British Man Breaks the Myths About Singapore

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A positive thinking person. Beginning of the YT already sent a strong message to others whoever want migrate to Singapore. " Change yourself to suit the world and not change the world to suit you. " " The world doesn't revolve around you."

Singaporean Chinese, Singaporean Malay, Singaporean Indian, Singaporean Eurasian....all of us are united by the fact that we are Singaporeans first ❤❤❤😊

This was an informative guest - he seems quite tuned in to Singapore's culture. It's people like him who actually spend a lot of time with locals who can demystify the local culture for expats. A good change from the rich banker types that you typically put out in your channel😀 Please find more people like Daniel in your guest line-up

British people can be too polite. But we appreciate it. We used to have the Courtesy campaign. It worked then. But 20 yrs later its all gone down the drain.

I like that English man.... so true with Singapore and his view and advise are simply awesome! Singapore welcome him ❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉 Thanks Mark for another great clip too !😊😊😊😊

Best explanation of why singlish is so grammatically different from english. Most people who criticise it (locals included) don’t even realised a lot of words are directly translated from mandarin, chinese dialects & malay.

I watched quite a few of Daniel's videos and even though me being Singaporean, I found his explanations on the way we speak English super-interesting. I didn't know that he taught in our public schools before. Nice!

11:30 that singlish thingy, its not only chinese, some malay words also quite the same when translated

I have never heard Singish being explained. Nice! Thats a great question. 🙂👍

Of course lah. The British will talk to strangers in a relaxed mode. Here, we have no time

Thanks Max for a fun interview.

We say Singaporean Chinese, Singaporean Malay etc. Nation 1st then race. LKY idea was we acknowledge we are all different and learnt to accept one another. Not trying to make different people the same which doesn't work.

I came to Singapore in the late 90's from Europe and am today a citizen, proudly. As for the culture shock I would disagree with the interviewed person as I found it very easy to get comfortable with the local, born in Singapore, people quite quickly. Yes, it took some time to get the hand of Singlish, but "growing up" in Singapore with Phua Chu Kang and the locals in the kopishop it was soon settled. I disagree to the statement that the interviewed person mention to try to educate proper English. Singlish is a part of Singapore identity and should remain so. And anyway, most Singaporeans can use proper English if needed to be honest and if dealing with foreigners say in a business setting. As for school and pressure. Disagree once again. School is preparing our youth for the future and in todays competitive setting in the job market, you need to be prepared and ready to put in extra effort to succeed, and prove your worth before you can relax. Abrupt language or what would be seen as rude questions in the West... Don't know, when I go to the kopishop I go there to make a transaction and not to have a conversation. The later part can be annoying at times especially taking a taxi and Uncle is kepo asking 101 questions about where I am from, married to Chinese, Malay or Caucasian, must make half a million of dollars a month because I am Caucasian and so on. But I do understand some may be curious. Nah, I wish and hope Singapore remains what it is today and never ever go down the Western liberal route. No changes needed. Edit: The interviewed man is clearly down to earth, assimilated to the Singaporean way of living and the kind of foreigner who contributes and not bashing this fine country. I have come across the opposite quite too many times too, sadly.

I have lived in Singapore since late ‘80s. At first I was upset by the abruptness. When I first worked in an admin job, I was shocked at how the other party just abruptly cut off the telephone conversation. “Ok. Bye”. Not much listening. Well, I have learned. I have become abrupt too, of course in a polite way. Time is precious especially when you got lots of work to do.

Agreed with the intro remarks. 👌

My nephew was born in uk. When he was 16 he and his sister and mother moved back to spore. He has a bit of london accent. But he says he can switch ‘from that to singlish’ easily. Ha ha. Hes also been educated here and went to a local school and enlisted fr NS! I am very proud of him. Everyone in NS called him ang mo! Have to be tough living here! We his family also had some adjusting too. Esp their thick london accent and pronounciations. V funny

Native Singaporeans by and large are very hospitable, sincere, honest, generous and trusting. Over the years of massive country development and the mass influx of foreign labor, the country has turned into a pressure cooker of sorts with many new PRs and naturalized citizens still with own distinct cultural instincts intact. Nevertheless, what's Singapore lacks that other naturally blessed countries have, Singapore more than makes up with probably the most unique assets of generic security, infrastructure excellence, high standard of living, disciplined intelligent citizenry and environments.. Etc. No country is perfect, close but there's no excuse if getting there means making it the most expensive city in the world to live there. No excuse - period! You don't get to heaven if you break the bank, sadly applies. 😱🙏😇💐

Ang Moh is actually a hokkien word which means Red Hair. Its probably to describe the caucasian with hairy chest, limbs & face. Its just how hokkien language works.

Singlish is a merger of English with Mandarin cultural preferences and with Malay, Tamil words added into the mix. By cultural preferences, I don't just mean the use of Mandarin grammar, but also the Chinese preference to shorten and simplify sentences by tossing out unnecessary words and/or replacing complex phrases with simpler words. That's how "Oh my goodness! Why are you behaving in such a manner?" can turn into "Alamak! Why you so like that?"