the other person could only speak Malay but not English, and insisting the other person must speak to me in English even in Singapore... and acting that I am very smart or clever just because I could speak English.
 
A little knowledge is dangerous. The Chinese have a phrase for it, pua tang sai.

With Pritam Singh now becoming so popular with his no English cannot work in Singapore proposal, the MOM may want to consider this seriously and keep out all the Chinese from coming here to work. Their presence have made these English speaking 'experts' very irritated and unhappy. They may even get violent. Clever people only speak English in Singapore!

The next GE there would be many English speaking supporters voting for Pritam Singh and the WP. Pritam Singh and the WP would sure get a lot of votes from the English speakers. Not sure if the non English speaking Ah Mas and Ah Gongs would vote for them.

What do you think?

PS. If this Pritam proposal is to be adopted, then we should change our Constitution on the four official languages and just have one language, English only. Our national pledge about 'regardless of language' should be removed as well. What about the national anthem, change to English also?

36 comments:

Anonymous said...

speak volumes . . . .

According to The Independent Singapore website,

Publisher: Kumaran Pillai
Consulting Editor: Tan Bah Bah
Deputy Editor: Obbana Rajah
Assistant Editor: Nick Karean

Past Editors
Kumaran Pillai: June 2017 – Feb 2020
Ravi Philemon: Dec 2015 – May 2017
PN Balji: Aug 2013 – June 2014

Anonymous said...

From the account above it seems that the Auntie was not happy with a foreigner who don't speak English and work here. She might be jealous of her being able to find job here & she thinks that she could do a better job than her. She need to be more understanding as the job might be pretty tough as it requires long standing hours, smelly and need to withstand unreasonable demand of diverse customers, it not just simply cutting of a fish. Let's be a more reasonable person towards others not just foreigners.

Virgo49 said...

Good morning Mr RB and All

If Pritram Singh and his WP insisted that only speak English in Sinkieland, I bey the Hougang and the Other WP Constituencies would thrown them OUT wholesale the next GE.

Hougang was won as a breakthru by Mr LTK because of their Teochew Community and Unity.

Old uncles and aunties said wah piano cannot spat EngKok discriminated ah?

Go to HELL with your Eng Kok@

Actually, frankly Evil Serpents in all Govt Agencies usually spat with us old folks always Mandarain First as they always thought that we are mostly Chinese Helicopters of the early 60s and 70s.

Where got spat to us in Eng Kok?

Unless by the Indians and Malay who don't usually spat to us in Mandarin as understandable.

Now even Malays and some Indians spay even better Mandarin than our own Bananas Chinese.

Especially in Matland where they went to Chinese Vernacular Schools instead or their Mats Malay Centred Schools.

So what's the HELL this Woman of different ethnic race complaining?

Don't they know that in Singapore there are FOUR official Languages?

Even that Joan Periera spoke Mandarin in Parliament.

Why don't they also learnt others Languages?

Why so proud ah? Think only Engkok superior ah?

Tell that woman that one day she might even have to go to China and cut fish and also must know how to spat Mandarin.

Do think that the PRCs will stoop to her level when she is there cutting fish and demanded that she must spat Mandarin to them.

Well so smart in cutting fish buy one and go home and cut yourself lah.

Why made all this fuss?

Cook with tails or without tails also are within ten to twenty mins.

Sinkies waste time knowing only how to eat and fark.

That's all. Have something more worthwhile and challenging like how to invent technology and chips like the PRCs.

Cheers

Anonymous said...

aren't you a lifelong ardent wp supporter, redbean ?

Anonymous said...

Looks like USA Mafiaism is picking up and starting to be followed in Red Dot. The USA Mafia insisted that the Chinese Tiangong Space Station must use English manuals and have English signages on board, otherwise the Mafia state will not take part. As if the Chinese needed them on board very badly. The Chinese told the USA that they have nothing of value to contribute to space research and told them to go and screw spiders.

Now, if the Mafia woman thinks that it is below her banana status to shop at NTUC because some employees cannot speak English, she should go elsewhere, or find a spider to satify her demands.

