It's very impressive and humbling to hear LKY addressed himself 小弟 in Hokkien ... Wha Lao He Shibei Sut ... I think that speech would have drawn lots of vote from the ah Beng ah Seng ah Lian ah Hui of the time, his hokkien very the Dok Kong
If Singapore had not adopted English as the official language, where would the nation be today? Every dialect fighting for their space, Malay vs Chinese vs indians. Business links with the world will be weaker Sri Lanka was a crown colony, equally if not more promising back then. But a series of policy errors, corruption and internal strife did them in.
@@elderchief8576At least Bombay my hometown But our city is ruled by goons from the hinterland who use the Marathi language to show their strength and bully the citizens of Bombay
When LKY went to Taiwan, he visited the countryside together with Taiwan’s then President Chiang Jing Guo. When Chiang saw LKY speaking to the Taiwanese farmers in the Hokkien dialect, he was shocked and said, the Prime Minister of Singapore could communicate with my people in Hokkien, yet I had no idea what they were talking about.
Powerful, LKY sounded like ancient emperor in China speaking to his subjects using Middle Chinese language, which probably similar to hokkian or teo chew 😁
I was there , young n stupid, who never believed that history in the making....lunch time , watching n listening but not really understood the significance of the moment.....
but you are there during lunch time to watch and listen. A lot of CBD workers now will not go and watch when PAP has a rally. They will "have more important things to do"
Lee Kuan Yew only started learning Hokkien (and Mandarin even later) in midlife ages way later than English and Malay. For his age as a new external learner speaker, this was already quite good. His wife Kwa Geok Choo herself being a Hokkien helped him a lot! Hokkien is just so deep into Singaporeans' blood and heritage that even Lee Kuan Yew's reign power can never minimize this dialect's popularity to make way promoting Mandarin!
If Mr Lee has been born elsewhere or in different era. Singapore will be very much different. Just look around South east asia. Thinking of Lim Yew Hock reminds me of the corruption striven Singapore.
P S oh,come on! We know that the most of young Hokkien generation can’t speak Hokkien language fluently, that means Hokkien already became a dying language in Singapore. Maybe just exists in some bad wrods in the future.
@@BumbleBee-bc7vs, it’s interesting to see how SG politics had evolved to reflect the mood on the ground, the leaders are all quite different in their own ways
@@kokkintang9983means "your father", as in the person saying that is referring to himself as being "your father". I wouldn't exactly say it's rude, it's just coarse and uncouth since it's not necessarily used as an insult towards the other subject of the conversation.
Was he doing this to show Lim Chin Siong - the Ong Teng Cheong of the day who was very popular with the Hokkien langs - he too could speak Hokkien? Just curious.
no. he was a working man's champion. like he fought for the postmen in spore for their rights then. he said he had to help these hardworking group of people, ! later he became MP fr Tanjong Pagar. where lots of these chinese poor, hardworking families came from.
ha ha yes! othman wok said the malaysian ministers thought they could make him look small with his limited language skills or so they thought .. they slung down in their seats once he started speaking! nice of mr othman wok to share that ! :)
@@HirayaManawari-nx5px, The language of Hokkien people is useless? What a nonsense! It is the ancient language of China that exits to this day and is still spoken by 50 millions Hokkien people in China and elsewhere across the world.
Oh yeah, his opponents and subordinates who had fallen out with him have felt the effects of his "powder" 🤣😂 For better or for worse, Singapore is where it is today because of LKY's laser-like focus on advancing its interests. 👋👍
Later on he sucked up to Deng Xiaoping and banned Hokkien. Mandarin, a language invented by Turkic conquerors of China, became prominent instead. Han Chinese indigenous to Swatow also forced to speak it.
He banned during the Mao era, because for unity and also getting rid of communism. There is an Intel leak from Taiwan where he had a chat with Zhou Enlai explaining why he did that. As for why he opt for Mandarin, because he saw it coming that China with it's Mandarin will be a powerful economic force. This is better rather than seeing Singapore rot like Hong Kong because they are arrogant with their dialect. Anyway, Hokkien culture is also influenced by the Turkic conquerors of China via the Sui and Tang dynasty.
nobody now in singapore parliament can speak like this , only 1 guy come close , thats Chan Chun Sing with his " Ke Chiu " !! + " Sia Suay " , but unfortunately didnt do too well in advancing his own image .
