An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
Singapore is a multiracial nation where different languages and dialects are spoken. However, the working language is English.
That being the case, I was really taken aback when, during my recent stay at Tan Tock Seng Hospital, practically all the Chinese doctors and nurses spoke to me in Mandarin.
They looked at me, a Chinese patient in his 70s, and decided that I must understand Mandarin.
I had to raise my hand and tell them to stop, as I don't understand a word of Mandarin.
When I...
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