  In spite of its many successes, the Standard Model makes many empirical
assumptions in the Higgs and fermion sectors for which a deeper theoretical
basis is sought. Starting from the usual gauge symmetry $u(1) \times su(2)
\times su(3)$ plus the 3 assumptions: (A) scalar fields as vielbeins in
internal symmetry space \cite{framevec}, (B) the ``confinement picture'' of
symmetry breaking \cite{tHooft,Banovici}, (C) generations as ``dual'' to colour
\cite{genmixdsm}, we are led to a scheme which offers: (I) a geometrical
significance to scalar fields, (II) a theoretical criterion on what scalar
fields are to be introduced, (III) a partial explanation of why $su(2)$ appears
broken while $su(3)$ confines, (IV) baryon-lepton number (B - L) conservation,
(V) the standard electroweak structure, (VI) a 3-valued generation index for
leptons and quarks, and (VII) a dynamical system with all the essential
features of an earlier phenomenological model \cite{genmixdsm} which gave a
good description of the known mass and mixing patterns of quarks and leptons
including neutrino oscillations. There are other implications the consistency
of which with experiment, however, has not yet been systematically explored. A
possible outcome is a whole new branch of particle spectroscopy from $su(2)$
confinement, potentially as rich in details as that of hadrons from colour
confinement, which will be accessible to experiment at high energy.
