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The camp in this article is located in Changi, in Singapore. Singapore has always had a large Chinese population (it actually was originally in Malaysia upon th
by bobthepanda 3y ago
The camp in this article is located in Changi, in Singapore. Singapore has always had a large Chinese population (it actually was originally in Malaysia upon that country's independence but got kicked out for being too Chinese). It would be surprising if not a single one was familiar with some Chinese writing.
- CrazyCatDog 3y agoThey did, the translator communicates to the prisoners in English, and they pass along in Japanese to the guards. The article says they asked the translator.
- bobthepanda 3y agoThey didn’t know the word which is different from not having any knowledge of how Chinese characters are written. Chinese is not 1:1 with Japanese so that’s not surprising.