@@LEEeechoy-er9omsingapore easier , more hokkiens ppl, malaysia although a lot of hokkiens , in fact hokkiens majority among chinese, but klang valley mostly dominated by cantonese... so singapore easier to shape a hokkien speaking society
All these commentaries praising Lee Kuan Yew are ridiculous. It’s a known fact he was a prominent member of the triads and Singapore today is a dead society
He was simply saying, My fellow sporeans, young and old, in the upcoming year 2020 elections, the time has come. The opposition party will become the new ruling party for Spore. No more 9%GST, no more Foreigners, jobs secured for all s'poreans, No more ERP, No more COE, full withdrawal of CPF for 55 years old! Abolish the 99years lease for HDB.. lets welcome freehold land HDB. Together, the new Opposition party will make spore great again! Believe! Merdeka! Huat ah!
and he deprived you young Singaporeans of this wonderful topolect called Hokkien via the linguicide called speak mandarin campaign. Don't think it is possible to express this in Mandarin. Such a loss.
"such a loss" dumbass! Nobody speaks Hokkien anymore except for old people and gangsters! Sure it's fine if you want to learn it, but Hokkien has no future, and even he acknowledges it! He was willing to accept that fact and let it go! He know what to sacrifice unlike you, and that is why Singapore prospered
Peter Q .... I m sure u r also a Chinese.... touch your heart ... r u feeling ashamed to speak mandarin ?.... we human r all kiasu people ,... nowadays the younger generations speaking a lot of English instead of mother tongue ... Angmo big stick is it ?...
You are talking present...I am talking at the time I live that era...this Bastarda a Coward & Traitor manage to CONvince the lowly or Mandarin-Dialect educated to follow him, yes to a future created by a Group of dedicated leaders, him being the Big Mouth do the talking but claiming all the credit...if there is anyone who thinks "angmoh" tua kee it is that Bastard lah!!!...all his Nationalist Bullshit and Patriotism is basically Self Interest...todays political scene is OBVIOUS he succeded in his self interest to create a Dynasty at the EXPENSE of Nationalist and Patriots and those he CONNED...the name suit him like a hand in GLOVE...Lie Con You!!!
For your INFORMATION he removed Dialects purely b'cos he is ASHAME of his Dialect and used the removal of Dialect to promote Mandarin as an EXCUSE of his COWARDICE & TRUTH typical of an ArseHole class ONE!!!
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In his memoirs, he wrote that the young children used to laugh at his poor command of hokkien...
The biggest irony: The young children are now the ones who have a poor command of Hokkien.
Young children nowadays speak pai kiah naughty Hokkien unlike in the past. Don't get it wrong.
this is truly rare footage & a significant moment in history. thank you for sharing this
Speaking Hokkien. So cool. A man of immense talent. Singapore so blessed.
He's dead.
@@alecfoster4413hockien also
The man who wiped out Hokkien in Singapore.
It's very impressive and humbling to hear LKY addressed himself 小弟 in Hokkien ... Wha Lao He Shibei Sut ... I think that speech would have drawn lots of vote from the ah Beng ah Seng ah Lian ah Hui of the time, his hokkien very the Dok Kong
Back when LKY was a young lad.
Young time 小弟，old time Limpeh!
SG blessed to have a leader like him
Truly a powderful man.
If Singapore had not adopted English as the official language, where would the nation be today?
Every dialect fighting for their space, Malay vs Chinese vs indians. Business links with the world will be weaker
Sri Lanka was a crown colony, equally if not more promising back then. But a series of policy errors, corruption and internal strife did them in.
Would still be first class nation unlike malaysial its neighbour though
India should do it imo
@@elderchief8576At least Bombay my hometown
But our city is ruled by goons from the hinterland who use the Marathi language to show their strength and bully the citizens of Bombay
English is one of the four official languages of Singapore(Malay, English, Mandarin and Tamil).
When LKY went to Taiwan, he visited the countryside together with Taiwan’s then President Chiang Jing Guo. When Chiang saw LKY speaking to the Taiwanese farmers in the Hokkien dialect, he was shocked and said, the Prime Minister of Singapore could communicate with my people in Hokkien, yet I had no idea what they were talking about.
he had to learn hokkien!
Powerful, LKY sounded like ancient emperor in China speaking to his subjects using Middle Chinese language, which probably similar to hokkian or teo chew 😁
Han Chinese are indigenous to Swatow. Mandarin was invented by Turkic conquerors.
@@andrewsitu3472 Big claims and entirely false. Source?
LKY is, was the direct descentant of a Tang emperor !
