Never understood the point of beauty pageants. but what I’m an advocate of is our Teochew culture. The thing is, for survival (& other political-socio reasons) the late LKY probably made the right choice in downplaying the importance of dialects so we could master English and Mandarin. But we are no longer that budding and struggling nation. We’ve achieved a certain level of wealth and development but I’ve also felt as a people, our sense of culture and identity is not the best, without an understanding of who we are and where we come from, we lack a depth of character. We need to start this journey of rekindling with our past, understand the various dialects spoken by our ancestors and remember who we are. My Teochew is sadly very basic and I struggle to string a proper conversation together in Teochew! Kudos to this initiative 👍 and respect to the young lady Jamie who can speak fluent Teochew!
not to flex but my maternal and paternal grandparents are teochew and hokkien respectively, so I can fluently speak teochew and hokkien, as well as english, mandarin, and japanese. And I'm barely 13.
Dont put it all on the government lol. Nothing stopped your family (or yourself) from learning your mother tongue on your own. LKY promised money, so you guys sold out your own heritage, and now you wanna talk about "rekindkling" with your history? Forget it. It doesn't work that way, once the continuity is severed it's no longer *your* past any more, you can learn teochew but you'll be learning it just like a non-Teochew person learning a foreign language, you wont be learning it as a mother tongue
@Ops Blac I never said we did. I'm saying that while we may not have "mastered" it, at least we're the best in Asia, which is pretty impressive since it has only been our lingua franca for like 5 decades (before that it was Malay).
So nice, but use up my crying time for today already! Jamie will be a success in anything she try, with her power and now more self confidence. She is a lovely person. 🥰
wow..almost 5 months of commitment, just on that alone it isn't easy, more so to balance the mental state, stage presentation, poise and to remember all those dance steps... good effort to Jamie and good coverage on cultural events..
Excellence to all the girls, as they can all present themselves in Chaozhou Hua. I have a daughter who is now studying overseas in her third year in PhD. She cannot speak Chaozhou Hua, as I am more myself to blame, I cannot master the dialect better than any of the girls here. Thumbs up.
Should have done the interview mostly in Teochew. Why mostly in English. Since Jamie is fluent in it should have let her speak in Teochew on most of the segments. Whats the purpose of this video if its not in Teochew. To me its just Miss Chinatown or something. To keep the authenticity all the contestants must be fluent in Teochew. Come on Mothership you can do better.
There is vibrant diversity in the Chinese community as well, I still remember some mates being from the enterprising teochew community. You often associate entrepreneurship with teochews. Hokkien folks tend to have some culinary trends, Cantonese in the fine arts... Pity mandarin has utterly destroyed this diverse linguistic landscape. Hokkien is the great grandfather of the Chinese languages - while Mandarin, ironically is the language in the courts - one that was usurped during the cultural revolutions... and that divisive trait was adopted as a pan-Chinese identity trait. I am quite perplexed that dialects are dying out in Singapore - goodness.
Its happening across the broad spectrum of all cultures and skin colours. Just as English and "westernization" through global social media are diluting the differences and uniqueness across entire borders and even continents. I've seen local youngsters disparaging "boomers" in their talk about older singaporeans when it really has no relevance to our social context whatsoever. Social attitudes and mentality are converging and in many ways, unnecessarily. Things are being sacrificed for unclear benefits, much less dialects.
Chinese speak very diverse and unintelligible languages - you do need a common tongue (PRC) or national langugage (ROC) or Chinese language (Singapore)
@@yongjiean9980 Yeah, we all speak English, doesn't mean we lose touch with our dialogues, right? There is something much sinister behind the process of assimilation. This is either deliberate or by-chance, losing your dialect for national identity is being pretty short sighted. We can be both, good nationals as well as good with our mother tongues! it's not mutually exclusive!
@@illuminatusdeus3051 The government never ask you to lost your dialect or languages. We need a common working national language to communicate. This is for sure. Rather it is up to you to preserve and speak your own dialect! Not the government. I often tell people the government cannot teach every languages in school. Though it is inevitable that local dialects do get marginalised or less important as the use of a working language becomes more prominent - a trend in China, Taiwan too not just Singapore.
Would advise her to discard the use of the word "like" in her speech. Just too many times, and totally redundant to the point of being irritating. Just my sincere advice.
What Teochew culture? Everyone there and in the video is speaking anything but Teochew, except when the contestants started to impress the " judges" by rehearsing Teochew lines" and struggling with inaccurate intonation of Teochew words. The pretense is a cringingly unpalatable.
