JULY 21 — So a primary school teacher was introducing herself to a new Primary 3 class.
The teacher was ethnically Indian, the boy ethnically Chinese. She replied her favourite food was not curry butThe teacher then replied that this sort of ignorance of other people and cultures was dangerous. She added; “Saying these kind of things can get you killed. It’s because of people like you riots and fights break out. Because you don’t seem to respect other cultures.”
Fundamentally she was offended by the child’s insistence on reducing her to her race and felt this was an instance of Chinese privilege. But on the other hand, Twitter is a public forum and the boy is nine. In one of her tweets, the teacher referred to the student as “an uncultured swine” and said “I wanted to strangle that kid.”
And, well, if you’re a teacher and this tiny quip makes you feel like strangling then you really may want to think about your chosen profession. I am not a teacher and I know that kids can do and say far worse than this boy. I’ve encountered plenty of Chinese Singaporeans who have no idea the language they see on countless signboards and notices every day is called Tamil. Is it Indian? Is it Hindi — they can’t name one of our national languages.
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