PM Lee: Mother Tongue still vital?

As generations passed, slowly, we see a steady increase in dominance of western cultures spreading across after each passing generation. If this continues, gradually, mother tongue cultures will be slowly diminishing in this world. Therefore, I agreed in Mr Lee saying of ‘Mother tongue education is still vital.’ Mother tongue is definitely still essential as of this generation and in the future as well, after all, it is something that we are ‘born’ with it and are being recognized at. Mother tongue is just like a base of our knowledge, and also it signify the root of each different cultures and races, without this ground or base, it is equivalent to planting a seed onto a ground without giving it a proper care, and hence, it will not grow. There goes in applying our knowledge into mother tongue languages. If this negligence towards mother tongue languages continues, this will causes local cultures to be lost. When that happens, this will affect foreign sector’s economy in our country thereupon this may directly affect society-at-large for businesses as foreigners will no longer take interest of local cultures, this may contribute to loss of investments from foreigners and as well as loss of revenues earned from the foreign sector thus creating problems like recession, unemployment. Therefore, Mother tongue education is definitely still vital in Singapore.

xoxo, ShuMei