Author: Vyvyane Loh

Cites

• Lee Kuan Yew (1)
  • IN: Breaking the Tongue (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "A person who gets deculturalised—and I nearly was, so I know this danger—loses his self-confidence. He suffers from a sense of deprivation. For optimum performance a man must know himself and the world. He must know where he stands. I speak the English language better than the Chinese language because I learnt English early in life. But I will never be an Englishman in a thousand generations and I have not got the Western value system inside; mine is an Eastern value system. Nevertheless, I use Western concepts, Western words because I understand them. But I also have a different system in my mind."
    FROM: National Day Rally speech, (1978), Speech, Singapore