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oei, one prataman not enuff ah.
btw, indian chief not required here.
btw, indian chief not required here.
That you see minorities holding positions in excess of their percentage of population as an act of kindness on the part of the state belies your condescension towards them. I doubt I will change your attitude and will not pursue this further.
Similarly, if you think I construed inferiority of the Chinese in our population, I will only protest but will not tire myself with trying to convince someone who just will not see.
But to answer your question about the two, I know two Chinese people who are Indian nationals born and bred.
Also, many but by no means all Sikhs would protest at being called Indian. Similarly, not a few Indians see Sikhs as being an other. The main reasons are their religions and cultures. But you don't have to believe me if you don't want to. It's a free world.
You believe my PRC boss' action of stuffing the dept with his fellow PRC is unusual. I hope so, because that dept is now being ruined by people who do not understand Singaporean culture and who will not learn.
I think Mr Singh , if offered to be a PM of Singapore will decline. For a man of his caliber he should be running a complex and Large country like India , Singapore is under utilization of his potential.
Cos sg doesn't need him moron.
Which ever way you put it..MORON
go suck him since ur in love with him. AIDS freak.
India has yet to have a Chinese PM but right now they seem closer to doing that than Singapore is to having a non-Chinese PM. This is especially sad when we recall that our first elected CM was an Iraqi Jew. Yet after independence, all the murmurings of the need for a 'majority-race' PM started. And that's where we're stuck at.
You make it seem as if only Indians have the habit of getting 'their kind' into positions of power / influence when they themselves are in power. Well, my very Chinese PRC ex-boss 'nationally' cleansed my former department of all Singaporeans, including me! He is right now trying to get rid of the remaining Brit.
So there are bad Chinese people with very bad habits as well as bad Indian ones. Stand up to being marginalised by all means, but let's not do it by marginalising others. It does our cause no good.
For the record, I am a Chinese Singaporean.
India is no different from the other pseudo 3rd world democracies. In India you have the Gandhi family - from Nehru to Manmohan - it is all controlled by the same family since independence with short periods when the BJP came into power. Manmohan is nothing but a front man for Gandhi family. With Philippines it is pretty much controlled by Marcos/Aquino - add a few top families.
The vote of the poor can easily be bought for 10 lbs of rice. Think about it. How can it be that in a country as rich as India, that after 60 years of independence that majority of pop have no toilets and poop on the street; child mortality is high.
If indeed it was 1 man 1 vote, they would have voted out the Gandhi for mismanaging the nation and not being able to provide the bare basics - clean water, laterines, etc.
In a true democracy, 1 bad term and you are OUT!
Better to make bad decisions yourself than to have someone else making supposedly "good" decisions for you against your volition. The premise of anti-democracy rests on the purported omniscience of government which has no basis in reality whatsoever.![]()
Omniscience? No basis in reality? I think you better stop with this pseudo intellectual BS.
Opps i forgot to add yeah that's why it's so cool for india to have no toilets and the entire country is like a toilet. I really like the basis of your argument. You actually praised the negative points he gave about india and how "cool" it is to make a "bad decision" which is such a juevenile way of describing how fucked up india is than the actually have things that work cos those are forced against your will so to speak. This shows that your sense of logic isn't even there.
Pseudo intellectual BS which you incidentally can't refute. Show me a government in this world who knows it all
Unlike you, the poor in India can't afford luxuries such as toilets when they barely have enough food to eat. If I were an Indian living in the slums of Mumbai, the rational decision would be to vote for the candidate who offers 10 lbs of rice that could sustain my family for awhile till the familiarity of starvation recurs. If a more enlightened candidate who has the rhetorical ability to convince me to take a longer view were to come along, he would have my vote too. The crux of the matter is that the power to vote is a power per se. Why would anyone wish to divest himself of power of any kind? Democracy doesn't necessarily have to be a devolution of decision making. Why else do you think so many countries adopted representative democracy?![]()
i like this example you have given. "If I were an Indian living in the slums of Mumbai, the rational decision would be to vote for the candidate who offers 10 lbs of rice that could sustain my family for awhile till the familiarity of starvation recurs." Let's apply this to the PAP running sg. PAP offers incentives so that voters will vote for them in terms of cash, free food and etc Sure they take it back somehow after the election or it's peanuts to them well that's the same exact situation in india. That 10lb of rice is literally peanuts to the politicians they could have given it away for free too. Therefore from that example given you area actually indirectly saying you agree with the PAP way of giving incentives to voters and that voters should be happy voting for pap when they get these incentives that incidently many ppl have complained about the voters that vote pap for these incentives like flat upgrading and so on.