Indonesian Language
It just came to my attention that some people despise Indonesians who always talk in Bahasa Indonesia and refuse to speak English when we are with each other.
........ if you study/work in (hypothetically-speaking), for example, Korea!, where everyone speaks Korean and you need to speak the language too on a daily basis in school/workplace and you meet fellow Singaporeans with the same mother tongue as you over there, would you still speak Korean among each other or would you be tempted to use English... or Singlish? or Chinese? or whatever your mother tongue is?
Bahasa Indonesia is our mother tongue, our native language, a language we are most comfortable speaking in. We grew up speaking Indonesian, and that has become part of our identity and culture. We don't want to be pretentious and be someone we are not. We don't want to lose that just because.
Just like you defend your Singlish as being part of your culture, the same goes to our language. Maybe some of us do speak bad English, but that doesn't mean all of us don't speak proper English if need be. I can speak proper English. My friends can speak proper English. Look at yourselves and see in what way we differ from you guys.
