This is a genuinely terrible article with an overblown and under-researched thesis - just a lot of uneducated pontificating. One way you can tell, for example,

This is a genuinely terrible article with an overblown and under-researched thesis - just a lot of uneducated pontificating. One way you can tell, for example, is his treatment of the Singlish phenomena in the same context as mainland Chinese English when, at even the most casual glance, they are completely different things. (Singlish is a primary day-to-day language for a large number of people - mainland Chinese-English is not. Singlish is often spoken by native/fluent English speakers who have been educated in English from primary school to university; the situation in mainland China is the opposite.)