Why did Lee Kuan Yew take various measures to westernize?

There are two kinds of Chinese in Singapore and Southeast Asia. One is overseas Chinese. Most of them have not been in China for a long time, but they are still educated in China and are close to China and China. The other is a native of China who has lived for generations, and most of them can't speak Chinese. Their elites are basically educated by western colonial authorities. For example, Lee Kuan Yew has been speaking English since his grandfather Li Yunlong's generation. Besides, Lee Kuan Yew's mother is still a bitch. (From the Song and Yuan Dynasties to the Zheng He period, China people who immigrated to Southeast Asia intermarried with local Malays and gave birth to mixed-race, with the male named You and the female named Niangjiao. ) So, in terms of blood, family background and education, Li is relatively distant from China culture and China education.

In addition, Li is firmly opposed to * * *. Although he joined the trade union, Ma and other leftists studied in Britain after the anti-colonial and independent political movement. But after he came to power independently, he began to suppress the party. Due to historical reasons, Chinese schools in Malaya and Singapore are the base camps of * * * Party and left-wing activities. In particular, Chinese mainland exported the ideas of revolution and production to Southeast Asia, and their work focused on China people. At that time, Chinese schools in Singapore and Malaysia all used Chinese textbooks from the mainland, and all of them were infiltrated by Chinese and Malaysian. China students from Chinese schools and China trade unions became the main force of the Singapore-Malaysia Revolutionary Movement and the opposition to the Li government. In the process of repression and correction, Li simply closed Chinese schools on a large scale, and even closed Nanyang University in Singapore, which has a long history and far-reaching influence in Chinese education. This is his political motive to restrict and weaken education in China.

In addition, as an independent country, Singapore is an accidental product of the political struggle between Chinese and Malays in Singapore and Malaysia. Singapore is a small country with few people, living between Malaysia and Indonesia, and may be annexed at any time. Therefore, if Singapore wants to survive, it must rely on the protection of Britain and the United States, and at the same time try to downplay its China color, so as to reduce the suspicion of neighboring countries that Singapore is a small China and a Trojan horse of China because of fear of China. At the same time, although more than 75% of Singapore's population is Chinese, there are still Malays and Indians. Malaysia and India are close at hand and are eyeing each other. Therefore, Singapore cannot strengthen Chinese culture and make other ethnic groups feel oppressed. Therefore, Singapore emphasizes the national identity of all ethnic groups to Singapore, and weakens and avoids the scenes and identities of all ethnic groups to their ancestral homes. Since Singapore cannot take China as the center, Malays as the center and India as the center, westernization can make all ethnic groups equal and acceptable to them. Besides, Singapore was originally a British colony, and Britain's parliamentary democracy, judicial system and educational model have long been accepted by all parties. Therefore, it is smart, reasonable and even far-sighted for Singapore to promote English education and build a western-style society and country, which can make the country stable, United and long-term stability.