Ini posting untuk kengkawan yang bertanya saya tentang latar belakang Lee Kuan Yew.
Kita tahu LKY ini petah berbahasa Melayu selain dari Mandarin, Inggeris, beliau juga boleh berbicara Hakka, bahasa vernacular.
Beliau ada berdarah Melayu.
"We Straits-born Chinese are known as the Peranakan – the ladies are called nonyas while the men are called babas. We are the descendants of the early Chinese in the Straits Settlements of Penang, Malacca and Singapore… Malay influence, because of mingling and intermarriage, has produced a unique Peranakan culture and set of customs distinct from those of the Chinese community who came from China.”
Disini Temasek Review
Kita tahu LKY ini petah berbahasa Melayu selain dari Mandarin, Inggeris, beliau juga boleh berbicara Hakka, bahasa vernacular.
Beliau ada berdarah Melayu.
His Peranakan roots
His mother’s family was Baba/Nonya (Peranakan aka mixed Malay/Chinese
ancestry)… his father was of Hakka ancestry, his great grandfather having come
from China. He never mentioned his mother’s family origins to my knowledge.
"We Straits-born Chinese are known as the Peranakan – the ladies are called nonyas while the men are called babas. We are the descendants of the early Chinese in the Straits Settlements of Penang, Malacca and Singapore… Malay influence, because of mingling and intermarriage, has produced a unique Peranakan culture and set of customs distinct from those of the Chinese community who came from China.”
Learning to be Chinese
For Lee, Chineseness was something of an acquired skill and later a political
necessity. He was not brought up as a Chinese with a focus on China, but as a
baba who looked to England. His language, food and culture were not that of a
Chinese. And he followed the conventional career path of a baba. Not for him
shopkeeping or trading. He went to London to study law. And so Lee Kuan Yew of
Singapore became Harry Lee of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. His father had
given him and two of his brothers English as well as Chinese names
Disini Temasek Review
kalau hokkien saya rasa itu betul cina yang lama dah menetap di Melaka, Pulau Pinang dan Singapura...Hakka ni kalau tak silap tekemudian sikit...tu sebab bahasa Hokkien banyak digunakan di tiga tempat ni....Hakka ni kalau tak silap banyak di Perak...mungkin dia dilahirkan di sini semasa bapak atau datuk dia datang awal...
ReplyDeleteSaya ada kawan Hakka di Melaka.
ReplyDeletebai, Cina Peranakan tu cina yang amalkan budaya Melayu. Bukan keturunan Melayu!
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