Furthermore, a worse scenario can be foreseen apart from hegemony of knowledge. English has long been privileged in many former colonies. It has already replaced the local community languages and destroyed the linguistic diversity in some multilingual colonized countries, such as India, which has approximately 3,000 mother tongues (Joseph & Ramani, 1998). This is because the English language gives power to its speakers. If those colonized people want their voice to be heard, they have to speak English. To be accepted into a place, they have to sound like the British. They gradually embrace English as a tool for survival and, later on, as a medium for communal and domestic communication must not wish on Singaporeans‖ (Davies, et al., 2003, p. 575). This clearly represents Singaporeans‘ attitudes toward their linguistic variety