Perhaps I have been wrong all along. People say teochew woman fair, big eyes and beautiful. Hmmmm the girls here.....different from my teochew colleagues.
Sorri to throw cold water. Non of em has the typical Teochew Ah Moi looks that i grew up with, admiring for their unique Teochew beauty - white porcelain skin, long black natural brows and big alluring eyes.
Jamie is so sweet and genuine!! She did so well. Her grandma would be so proud ❤️
Thank you so much for sharing and keeping our Teochew culture strong in Singapore home . Proud to be a Teochew .
Kudos to Mothership for making this video into an amazing story
Well done Jamie, your grandma would be very proud of you. Inspiring story by Mothership!
Never understood the point of beauty pageants. but what I’m an advocate of is our Teochew culture.
The thing is, for survival (& other political-socio reasons) the late LKY probably made the right choice in downplaying the importance of dialects so we could master English and Mandarin.
But we are no longer that budding and struggling nation. We’ve achieved a certain level of wealth and development but I’ve also felt as a people, our sense of culture and identity is not the best, without an understanding of who we are and where we come from, we lack a depth of character.
We need to start this journey of rekindling with our past, understand the various dialects spoken by our ancestors and remember who we are. My Teochew is sadly very basic and I struggle to string a proper conversation together in Teochew!
Kudos to this initiative 👍 and respect to the young lady Jamie who can speak fluent Teochew!
not to flex but my maternal and paternal grandparents are teochew and hokkien respectively, so I can fluently speak teochew and hokkien, as well as english, mandarin, and japanese. And I'm barely 13.
Dont put it all on the government lol. Nothing stopped your family (or yourself) from learning your mother tongue on your own. LKY promised money, so you guys sold out your own heritage, and now you wanna talk about "rekindkling" with your history? Forget it.
It doesn't work that way, once the continuity is severed it's no longer *your* past any more, you can learn teochew but you'll be learning it just like a non-Teochew person learning a foreign language, you wont be learning it as a mother tongue
@Ops Blac In Asia we easily have the best command of English (on average).
@Ops Blac I never said we did. I'm saying that while we may not have "mastered" it, at least we're the best in Asia, which is pretty impressive since it has only been our lingua franca for like 5 decades (before that it was Malay).
One good way would be focusing on making young people more focused on folklore and traditions .
Amazing personality
So nice, but use up my crying time for today already! Jamie will be a success in anything she try, with her power and now more self confidence. She is a lovely person. 🥰
She’s like so wholesome, great person to feature
wow..almost 5 months of commitment, just on that alone it isn't easy, more so to balance the mental state, stage presentation, poise and to remember all those dance steps... good effort to Jamie and good coverage on cultural events..
Jamie Toh beautiful 8n lo9ks & spirit. Sincerely hope Jamie wins!!!
Yeah really hope she wins this year man!
The only pageant I would approve! Very cool and novel idea!
I'm sure your Grandma is smiling from heaven because she is very proud of you. And you look beautiful too
I love everything Teochew . .!!
Proud to be Teochew from Thailand
I miss my grandparents :(
Awesome job Jamie! You and your mom look great at the end
Cám ơn Cô.
Interesting documentary, especially of heritage.
it's all about the journey.
mothership did well to capture the journey and bring us to feel the glimpse of the journey
Excellence to all the girls, as they can all present themselves in Chaozhou Hua. I have a daughter who is now studying overseas in her third year in PhD. She cannot speak Chaozhou Hua, as I am more myself to blame, I cannot master the dialect better than any of the girls here. Thumbs up.
Confidence glow in all of you.. be proud of yourself and your dialect.
A beauty pageant can be a wholesome experience. And what a novel idea!!
We need to do something about this before hokkien/teochew is gone forever in Singapore.
Wah very heartwarming vid! Good work Mothership! Keep it up
I like Jamie from the way she talked and smiled.
❤her sweet smile.
Often heard that Teochew ladies were the prettiest among the dialect groups.
she's so cute omgggggggg
Very touching story
Bravo
Great reporting.
This video is more about a beauty pageant & very little about the Tteoohew cuture, language, , food or values pertaining to Teohew people
Should have done the interview mostly in Teochew. Why mostly in English. Since Jamie is fluent in it should have let her speak in Teochew on most of the segments. Whats the purpose of this video if its not in Teochew. To me its just Miss Chinatown or something. To keep the authenticity all the contestants must be fluent in Teochew. Come on Mothership you can do better.
I think she got natural beauty
teochew nang, ka ki nang!
Greeting from teochew family borneo. West kalimantan. Lots of love. Btw we speak teo chew language to preserve our anchetor legacy.
