I don't get it...

Why most Hakka ppl don't want to speak Hakka language?

Cantonese is more commonly use in malaysia because of the media. We have MY FM that use cantonese. My dad is hakka and my mom is hokkien. too bad i can only speak cantonese and mandarin because those 2 language are not widely use in KL. Even when i go to JB/SG, i can still use cantonese here as the people here do understand cantonese.

Interesting I heard more mandarin in SG 10 years ago amongst youngsters. Today I hear far more English there.
Agree on cantonese and KL part.

On johor bit, it's true that hokkien and teochew look down on own dialect and therefore choose to pass on only mandarin to children. Johor is malaysia's mandarin speaking capital. Melaka is the same.....sad
100% agree.  To summarise

Hokkien-> mandarin speaking
Hokkien -> cantonese speaking (in Klang valley)
Hakka -> Cantonese (in Klang valley and canto speaking areas)

Hokkien and Hakka people not proud of own language?

no offence, but i also experience some very rude hokkien people, so, i guess, cant say that all cantonese people lcly and i cant say that all hokkien very rude. so please respect

Your argument could apply to Hakka speaking cantonese case. What about the case of mandarin? We don;t have actually have a sizaeble stock of mandarin dialect group yet Johor is mandarin speaking. Mandarin is as alien as english when you think about it in a sense that they are official languages

There is the pride factor but it's probably more apparent in more affluent families. To chinese educated people, dialect = low class and mandarin = superior.

That's what I said.

Poor mom and pop speaks only the vernacular, works hard, send the kids to school. They come home showing the new language they learn and the parents praise them saying they're so smart.

You learn Mandarin in school. Using it shows that you're educated. I cannot read and write, and don't speak Mandarin. When people speak to me in Mandarin and I reply in Hokkien, they know I'm illiterate. If I reply in English instead. They think, "he knows English. Maybe he's not so dumb and uneducated."

It is happening with Malay as well. No matter where you come from, on important occasions like speeches, interviews on TV, etc, you try to use the standard BM we hear on TV. There's a guy on a talk show (TV9 IINM) that speaks with a very pronounced accent (Kedah/Penang I think). One day, my sister was at my home, we had the TV on, and when she saw that, she immediately say "so low class". This was just first impression. But it is what matters.