Dear Spotify,
I am NOT in China. Please for the love of God, STOP with your Mandarin advertisements.
Chinese Privilege is having even international companies cater to you and your language despite it being streamed in a multiracial country.
Isn’t one of the official languages of Singapore Chinese??? That’s like getting upset when you hear announcements in Flemish & French in Belgium? I’m sincerely asking, not trying to be a jackass
Tamil and Malay are also official languages. In face, Malay is the NATIONAL LANGUAGE. So why aren’t there Malay ads?
It’s so convenient that the ads just happen to be in Mandarin.
You might not be trying to be a jackass, but your dismissive question sure made you sound like one.
Maybe the Chinese market is bigger? Idk.
Romansch is an official language of Switzerland but hardly any of its media is in it because it has such a small market.
The fact that you insist on continuing to defend Chinese language supremacy in Singapore really says everything. You can’t even be bothered to try to understand why this is upsetting to minorities, or that your ridiculous excuses have been used to erase and deny us representation for decades. You have nothing new or original to say here, you are actually spouting rhetoric that racists do all the time.
When you sound similar to racists, maybe it’s time you stop and think about who you really are.
If Singapore isn’t in China yet, you see the signs all around saying “We’re working on it”.
This last GE really was about whether or not we wanted Singapore as a multicultural, democratic, independent state, or whether we were happy with our continuing acceleration into the suffocating embrace of the PRC.
Those of us of a certain age recall when the God-King LKY cried on television at a singularly opportune time. He may have lost his chance to be God-King of a unified Malaya, but for his dynasty, a to-be-unified China awaits.
Is this why you did your NS? I didn’t think so.