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They don’t care about how creolised our culture is. Long story, but today it has the connotation of: too Chinese to be Indonesian. Totok is a term used to call us by fully assimilated Indonesian Chinese. Ours is a Totok (sin-khek) families of no status”.
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Once when I was young and ignorant, I asked my uncle, “Why do we not know of any Babah Nyonya in Medan?”. Why are we not aware, you say? Because the like of yours would rarely rub shoulders with every other kopitiam newspaper-reading ah-pek-s. It is a subculture of peranakans, consisting of wealthy highly privileged elites who created a social wall that separated them from common folks. If you mean peranakan culture, yes most Singaporeans are aware of it, but as you mentioned afterwards, your Baba-Nonya culture is different.
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‘ My family has been part of the Baba/Nonya community for seven generations and our experience suggests that many young Singaporeans are only vaguely aware of this community.’ Therefore, let’s listen to this ‘Walter Woon’ and analyse if his claims carry weight: Imagine preschool for old-people… that is what it looks like to people like us, who grew up in this creolised culture a culture that is so rich, wide and diverse, which does not belong to anyone but yet belongs to everyone. The ones who get together wearing tacky kebaya-s in the most outrageously garish colours, singing malay children song and ma-masak (children’s pretend cooking). Yeah, those people who take so much pride in fumbling less than a handful of melayu baba phrases here and there. Our friend here posted an article about how ‘Baba-Nonya community is a distinctively Singaporean one’. Just to give everyone else a little bit of context. Yes, I will not and shall not call you with the title ‘Baba’ Walter Woon, because the arrogance and disrespect you show towards the people who inherit Straits Chinese culture, be they indigenous, local, peranakan or sin khek/totok, does not reflect the progressive society that we envision.