Born leader Singapore are blessed to have such man
I was there , young n stupid, who never believed that history in the making....lunch time , watching n listening but not really understood the significance of the moment.....
but you are there during lunch time to watch and listen. A lot of CBD workers now will not go and watch when PAP has a rally. They will "have more important things to do"
當年李光耀先生訪台
他能以流利閩南話和台灣民眾溝通
這使得時任總統蔣經國先生汗顏
漸漸地，經國先生決定開始學閩南話
嘗試去傾聽基層百姓的聲音
兩個和中共最反閩南語/文化政讙，在臺灣国亡黨推行消滅原住民，客家，閩南語。在新加坡黎狂妖父子幾乎把，客，潮，瓊，福建幾個語言，全都是漢族語滅掉
Lee Kuan Yew only started learning Hokkien (and Mandarin even later) in midlife ages way later than English and Malay. For his age as a new external learner speaker, this was already quite good. His wife Kwa Geok Choo herself being a Hokkien helped him a lot!
Hokkien is just so deep into Singaporeans' blood and heritage that even Lee Kuan Yew's reign power can never minimize this dialect's popularity to make way promoting Mandarin!
all the more to admire him
If Mr Lee has been born elsewhere or in different era. Singapore will be very much different. Just look around South east asia. Thinking of Lim Yew Hock reminds me of the corruption striven Singapore.
Thanks to him, Hokkien dialect disappeared in Singapore
P S okay, my wrong grammar ,it is disappearing. isn’t it?
P S oh,come on! We know that the most of young Hokkien generation can’t speak Hokkien language fluently, that means Hokkien already became a dying language in Singapore. Maybe just exists in some bad wrods in the future.
You can always forced your younger to learn.
He did right. What is wrong is young Chinese Singaporean's Mandarin are atrocious.
@@asiacuisine4869 Singaporean chinese cannot speak their own language😆. Its humiliating
Damn retro, iron man talking behind his comrades smoking .. those were the days when politicians had that rugged edge
Dr. Goh then, smoked pipe and played chess. 😁
.. it definitely feels like they were not the typical “Yes-man”
Yes..true true
@@tlcchuang742 yes..he speak and he do..the men of his words..no nonsense..for the better Singapore..
@@BumbleBee-bc7vs, it’s interesting to see how SG politics had evolved to reflect the mood on the ground, the leaders are all quite different in their own ways
LKY said he will not abolish Chinese schools.
He later on went to break his promise.
They encouraged students to look into communist policies
Hello, anglo chinese school still exists today.
Luckily he never use the word, 'Lim Peh" in his hokkien speech.
Is this a " bad" word?
@@kokkintang9983 it is a rude word.
@@kokkintang9983means "your father", as in the person saying that is referring to himself as being "your father".
I wouldn't exactly say it's rude, it's just coarse and uncouth since it's not necessarily used as an insult towards the other subject of the conversation.
He know multi languages leh. Powerful man
Was he doing this to show Lim Chin Siong - the Ong Teng Cheong of the day who was very popular with the Hokkien langs - he too could speak Hokkien? Just curious.
no. he was a working man's champion. like he fought for the postmen in spore for their rights then. he said he had to help these hardworking group of people, ! later he became MP fr Tanjong Pagar. where lots of these chinese poor, hardworking families came from.
tks for upload.
0:01 that rally was 3 days after his birthday, 16 Sept
LKY was the Roy Roger of his era when Sg was still the Wild Wild East..hi ho Silver!!
I jus realised the PAP politicians r smoking in the back LOL wtf
LKY's hokkien was really a legend
I like the guy seated with a cigar during rally
He speaks all kinds of languages. His Malay was so good that he scared the Malaysian MPs
ha ha yes! othman wok said the malaysian ministers thought they could make him look small with his limited language skills or so they thought .. they slung down in their seats once he started speaking! nice of mr othman wok to share that ! :)
Lee Kuan Yew so macho... my present PM so girly
@@ariaantoroatang7720 LKY spirit lives on in CSJ.
Really admired LKY👍👍👍👌 because he was born to Peranakan family as was told by Lee Shien Yang during his eulogy for his father passing
He drove Hokkien language to extinction from 1979 onwards.
Hokkien is useless anyway.
li kong siamik?
@@ericloo6576 so what?it's a useless language anyway.
@@HirayaManawari-nx5px It's literally not at all, it's a very useful Sinitic language.
@@HirayaManawari-nx5px, The language of Hokkien people is useless? What a nonsense! It is the ancient language of China that exits to this day and is still spoken by 50 millions Hokkien people in China and elsewhere across the world.
respect
This is how a politician lie on your vote
Bruce Lee of politic
大家一起學福建話，最多的語言就是福建話。
Legend
dio dio dio, sibeh powderful, jit jun eh Singapore hockkian lang bun bo yi a ne kiang gong hock kian wei liao.