Ah Ma would say "ler jing ngia".
Is it not sad though that this was all in Mandarin not even in Teochew...
Teochew nang ka chng ang ang
Have you ever been to your hometown in Teochew?
There is vibrant diversity in the Chinese community as well, I still remember some mates being from the enterprising teochew community. You often associate entrepreneurship with teochews. Hokkien folks tend to have some culinary trends, Cantonese in the fine arts...
Pity mandarin has utterly destroyed this diverse linguistic landscape. Hokkien is the great grandfather of the Chinese languages - while Mandarin, ironically is the language in the courts - one that was usurped during the cultural revolutions... and that divisive trait was adopted as a pan-Chinese identity trait.
I am quite perplexed that dialects are dying out in Singapore - goodness.
Its happening across the broad spectrum of all cultures and skin colours.
Just as English and "westernization" through global social media are diluting the differences and uniqueness across entire borders and even continents.
I've seen local youngsters disparaging "boomers" in their talk about older singaporeans when it really has no relevance to our social context whatsoever.
Social attitudes and mentality are converging and in many ways, unnecessarily. Things are being sacrificed for unclear benefits, much less dialects.
@@noblestar7742 agreed, somewhere we need to keep hold of some legacy traits.
Chinese speak very diverse and unintelligible languages - you do need a common tongue (PRC) or national langugage (ROC) or Chinese language (Singapore)
@@yongjiean9980 Yeah, we all speak English, doesn't mean we lose touch with our dialogues, right? There is something much sinister behind the process of assimilation. This is either deliberate or by-chance, losing your dialect for national identity is being pretty short sighted. We can be both, good nationals as well as good with our mother tongues! it's not mutually exclusive!
@@illuminatusdeus3051 The government never ask you to lost your dialect or languages. We need a common working national language to communicate. This is for sure. Rather it is up to you to preserve and speak your own dialect! Not the government. I often tell people the government cannot teach every languages in school. Though it is inevitable that local dialects do get marginalised or less important as the use of a working language becomes more prominent - a trend in China, Taiwan too not just Singapore.
The winner teochew language is white.
Teo Ser Luck's sister Teo Ser Lee 2:36
👍👍👍
My ah ma always call me yao siu kia
@joel toh thanks for the hookup ur daughter is great 🤤🤤🤩🤩
Teochew cold crab… yummy
Ning bo ta teo jiu oui. Ta mi kai hua yu. Wa nang si teo jiu nang, hmm si ah tiong nou kia.
Teochew ah Nia is the best
I must be living under a rock. I didnt know there is such a thing in singapore lol.
Its teochew peageant. But they hardly speak teochew during, even on practice
Since you're a Tiociu beauty contestant, why not speak in your dialect as well.
Would advise her to discard the use of the word "like" in her speech. Just too many times, and totally redundant to the point of being irritating. Just my sincere advice.
潮州人，家己人！
Not a fan of clan organizations tbh. It promotes tribalism, and Singapore needs to be united as one people.
What Teochew culture?
Everyone there and in the video is speaking anything but Teochew, except when the contestants started to impress the " judges" by rehearsing Teochew lines" and struggling with inaccurate intonation of Teochew words. The pretense is a cringingly unpalatable.
Jai Hinduja. Be careful when looking at a beauty for a few minutes. You can be easily labelled as Chee Ko Pek.
What Teochew culture???
I hear only Singlish, and Singdarin.
What’s the point. They are no longer speaking teochew.
What a shame.
潮州人，自己人。
Teochew pageant but they not even speaking teochew. This just meaningless vanity project...
Perhaps I have been wrong all along. People say teochew woman fair, big eyes and beautiful. Hmmmm the girls here.....different from my teochew colleagues.
Hong Kong pageants more good looking than them
Jai Hinduja. Useful idiot insides are not good looking.
@@DupDo facts
Sorri to throw cold water.
Non of em has the typical Teochew Ah Moi looks that i grew up with, admiring for their unique Teochew beauty - white porcelain skin, long black natural brows and big alluring eyes.
damn it’s almost like women are actual human beings and don’t look like your childhood fantasies 😳
@@GG-yv4bg what talking you? I doubt you are even a Chinese.
@ Deep One Ever heard of evolution? Time for you to move with the times.
@ G G Reckon his partner must have bound feet because it was once considered as a mark of feminine beauty in China.
@@DupDo typical hopeless sinkie attitude.
Voluptuous and irresistible shape.
Miss Fishball Noodle lmao
can someone link me her ig for research purpose
BORING!!!
For the sake of Money people come up with unnecessary things. Too much money make people selfish n stupid