I was just wondering, is this all because some 'you know who' is now sitting at the very top of NTUC and that complaints like this is going to work against non English speaking Chinese workers working in NTUC? Who is she anyway?

After more than 60 years of existence, and whose mission is to look after workers with cheaper stuff (wonder whether that is the case today) and not just bananas, is NTUC going to be demonised by employing only English speaking employees from some particular country? I am going to stop patronising NTUC if they do that. What about those elderly customers not understanding any English? Should they also start complaining if all or some NTUC employees cannot speak Mandarin, Teochew, Hokien or Hainanese?

There are now many supermarket chains posing strong competition for NTUC and they better think carefully about their re-orientation because of complaints like this. The are going to lose non English speaking customers, especially the elderly, if they make a costly mistake.

Anonymous said...

Sheng Siong! Sheng Siong! Sheng Siong! Sheng Siong! . .still our enclave !!

Anonymous said...

The name says it. Likely a local married to a foreigner so think angmoh tua kee. Didn't know that angmohs are now the new poor in the world. Want to go to China's Tiangong Space Station, must speak Chinese or else not welcome. Speak Ingrish or Singlish so great ah?

I think Hougang's Teochew Ah Peks And Ah Mas would tell Pritam and his WP 'ki hor lang pooh lah.'

Pooh bor kia! Tah angmoh chin sek chui meh? Chit kee lan!

Anonymous said...

Note Pritam WP's HQ at 701 Geylang Rd is not that far from Serangoon Rd Little India . . .

Anonymous said...

Ang Mo, Giant and Prime supermarkets have move into my family's shopping orbit, small they may be. Giant is admittedly not small, though some outlets do look small.

My children do some of their buying online, delivery even for free with relatively small orders.

Anonymous said...

China Is moving to Save the World from the Satanic American Empire:

Basically, there is a looming crisis of the US dollar at the same time that the Chinese are taking their place as the dominant world power. This is lining up with an emerging banking crisis.

Yesterday, I wrote that I don’t necessarily agree with predictions of immediate doom, but the claim that the banking system has backed itself into a corner is absolutely true. These people thought they were invincible and acted like they were invincible and as it turns out, they are not invincible. They are now forced to attempt to shore up their books while the Saudis and others draw knives.

They’ve walked straight into their own demise. No one forced them to do these Russian sanctions and prove all of the Chinese prophecies of lunatic mania. No one forced them to do the coronavirus hoax and follow it with an orchestrated collapse of the market that brought the US banking system to the brink. No one can predict how long this will take to play out, but the game is already over, and has been for some time.

China is now the global peace broker. They announced this last week with the incredible Saudi-Iran deal, now they are going to present their peace plan for the Ukraine, and the US is going to be forced to say “no, we want this war to continue until we can collapse the government of Russia, we don’t care how many people die or what it does to the global economy.

After the US is forced to make a big show of “war at any costs,” China then has a blank check from every allied country to do whatever it takes to put down this mad brute. If the US falls into the trap – and they almost certainly will, given what we’ve seen – and sanctions China with the same sanctions they’ve put on Russia, the house of cards falls. Further, China will be in a position to declare a formal blockade against the US.

The importance of the Iran-Saudi peace deal cannot be overstated. The China deal with Iran means that Saudi is solidly on China’s side. In the larger context, what this shows is that China is able to solve problems that were previously considered unsolvable in order to form strong alliances and is able to counter the US system of violence and threats by uniting people under a common goal of national independence underlined by a cooperative system of global trade.

It’s happening now. Moves are being made. China goes all in. Cards on the table.

Link to article:
https://www.unz.com/aanglin/china-is-playing-her-hand-moving-to-save-the-world-from-the-satanic-american-empire/

PS..just to be kaisu; Pritam should start learning and promoting the Mandarin language as Pax America is on its way out and Pax Sino is taking over very soon..

Anonymous said...

I think Pritam is finished. He has shown his hands too early for what he really stood for, not what Low Thia Kiang stood for. The Teochew supporters of Hougang would leave him high and dry.

He may bring WP down with him. Hougang Aljunied is now precarious and PAP would take full advantage of this mistake by Pritam.

