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In Singapore, Chinese Dialects Revive After Decades of Restrictions - New York Times


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In Singapore, Chinese Dialects Revive After Decades of Restrictions
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“Now, after decades of pruning and cutting, it's a garden focused on cash crops: learn English or Mandarin to get ahead and the rest is useless, so we cut it down.” This linguistic repression, and the consequences for multigenerational families, has ...

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