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Class division in Singapore

guy2100

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A cynical write-up on the growing separation in society. By XenoBoy.
Aug 12, 2008

Why They Like Singapore
There are some Singaporeans who like Singapore.

They belong to that sacred convenant of Singaporeans who have the most freedom in this island state.

Well-schooled through the elite schools and recipients of prestigious scholarships to Oxbridge or the Ivy League, this class of Singaporeans are intelligent, articulate, sagely and well ensconced in the civil service, in the national newspapers, in the major GLCs, which run Clockwork Singapore.

These Singaporeans have it good. They can speak, reason and talk about politics in valuable newspaper space with absolute free reign. What authoritarian Singapore? They ask. They have all the freedom to publish commentaries with absolute impunity.

They can talk about the Singapore system, on political accountability, freely without the blighting shadow of defamation.

For these Singaporeans, they cannot understand why other Singaporeans cry bloody murder on freedom of expression, freedom of speech, or the lack of human rights in Singapore. They cannot understand why Westerners hate Singapore.

In their sanguine sagacity, they dismiss these complaining Singaporeans as blue-eyed idealists who will grow out of their angst and accept the system; they scoff at the Western detractors as jealous, as cultural bigots who cannot escape the liberal paradigms they were schooled under.

These Singaporeans, so rational and pragmatic, who always have the answers, rooted deep in an ultra-Rankean historical perspective, for every contradiction apparent in Singapore society today.

Ministerial accountability for a terrorist escape? Look through the annals of history, there is no need. Why this fury?

Raising taxes to help the poor? Look at history and you see that the people have to bite the bullet to survive economic crises.

Gerrymandering in elections? Come on, we are a multi-racial society which needs proportional representation for the sake of democracy.

Every contradiction. A perfect, rational answer. Sometimes backed up with the necessary statistics.

These Singaporeans have absolutely no reason to dislike, what more hate Singapore? They reap the fruits of this nation's spectacular economic success. They enjoy great career success and hold positions of influence in the political, social, economic fields.

They are the direct beneficiaries of Singapore Inc, the beautiful meritocracy of controlled political diversity.

These Singaporeans, who read the Singapore Story as how the PAP triumphed against the communists (after riding on the Malayan Communist Party to obtain political power and betraying them), went through a painful Merger with Malaysia (and the launch of Operation Cold Store to remove all the political opponents under the war against Communism), fighting the economic struggles of 1970s (enacting the Trade Union Act, the Newspaper Act, forcing the closure of Nantah and Chinese schools to annihilate all the bastions of Communist mass support), rising to the housing challenge with HDB (the forced repatriation of Singaporeans who received no compensation and the enactment of the grassroots RCs who receive favoured distribution of flats) and the birth of a modern economic miracle ( via the systematic de-politicisation of society).

Really, for these Singaporeans, what's there to dislike, much less hate about Singapore? For them, the grass is always green. For them, a 10% pay-cut is just a few hundred off their six figure salaries.

For them, the ERP is wonderful for removing congestion. For them, raising bus fares is an alien notion because they do not take buses. For them, Singapore is wonderful, they are free to do anything and they are happy citizens.

They just have to sing One song. They just have to believe in One nation. They just have to see One people.

And these Singaporeans are One Singapore.

Waltzing on a glass floor, looking down on the rest of the country, the rest of the world.

While the rest of us lift our heads and watch them dance through the glass ceiling.
 

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From among true, blue Singaporeans who feel eased out of the country by foreigners. By redbean.
Aug 12, 2008

The unhealthy disquiet
Is there a disquiet among Singaporeans? We have 4.6m people here. The Singaporeans do not include the more than 1m foreigners. It does not include the probably another 1m PRs. Don't let anyone change the definition of Singaporeans.

The Made In Singapore, the true owners of this land is about 2.5m. And if we remove the top 20% from this group, we will be left with about 2m Singaporeans that really matters.

The top 20% don't matter in the sense that they can go anywhere and are welcome anywhere. And many of these 20% may have made alternative arrangements to be somewhere if need be.

The unhealthy disquiet is about the disquiet of the balance 2m Singaporeans who are gradually being displaced or eased out of their comfort zones.

It is like the parents bringing in a few strangers and telling the children to make room for them, squeeze out a room for the strangers. And also being told to smile and to be nice to the strangers.

The children will not accept that and will protest or refuse to budge. Why should they give up their space in their home to strangers?

But parents would not do that. They know the difference between home and the right of their own children. They will provide for their own children, even sleeping in the corridors themselves. That is what parents would do.

The landlord will do exactly as above. They will make the tenants make way. They will tell the tenants the best rooms will be reserved for the one who can afford to pay. And if the tenants could not pay the higher rent, they will have to squeeze into one room, or move out.

Is this disquiet healthy? Some may think that since no one is screaming or protesting, then it is good. But do they read into the disquiet?

Why are Singaporeans not protesting? Resigned, gave up, no use fighting, accept their fate, or think of leaving?

A nation is a collection of people who owns and belong to a place. The people must think and believe that that place is theirs, their home. And they will not take it lightly when their rights to their home is challenged.

But when there is a disquiet, something is missing. The soul of the nation, the spirit of a people is missing. Where is the spirit?.

When a people gives up fighting, when a people gives up protesting, they deserve to be replaced. It may be a good thing replacing these hopeless and less talented people.

They lack the motivation to fight for themselves and their rights to ownership. They should be replaced by the highly motivated and energised foreigners who brought along a different vibration, a higher vibrancy.

They should be the new owners of this paradise.

You find them everywhere and they can be easily recognised. The chirpy and happy faces in trains or foodcourts are the distinct faces of the newcomers who have found their paradise here.

The grumpy, groomy and lost look faces are those of the Singaporeans. Lost in the pursuit to making ends meet, and a lot of bills to pay.

Singaporeans who are complacent of their rightful existence in their own homeland will live to regret it one day.

Many are still in their comfort zone and think it will not affect them. Before they know it, things would have changed so much that they would not know what hits them.
 

cass888

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There are also at least two other categories of Singaporeans who are happy here:

1. The Chinese businessmen who can run their businesses with impunity and not have the bleeding heart liberals set the unions at them.
2. The middleclass who still drive their cars, grumble a bit about the ERP but the ERP they pay is not even half of their drinks at Boat Quay after work.
3. The typical HDB 4-5 room dweller who thinks life is good anyway and wonder why the MONGREL who bit his masters' hands LOUDHAILER chee soon juan is making so much noise. If they vote opposition, they will vote for LTK who visits their funeral wakes rather than for the madman with the loudhailer.
 

Hakka Tiow

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I've got this article printed. The next time somebody ask me what is my beef with my political leaders, I'll just show them this. Save alot of time and breath.
 

Nomad

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every corner or countries in this planet also have class division.
even in the animal's kingdom/world,there is also class division.
 
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