Have fun but don't denigrate others: DPM Teo
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By S Ramesh | Posted: 07 April 2012 1311 hrs
SINGAPORE: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs Teo Chee Hean said organisations which want to be creative must be mindful of the values of the races and religions in Singapore.
Mr Teo said this on the sidelines of a community event at Sengkang Community Club.
He was responding to a question from the media on the recent unhappiness in the Catholic community caused by advertisements on the Escape Chapel Party, which used posters featuring women in nun outfits.
"It is good for people to have fun and it is nice to have creative ideas," Mr Teo said.
"But I think it is totally possible to do that without denigrating what others hold most dearly and who feel most strongly about.
"This is a multi-racial society, multi-religious society. Go out and have fun but don't do it at other people's expense."
Police are investigating if the organiser had put up insensitive advertisements that could have offended the Catholic faith.
The organiser had cancelled the event, which was to take place on Saturday at Chijmes.
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Talked as if he is so very kind. Hypocrite!
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usual.
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A place of worship should not suffer disrespect- this lovely Cathedral/chapel and former convent has great heritage value and religious history should not have been turned into an F & B and entertainment fun place(HUB) in the first place
Teo should have had a word with URA! That place was a respectable convent with a chapel-why did they turn it into tourist shops, restuarants, cafes and pubs to start with? We must all (including URA AND SLA) learn to respect values, religion and heritage!
Now are they still going ahead to dig up the early pioneers of Singapore at Bukti Brown?
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As usual our "nanny state" finding excuse to issue all
participating parties a " Monetary Fine "
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Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs Teo Chee Hean said organisations which want to be creative must be mindful of the values of the races and religions in Singapore.
"This is a multi-racial society, multi-religious society. Go out and have fun but don't do it at other people's expense."Dialects are vulgar, polluting and associated with the uneducated; Mandarin is refined and part of the literary culture. Mr. Rabim Ishak, then Senior Minister of State (Foreign Affairs) noted the vulgarity associated with dialects in a speech where he noted that he learnt swear words in Cantonese, Hokkien, Teochew and Hainanese whereas in Mandarin, the swear words were less common and was a language for the refined people” (ST, 11 July 1980).
- Dialects are divisive, fragmentary and a major cause of miscommunication and misunderstanding; Mandarin is the language of unity, cohesion and a bridge between the different members of the Chinese Community. Goh Chok Tong, then Second Defence and Health Minister, pointed out at the opening ceremony of the SMC in his constituency that “The spoken and written form in Mandarin are in unison and do not create problems, unlike dialects where one word can have several meanings depending on the dialect it is spoken in” (ST, 9 June 1981).
- Dialects are a burden on the young, forcing them to learn two languages when they go to school; Mandarin facilitates academic success. Lee Kuan Yew argued that “dialect will hinder the learning of the child if he uses dialect … to speak dialect with your child is to ruin his future” (ST, 17 November 1980).
- Dialects have no value, neither culturally nor economically; Mandarin is linked to a 5000-year old history, rich in culture and bears immense economic potential with the opening up of China’s market. Lee Kwan Yew stressed that unlike Mandarin which “has cultural value and will also have economic value twenty years later,” dialects “have no economic value in Singapore. Their cultural value is also very low” (ST, 17 October 1980).
- Dialects represent the past and are primitive; Mandarin is the future. Lee Kwan Yew in a television forum argued, “Mandarin is a developing language; on the other hand, dialect is a stagnant language” (ST, 10 January 1980).
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Dialects are vulgar, polluting and associated with the uneducated
to speak dialect with your child is to ruin his future”
Dialects have no value, neither culturally nor economically;
dialects “have no economic value in Singapore. Their cultural value is also very low”
Dialects represent the past and are primitive