Choose two stories that reveal the thinking of an older generation of Singaporeans. What new insights have you gained from such a revelation.

A DREAM OF CHINA
In the story a dream of china, in the father's perspectives, the life in Singapore is pretty mundane. He tried to live as he felt a true Chinese would. the father could see only one thing wrong with Singapore, but that one thing summed up everything else. Singapore was not China. To him, the younger generations in singapore could only read and write beautifully in chinese but were weird when it comes to conversation. The older generations aren't proud with the younger generations in singapore and are ashamed of it.
LEE
In the story lee, in the father's perspectives, he uphold the culture of singaporeans highly. He finds it something to be proud of. To him if you're a chinese for example, its an honour for you to acknowledge and appreciate it. He doesn't like it when the younger generations nowadays are too ignorant about their culture. He has a thought that the younger generations nowadays, usually takes things for granted and doesn't show the interest in their own culture. They reacted as if they are forced to learn about it but in actual fact, its something which they have to be proud of.