To the control gorup, whom they are working behind the scene In the past, most people who were born and raised in the place where their mothers and the people in the neighborhood speak the same language. Mother tongue and native speaker was relatively means the same. Today, most people who immigrate to another country. So, some people separated the different between mother tongue and native language. Mother tongue refer to his/her mother's original language, native speaker refer to the place where he/she was born and raised in the neighborhood of what language people speak . Japanese born in US, his/her mother tongue is Japanese, native language is English. However, this classification resulted in discrimination against RACE. Therefore, we call it bi-lingual. Where the child was born in US to Chinese and Japanese couple. He/She may speak English, Chinese and Japanese. We call it tri-lingual. In the situation like Singapore, some Singaporean may claim themselves bi-lingual or tri-lingual native speaker. This question is prefixed, it is in favor the people living in Hong Kong and Singapore, whom they want to get recognize, making English as their native language. Why not call it bi-lingual? if you want, you may claim English as your native language. I am not the one rejecting your claim. In fact, it does not fit into definition, that English is the native language in Hong Kong and Singapore.

A native english speaker is a person who grew up in an english speaking country,and of course,english is their official and native language.Even an ABC,we can call him native speaker if he was born in US or England.So there is no clear defination.

A "native speaker" really just means a person who's born into the language (from the Latin 'nativus/natus'); or a person who has been speaking the language since early childhood. Just being able to speak a language well, or very well even, does not make one a native speaker -- although many folks erroneously fancy themselves to be one, regardless.

Mr.HK Merchant , I noticed too and fully agreed. Let's be fair play, guys.

The same question was asked before. Mark Kramer's answer is relatively the same answer that Mr. Wozitoya answered previously. But it was voted to be incorrect in large. Here, Mr. wozitoya's answer was the copy of the previous answer by someone else other than Mr. Whozitoya. the same answer was the favorite in large. The question is a prefixed answer to be controlled by group of people behind the scene. You may noticed that every answers that answered by Mr. Wozitoya was voted negative in two second right after.