Anonymous said...

This Angmo Tua Kee still think angmo
highly,the world alredy change, a lot bananas blind , China is raising
More and more people learning Chinese,except here

Virgo49 said...

https://www.asiaone.com/singapore/unreasonable-or-not-woman-berates-fairprice-staff-not-being-able-speak-english

Hi Anon 9.06

Go to this Link and see the photo of that auntie and this auntie.

She looked like a pariah foreigner from the planet of the apes. Blacker with a no know chap cheng name.

Previously also as I posted long ago when PRCs are here in numbers working in coffessshops and also departmental outlets, many Sinkies both bananas and other races especially the Indians are making hue and cry of these PRCs that cannot speak English just to please them.

How about so many Doctors from Philippines and Indians that cannot speak Chinese and Mandarin to our old Chinese folks.

Did we made so much fuss and complaints against them?

We are a tolerant and forgiving race and we just simply adjust and try to accommodate them.

But they are NOT to us.

Sickening

PRCs till today are still been looked down just because they are been improvised ages ago.

And Sinkies Chinese are likewise so. Just because we are a tolerant and non Agressive race.

We been the subjects of humiliations by many of the pariah who thought so highly of themselves just because we kept quiet and tolerant.

Anonymous said...

The recent China-Iran-Saudi peace summit was conducted successfully in Beijing with the English language totally banned.

Virgo49 said...

Hi Anon 11.49

Even Donald Trump's Little Girl whilst they are in China wayang sang a little Chinese song for Xi and hid wide.

Also learnt Mandarin as with many Whites nowadays who wanted even to stay in China rather than their own countries where they are even disillusioned with their own shits peoples.

This I called him Donald instead of Dotard.

Cheers

Virgo49 said...

Xi and his wife who smiled and clapped for her as graceful hosts.

Anonymous said...

China Rising, India Envy

The government of Honduras in Central America announced the breakdown of “diplomatic relations” with the Taiwan region on Saturday, saying it will have no more official relations or contact with the island moving forward.

The Secretary of State in the Offices of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has communicated to the island the decision to break off the two sides’ “diplomatic relations” with instructions from the Honduras President, said the announcement Honduras made to inform the Honduran people, the international community and the media.

Honduras recognizes the existence of only one China in the world, and that the Government of the People's Republic of China is the only legitimate government representing all of China with the Taiwan island as its inalienable territory, said the announcement.

Virgo49 said...

Aiya Anon 11.40

WP brought up mostly trivial issues not worth debating in the Parliament.

They are just PAP second team.

Anonymous said...

Put it this way, the white men are quite a remarkable civilisation, not dull and stupid like some third world countries. If not they would not be able to rule the third world people and countries for so long. But as the fortunes of countries would rise and fall, the time has come for them to decline and for the rise of China. Before the white men came, China was the most advanced country then.

With the changing of winds, no matter how smart the white men are, all the forces are turning against them. Look at their leadership? Mostly duds, cheats, conmen and people with not much talent and morals.

But generally the white men are still smarter than many of the third world people. Many of the white men have seen the changing of the guards and many have started to learn Chinese and speak excellent Chinese. They are preparing for the new world order when China and Chinese would be up there with the best in the world.

Some daft third world people are still sleeping and cannot see the change and still clinging to their old mentality that white men are superior and wanted to speak English, thinking English is superior. But this can be expected given their limited intellect.

Who would ever expect that white men would learn Chinese willingly, voluntarily? They learn Chinese to be able to communicate to 1.4b Chinese, the next biggest economy in the world, and likely the most advanced and progressive people, and very rich.

Anonymous said...

BRICS economic power is now bigger than G7.

According to the latest IMF’s World Economic Outlook Data Base, a comparative analysis of the percentage of global GDP adjusted for PPP between the G7 and BRICS made a surprising discovery: BRICS had surpassed the G7.

BRICS was responsible for 31.5 percent of the PPP-adjusted global GDP, while the G7 provided 30.7 percent, and the trend is pointing to a widening gap.

