what has ethnicity got to do with language?---a rhetorical question posed by suchen christine lim


Nothing! she answered.

the lecture theatre erupted in approving appluase.

why is this so?

what is my answer to her question?

this topis is deserving of me doing my university thesis on.

i have strong feelings and mixed and confused ideas about this issue of language and sense of identity as a person, as a member of the national/ethnis/social community. but they shall remian unarticulated until i develop my ability and stamina to do it.for now it shall remain as something i hold a monologue with my mum about.