Guan Eng's Chinesegate shows we need to mature from language politics


– Reuters

Lim Guan Eng has been crucified for using Malay, English and the "unforgivable" language, Chinese, in one of his press releases as Finance Minister.

Compare that to when President Obama once did a campaign ad entirely in Spanish to support (Mexican and South American) immigrants known as DREAMers (https://tinyurl.com/ObamaSpanish). It was well received by Americans, apart from Umno, I mean, Trump voters.

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Andrew Sia

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