Gong simi ? Powerful.
The guy smoking in the background... Anyone knows who the cool stud was?
Nin lao pei
@@jessicaregina1956 no la... Its lin lao bu luan luan kan have birth to lian zi lei sikina
last sentence should be oo peh kong 乌白讲
Peter Q, you must be a Opposition Party...😁😅😄
Lei Kuan Yew si beh ho liao.....chin chia hokkien lang....
e nm si khe lang meh?
@@_A_Ong 伊是客人 但是伊学讲福建话
Yi si hokkien keh lang tansi yi o kong hokkien wa
His team behind was smoking like nobody business... hahah
stress!
He should have said "Gong jiao wei"
The effort is what matters to get votes man.
真的消灭了
At 0:18, he says, 再多三日,“lim bei"去投票
you are going to vote in Hokkien do you understand..???
John Yap lmao it’s a Taiwanese joke, puns
beh
可以罵政府禁止方言節目。但記得看看自己，在家裡跟孩子用什麼語言溝通。英語？華語？福建話？廣東話？
父母都是受英文教育的，為了孩子的前途，家裡也只有英文報章，沒有華文的。
He speak n look like a gangster but a good gangster 😅😅😅...there's only one LKY...
political’s bruce lee
He looks abit like my gifted son....fierce look.Eye of the Tiger.My gifted son is equally good academically. Fyi
Oh yeah, his opponents and subordinates who had fallen out with him
have felt the effects of his "powder" 🤣😂
For better or for worse,
Singapore is where it is today because of
LKY's laser-like focus on advancing its interests. 👋👍
Very epic video
Politicians easily sway the voters...after getting into power he banned all dialects...a lesson to learn for all voters
beginning sounds like toilet
PAP is quiet on people using ONLY English as a test to be a Singaporean, instead of the 4 languages.
@@smling11 their supporters ridiculed Pritam Singh's IELTS proposal, claiming it would upset the demographic balance.
换成现代人说
lim pe baru mmsi ko diaw tennang wueh,
lim pe eh ginna ko tark tennang chek,
li ga limpe gong siamilan
Later on he sucked up to Deng Xiaoping and banned Hokkien. Mandarin, a language invented by Turkic conquerors of China, became prominent instead. Han Chinese indigenous to Swatow also forced to speak it.
He banned during the Mao era, because for unity and also getting rid of communism.
There is an Intel leak from Taiwan where he had a chat with Zhou Enlai explaining why he did that.
As for why he opt for Mandarin, because he saw it coming that China with it's Mandarin will be a powerful economic force. This is better rather than seeing Singapore rot like Hong Kong because they are arrogant with their dialect.
Anyway, Hokkien culture is also influenced by the Turkic conquerors of China via the Sui and Tang dynasty.
Seem like 1959 instead of 1963. He still talking about lim yew hock alliance party.
it was 1963 because Barisan Sosialis was only formed in 1961.
有一说一，我听不懂闽南语😅
nobody now in singapore parliament can speak like this , only 1 guy come close , thats Chan Chun Sing with his " Ke Chiu " !! + " Sia Suay " , but unfortunately didnt do too well in advancing his own image .
@@davidwong7283 CCS is cotton sheep. No iron in him unlike CSJ.
@@andrewsitu3472 better than black sheep
🇸🇬🇸🇬🇸🇬🇸🇬🇸🇬
Is that the British Union of Fascists logo behind them?
🥲🥲
when SG in MY
tak belajar sejarah ka?
He speaks like a common street thug addressing some meek shopkeepers.
