Fail tribute to 'Lee Kwan Yew': Try getting the name right first

Obviously trying too hard.

Belmont Lay| March 30, 04:41 AM

It has been one week since Singapore's founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew passed away in the early hours of March 23, 2015.

Plenty of respects have been paid, eulogies have been recited and last rites conducted.

But is there such a thing as writing a tribute -- that is obviously trying too hard -- to a man who was famously allergic to nonsense?

Ironically, yes, there is. Here's one.

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Titled "Lee Kwan Yew, Singapore and the Power of Filial Piety" and published on a Huffington Post-affiliated website, this supposed tribute piece committed the worst sin of all: Spelling Lee Kuan Yew's name wrongly.

Best of all, this is one amazing tribute that even I, as a Singaporean, don't even know what the writer is on about.

Here is a paragraph that will leave you scratching your chin:

Despite prominent Indian and Malay minorities, Singapore is predominantly Chinese. It is a profoundly Confucian society. The individual does not exist independent of his responsibilities to other elements of society. Even in 2015, the elemental productive unit of society remains the clan. Relationships are organized according to the wu lun -- five fundamental relationships that constitute a naturally ordered society: between father and son, husband and wife, older brother and younger brother, friend and friend, and ruler and ruled.

Whut? I beg your pardon?

 

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