Diversity in the Singapore had been primarily driven by mass immigration 50-100 years ago. We spent the 1970-90s integrating the various races. Roti-prata is my favourite breakfast being a Chinese, born in Singapore and I trust my Malay bunkmates in ICT more than the young dishonest PRC punk who is really there to serve n fuck off.
Then the floodgates re-opened in the early 2000s.
Prefered MNCs are free to bring in unlimited foreign-headcounts. Even F&B establishments like Haidilao enjoys almost unlimited quota foreign-worker quota while local competitor struggled. Some local employees feel isolated in their workplace while their foreign-superiors bring in their own kind and discriminate those with ICT obligations. In these MNCs, capable Singaporeans report to the foreign-bosses and Malaysian-born. Don't believe? Ask the Japanese and 3M. Even our stat boards hire Filipinos in their HR functions to fug locals.
Many local-born are derived of schooling in preferred primary school despite their daddies or granddads having served NS, while foreigners continued to gain entry into elite primary schools or ASEAN, Indian, China scholars studied for almost free and bond-free in our schools and universities. WTF??? We are raising other people's children at the expense of ours.
Last weekend, I dined at Buffettown and the oyster counter staff demanded me to speak Chinese RUDELY when all I did was to ask where the oysters were from. In many workplaces and communities, there is this isolating feeling being locally-born. It sucks when you have no one to speak to or have others tell you that they can't understand you because of your accent. Sounds familiar?
I can't help feeling very racist. I am a chinese, yet I can't stand the Chinese from China or Indonesia who jumped my supermarket queue, (males) walking around topless in my neighbourhood, their kids sticking together and deprive my child at the local playground, treating Singapore like their vassal state.
My country's policymakers negatively associated locals as "xenophobic" when we flag that we are unfairly-treated in Singapore. But that’s not me, man. I know they aren’t bad people. They’re just sticking together like any of us would. My grandparents were immigrants from Malaysia and China. I grew up in Singapore. In the course of my work, I made friends from all over the world.
This is reality. We have became a minority in our own homeland.
Then the floodgates re-opened in the early 2000s.
Prefered MNCs are free to bring in unlimited foreign-headcounts. Even F&B establishments like Haidilao enjoys almost unlimited quota foreign-worker quota while local competitor struggled. Some local employees feel isolated in their workplace while their foreign-superiors bring in their own kind and discriminate those with ICT obligations. In these MNCs, capable Singaporeans report to the foreign-bosses and Malaysian-born. Don't believe? Ask the Japanese and 3M. Even our stat boards hire Filipinos in their HR functions to fug locals.
Many local-born are derived of schooling in preferred primary school despite their daddies or granddads having served NS, while foreigners continued to gain entry into elite primary schools or ASEAN, Indian, China scholars studied for almost free and bond-free in our schools and universities. WTF??? We are raising other people's children at the expense of ours.
Last weekend, I dined at Buffettown and the oyster counter staff demanded me to speak Chinese RUDELY when all I did was to ask where the oysters were from. In many workplaces and communities, there is this isolating feeling being locally-born. It sucks when you have no one to speak to or have others tell you that they can't understand you because of your accent. Sounds familiar?
I can't help feeling very racist. I am a chinese, yet I can't stand the Chinese from China or Indonesia who jumped my supermarket queue, (males) walking around topless in my neighbourhood, their kids sticking together and deprive my child at the local playground, treating Singapore like their vassal state.
My country's policymakers negatively associated locals as "xenophobic" when we flag that we are unfairly-treated in Singapore. But that’s not me, man. I know they aren’t bad people. They’re just sticking together like any of us would. My grandparents were immigrants from Malaysia and China. I grew up in Singapore. In the course of my work, I made friends from all over the world.
This is reality. We have became a minority in our own homeland.
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