Singapore debts
Ban LGBT
Ban red light district
他說華人說華語，沒說說福建話。哈哈哈～～～ 他說學校學華文。
現在的水準是普普通通啦，不過也比老一輩時候普遍。
不少老一輩是看了連續劇才會的。
“华人讲华语，合情又合理” 简直就是滑天下之大稽。
福建人讲北京话，合情又合理？
客家人讲北京话，合情又合理？
广府人讲北京话，合情又合理？
潮州人讲北京话，合情又合理？
北京话被强行成为了他们的“母语”，他们真正的母语却被李扼杀了
@@siopoh1311 大勢所趨難避免。華人自身很矛盾。或者說是人類一貫的心理反應。在意的是政府的強制性措施，而不是真的什麼母語不母語。
有些華人到了西洋國，過兩代就只會英語了。即使是台灣沒禁止方言，也有大量閩南語節目，但也越來越多人閩南語不流利。
就說新加坡，早前就有不少華人家裡只講英語，以及些許全家人不懂母語的。
問問現在的人，多少個在家裡和孩子說母語？政府又沒規定不能教孩子講方言。我看是因為講英語實際點。
@@workfasts 台灣禁止過台語的
@@aka-bo6ej 這我知道。是蔣家時代。但畢竟台灣地大人多，其他種族語言大體漢化，情形不比新加坡複雜，馬來語、華語、粵語、福建話、印度語。新加坡正式的語文規劃是獨立後開始，方言受限制，教育語文是 ABC，完全脫離漢字。
至於，台灣大體上是兩種語言，華語和閩南語，相對簡單，且所用文字，華語和閩南語大致相同，何況台灣開放後閩南語的電視節目、歌曲大量繁殖，民間閩南語也保留得很完整。
曾被禁止，可是下來的情況，是看自己的取向了。
華語是世界華人的溝通語，大勢所趨，許多家長還是會選擇面對現實，讓孩子重視華語。
現在不是普通等級，是堪憂。
should revive hokkien education
Realistically in Malaysia Hopefully
@@LEEeechoy-er9omsingapore easier , more hokkiens ppl, malaysia although a lot of hokkiens , in fact hokkiens majority among chinese, but klang valley mostly dominated by cantonese... so singapore easier to shape a hokkien speaking society
powerful, not powderful
All these commentaries praising Lee Kuan Yew are ridiculous. It’s a known fact he was a prominent member of the triads and Singapore today is a dead society
He was simply saying, My fellow sporeans, young and old, in the upcoming year 2020 elections, the time has come. The opposition party will become the new ruling party for Spore. No more 9%GST, no more Foreigners, jobs secured for all s'poreans, No more ERP, No more COE, full withdrawal of CPF for 55 years old! Abolish the 99years lease for HDB.. lets welcome freehold land HDB. Together, the new Opposition party will make spore great again! Believe! Merdeka! Huat ah!
and he deprived you young Singaporeans of this wonderful topolect called Hokkien via the linguicide called speak mandarin campaign. Don't think it is possible to express this in Mandarin. Such a loss.
"such a loss" dumbass! Nobody speaks Hokkien anymore except for old people and gangsters! Sure it's fine if you want to learn it, but Hokkien has no future, and even he acknowledges it! He was willing to accept that fact and let it go! He know what to sacrifice unlike you, and that is why Singapore prospered
Teach hokkien over mandarin
潮州话
A Hakka ashame of his dialect passing off as a HOKKIEN!!!
Peter Q ...u don't talk rubbish lah... this is a rally talk in public...speak hakka to the majority hokkien ?
Peter Q .... I m sure u r also a Chinese.... touch your heart ... r u feeling ashamed to speak mandarin ?.... we human r all kiasu people ,... nowadays the younger generations speaking a lot of English instead of mother tongue ... Angmo big stick is it ?...
Peter Q We Chinese ashamed of our mother tongue ... hence a lot passing of as an Angmo.... but a lot speaking broken English...LOL
You are talking present...I am talking at the time I live that era...this Bastarda a Coward & Traitor manage to CONvince the lowly or Mandarin-Dialect educated to follow him, yes to a future created by a Group of dedicated leaders, him being the Big Mouth do the talking but claiming all the credit...if there is anyone who thinks "angmoh" tua kee it is that Bastard lah!!!...all his Nationalist Bullshit and Patriotism is basically Self Interest...todays political scene is OBVIOUS he succeded in his self interest to create a Dynasty at the EXPENSE of Nationalist and Patriots and those he CONNED...the name suit him like a hand in GLOVE...Lie Con You!!!
For your INFORMATION he removed Dialects purely b'cos he is ASHAME of his Dialect and used the removal of Dialect to promote Mandarin as an EXCUSE of his COWARDICE & TRUTH typical of an ArseHole class ONE!!!
WELL, MALAY SINGAPOREAN HAVE FIRST PRESIDENT OF SINGAPORE YUSOF ISHAK AND 8TH PRESIDENT OF SINGAPORE HALIMAH YACOB. 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
And then?
Decoy.
@@azrulsuparman4024 , and then I eat Roti Canai. 😀
Semoga melayu singapura terus sukses......Salam dari malaysia
哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈笑死我
POWDERFUL , AS USUAL ALWAYS FUCKING NONSENSE BROKEN ENGLISH TITLES
口不对心
最虛偽的就是那些華膠份子
WELL, MALAY SINGAPOREAN HAVE FIRST PRESIDENT OF SINGAPORE YUSOF ISHAK AND 8TH PRESIDENT OF SINGAPORE HALIMAH YACOB. 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