While G7 membership remains static, BRICS is growing, with Argentina and Iran having submitted applications, and other major regional economic powers, such as Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Egypt, expressing an interest in joining.

It helps explain why G7 sanctions on Russia has little serious negative effect.

Anonymous said...

The White men were able to rule the rest of the world basically with the use of force by the gun, which was backed by its economic power. They do not understand the meaning of being diplomatic or soft power. That is why they lost Africa. All they rely upon is pure brute force to put down militarily and economically any country that tries to rise or resist.

Japan and Germany were the ealier economic victims. And the USA thinks it can still work by using the same tactic to put down China and prevent it from rising. Today, using force against China is not a sure win situation, not with the Russians backing the Chinese. That is what is preventing the USA from using force against China. But they are testing, using the Taiwan issue. And they are trying very hard to break up the alliance between Russia and China, so that they can handle individually Russia first and then China. As it now shows, even handling Russia alone is more than a handful, even with the support of Nato.

So what does the USA been relying on in order to put China down? Using unproven national security fabrications to target Chinese manufacturing like Huawei and now TikTok. After all the years, they have not been able to prove that Huawei is a threat to their national security. They could not even provide one iota of evidence or proof, just drumming on fabricated lies.

And they have to make use of allies, and some unwillingly, like South Korea, to hit China's progress with its chip alliances, trade Wars, sanctions and threats. They could not do it on their own, because they already lost the competition to China in many fields. They need, just like gangsters, strength in numbers by creating alliance, to take on competitors. The USA knows it cannot challenge China by itself alone in chip manufacturing, which is their last bastion left to fight China, and have to leverage on the strengths of TSMC, Samsung and other Japanese chip manufacturers.

Interestingly, they are now getting more and more nervous and paranoid about India rising. Even more so now that India is announcing its ambition loudly and clearly. And Vietnam too, although a small country, is giving the USA a run for their money in manufacturing, forcing the USA to attempt to strangle them economically. All because some Chinese manufacturing, have in recent years, moved mostly to Vietnam and are setting up a successful manufacturing hub in Vietnam that makes the USA hysterical.

Anonymous said...

This is not surprising that by using the GDP (PPP) comparison basis, the BRICS countries have greater purchasing power using their own currencies than the USA and the West.

China GDP (in PPP terms) at US$30 trillion is already bigger than the USA at US$25 trillion and China's nominal GDP is catching up.

Little Britain claims to have a much bigger nominal GDP than Russia by more than a trillion, but using the PPP basis, Russia is far ahead of Little Britain. The same goes for all the other Western countries. While countries in the Global South have lower GDP (nominal) the same cannot be said of their purchasing power parity or PPP.

India's GDP (nominal) is only US$3.4 trillion and ranked 5th globally, but in PPP terms is US$11.6 trillion and third globally.

Taking these three BRICS countries alone you can see the difference they are making. And those countries intending to join BRICS are no small potatoes either, like Saudi Arabia.

Anonymous said...

USA now attacking Iranians in Syria. Why in Syria and not taking it out with Iran directly? Probably trying to start another front to get Russia diverted from Ukraine, perhaps with a false flag arising from an incident. Russia is already heavily involved in Syria. A false flag with a purported Iranian strike on Saudi Arabia, like what the Ukranians tried to do with Poland and blaming it on Russia will start the ball rolling out of control.

USA is very troubled and unhappy with the peace deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia, and now venting its anger on Iran. Why not attack Saudi Arabia? That it was China that brokered the peace deal is a hard pill to swallow for the world's paramount terrorist.

Trump categorically admitted that they had the oil in Syria. Never one to feel any sense of shame in stealing.

Anonymous said...

Singapore PM Lee to make official visit to China on Monday (March 27), will meet President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Qiang

So our MIW finally realised that Western banking system is in deep shit and they need a way out in order to preserve their lifestyles; no amount of money printing and raising the GST will work once TSHTF..

https://www.thestar.com.my/aseanplus/aseanplus-news/2023/03/26/singapore-pm-lee-to-make-official-visit-to-china-on-monday-march-27-will-meet-president-xi-jinping-and-premier-li-qiang

Anonymous said...

