Few reason.

1. Probably uneducated and any gov related stuff ask kids to do cant even do alphabet. I heard my dad say his grand parent or even parent last time went JPN cant even spell the name to register for his kids and all different surname... or come out name with Ah Moi or something...

2. Thanks to communism and chinese new village initiative a lot of Chinese is segregated into their own community and have no need to interact with other races. If need any gov related thing they just ask their kids to deal with it

3. Unlikely due to SJKC, SJKC people worse case can speak broken BM.

4. Bangla different case mostly young able person trying to make a living. Bangla in chinese food court can speak better hokkien or cantonese than me... depends on the env they can master diff language damn good

5. Again there's no urgent need for them to do BM unlike when we go oversea and force to learn local language. They can depends on their kids and friends and a lot of time they hardly deal with gov stuff also.

6. Poverty many dropout of school when we just only had merdeka... that time not everyone can afford to have their kids to go to school. Need their kids to help working etc. Dad say last time many of his cousin only study till primary or maybe form 3. need to stop study and help out plus that time many chinese have a lot of kids unlike now thus even harder.

TBH I think this is an abandoned generation which we call them grandpa and grandma or old auntie uncle. Educated malaysian at least can speak broken BM.

BTW SJKC teach BM I dont get it why people assume SJKC dont teach BM so funny

This post has been edited by joevo2: Jan 15 2020, 02:41 PM