A political hot potato which may accelerate the demise of the PAP is the huge influx of PRCs. The influx has caused many social problems which the pap is trying desperately to mitigate.
On one end are the PRCs. They come from poor villages, unused to sophisticated city life, bring in their bad habits and idiosyncracies and 3rd world mentality. I was told by a friend that she was shocked when a pretty PRC admin lady just stripped off her underwear and sat on the throne to ease herself without closing the toilet cubicle door because many China toilets have no door. She was unfazed to be bottomless, spread on the toilet seat. Would any SG gal not be appalled? Such is the great divide between SG Chinese and PRCs. Singaporeans are also perturbed by the littering, jumping of queues and talking loudly by these PRCs.
On the other end are SG Chinese. These Singaporeans are used to conversing in English and are not comfortable to speak to the new PRC migrants who can only speak in their native heavily accented mandarin. The PRCs looked pissed by these Chinese Singaporeans who prefer to use English in SG to the extent that the PRCs despise the local Chinese. This can be a serious problem because the locals will not take it lightly as the PRCs are in SG and not China and it is incumbent for themj to assimilate rather than they expect Singaporeans to accommodate them.
These have caused some friction among the local Chinese and PRC migrants. The PAP has its work cut out for its bad policy of liberally letting in so many foreigners, thinking that it is a panacea to SG's problems. Instead this will bring more problems to SG
On one end are the PRCs. They come from poor villages, unused to sophisticated city life, bring in their bad habits and idiosyncracies and 3rd world mentality. I was told by a friend that she was shocked when a pretty PRC admin lady just stripped off her underwear and sat on the throne to ease herself without closing the toilet cubicle door because many China toilets have no door. She was unfazed to be bottomless, spread on the toilet seat. Would any SG gal not be appalled? Such is the great divide between SG Chinese and PRCs. Singaporeans are also perturbed by the littering, jumping of queues and talking loudly by these PRCs.
On the other end are SG Chinese. These Singaporeans are used to conversing in English and are not comfortable to speak to the new PRC migrants who can only speak in their native heavily accented mandarin. The PRCs looked pissed by these Chinese Singaporeans who prefer to use English in SG to the extent that the PRCs despise the local Chinese. This can be a serious problem because the locals will not take it lightly as the PRCs are in SG and not China and it is incumbent for themj to assimilate rather than they expect Singaporeans to accommodate them.
These have caused some friction among the local Chinese and PRC migrants. The PAP has its work cut out for its bad policy of liberally letting in so many foreigners, thinking that it is a panacea to SG's problems. Instead this will bring more problems to SG
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