Alienation of the oldies

Many of our parents and grandparents were ostracized or sidelined when
dialect was banned from SBC, from radio or TV broadcast. Their world
just closed down on them and they would have to go around finding people
who could talk to them in dialects. The grandchildren would be distant
aliens as they too did not speak dialects but English and Mandarin. The
Malays, Indians and Eurasians faced