The Chinese Palette loh
The Chinese Palette loh is a web database that, as the name
suggests, paints the real and unseen diversity of Singaporean
Chinese identities. It is not an unknown fact that Singaporean
Chinese are often criticised for their lack of Chineseness,
mainly due to their poor Mandarin proficiency. Some of whom have
abandoned so much of their mother tongue, a Singlish term — “Ang
Moh Pai” was coined to label these westernised individuals. It
is as if the identity solely falls upon whether or not you can
speak Mandarin which is a superficial judgement considering that
there are so many facets to a culture. The data collected in
this project has shown that we perpetuate the ideal Chinese
identity as being well assimilated with the culture. But does
cultural knowledge equate to cultural attachment?