So what if you are English-speaking Singaporean, as long as you are Chinese in the eyes of the Americans:

After Chew’s testimony, Arkansas Republican Sen. Tom Cotton said the CEO should be “deported immediately” and banned from the United States, saying his defense of TikTok was “beneath contempt.” . . CNN, March 26

Virgo49 said...

Hi Anon 10.44

Don't be surprised that he be an emissary or errand boy for the UAssA for some solutions to help the Americunts out of their shits.

As China refused to see them and they are too desperate as deadline drawing nearer and nearer of their defaults that will lead to their total collapse.

Already hinted that must give and take and after helping the White Devils, they be at their EVIL ways again when they recovered.

Trying to act as a small fry World's Mediator to get recognition as what's they in the past waste resources and time for being a sucker to have that Dotard and Rocket Man Summit in Sinkieland.

The Arrogrant Americunts who only wanted to play tom foolery to past time that they are World's Nampar or Lampar ONE.

Anonymous said...

I speak english, mandarin and malay. It reflects badly on the woman who made a big fuss over the employee in Ntuc. The face, silly hat and attitude says it all. In this era of technology, the dumb nonok could have easily used a translate app to mitigate the language barrier.
Non english speaking thais, viets, Indonesians are pretty accommodating when foreigners use translate app in their respective countries.

Anonymous said...

Watch the incident on the video clip. The nonok spoke Mandarin a few times. She just refused to speak Mandarin to the NTUC staff.

Typical sarong party type of mentality. Ang Moh tua kee.

Anonymous said...

Hmmn . . so she got agenda .. and Pritam must've received many such complaints from many of his own kind, and bring up the English test for his own kind.

Anonymous said...

Pritam Singh can field Amy Tashiana as a WP candidate in the next GE.

Anonymous said...

She is so crass.

Anonymous said...

The supervisor should ask her to submit a written complaint. Then print her complaints for all to read and see how good is her Singlish. She would be lost for words.

Anonymous said...

People often think that only the rich and powerful would look down on the poor. Now we can see that the low down can also look down on others.

Clear eyed said...

Pritam Singh assumes that Singapore is a colony of the US.

Anonymous said...

I'm seeing a bit of hysteria here. No one was calling for an only English speaking Singapore. But that if you're in the service industry, it would be good if you can ALSO speak English to serve the rest of the public who don't speak your Mandarin, or Malay or Indian language only, wherever you came from to work here.

If you're here to live, the common language amongst the races is English, so do learn some English so that you can integrate better into our society.

Its not about political, class or racial leanings.
Its just being practical.

Virgo49 said...

Hey there are still hundreds of thousands old folks who don't speak English and thru cohesion have to speak Mandarin and also it's been a pain for them when others kept spaeking English to them. Also they are in the Majority of the Masses Here.

Why don't the Rest by right have to Learn and speak their dialets?

You are wrong that English is the common language here!

Fyi from early Singapore, most speak Malay and even illiterate Chinese Singaporeans also speak Pasar Malay to each other.

Cannot insists that now English is the common language just because now we had too many bananas been brainwashed and Converted to be WOGs. Also thought that this Language to their perceived Dream Heaven when they died.

Only egoistic and arrogrance thought that English id a Superior Language demanded this.

English is acutally been spoken widely here because of been a tool for Commercial Business as Sinkieland depended it in the past to survive and as a Trading Port.

If not LKY would NOT in the past insistsed of Mother Tongues Language Learning to preserve our Heritage and for the Chinese to learn the Common Language of Mandarin for their Unity.

Why? Because he could forsee that the 21st Century and beyond belonged to the Chinese that is the PRCs.

So bananas and also Others better buck and learn and speak Mandarin before it's too late and you all be left in the COLD.

That's I meant sleeping in the COLD unable to speak Mandarin for a living.

Just a lession and a reprimand from a hawker aunty in the ex. Lau Goh's Marine Parade Food Centre.

That popular Tow Huey Cheow Stall when a yuppie ordered his drink in English.

She yapped Chinese don't want to speak Chinese to me. Sia Suay.
Must speak English!