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[h=2]Vietnamese student in Singapore: I believe my country has a brighter future than Singapore[/h]Posted by temasektimes on March 11, 2012
The Singapore government may be bending down on its knees in a desperate attempt to lure foreigners to study in Singapore in the hope that they may settle down here eventually, but most of them, at least for the Vietnamese, do not have the intention of relocating to Singapore for a good.
In a fierce exchange between a group of Singaporean and Vietnamese students on the Temasek Times, one Vietnamese student studying in Singapore wrote he will be returning to Vietnam upon completion of his students here and even sneered at the long-term prospects of Singapore.
“I believe my country has a brighter future than Singapore. We just come here to study, some might stay to work for a few years but most of us come back to Vietnam eventually. Vietnam might be behind you guys at the moment due to historical reasons, just like every other emerging country. But look at the long-term prospect, 20-30 years later I dun think your country has any future without relying on the global/regional markets including Vietnam, Indonesia, and especially China.”
When pointed out by a Singaporean that Singapore is a ‘magnet’ for the ‘brightest minds’ of less developed countries like Vietnam, the Vietnamese student retorted:
” Probably you don’t know that the majority of “foreign talents” that you country drains are people from PRC or ethnic Chinese people from Malaysia and Indonesia who are treated unfairly in the home country. Most of the others including “ang moh” and Vietnamese that I know only consider your country as “a middle checkpoint in their journey”. Quite a number of my friends worked here for a few years and continued their studies in another country and then stayed there. But most of them went back to Vietnam.”
He admitted that he would rather return to Singapore to live like a ‘king’ there than to remain in Singapore:
“Let’s say you can earn 10,000 a month here and probably you’re gonna spend a significant amount of that on all kinds of fees. In that case, I would like to go back Vietnam and earn 3,000 but I am gonna live like a king there.You probably still can see some Vietnamese trying to convert their citizenship to enjoy what you called “a life you might never get in your home country”, but given thousands of Vietnamese students coming to Singapore to study each year, the percentage of those who finally settle here is quite negligible.”
It is not known if he is a MOE scholar like the much maligned PRC scholar Sun Xu who sparked nationwide outcry with his now infamous remarks on ‘there being more dogs than humans in Singapore.’
Senior Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Education & Ministry of Law Ms Sim Ann revealed recently in Parliament that the Singapore government spends some $36 million dollars on scholarships to over two thousand foreign students each year, or about S$174,00 per scholar.
The percentage of foreign scholars and students who ultimately choose to take up Singapore citizenship in the end is not known.
The Singapore government may be bending down on its knees in a desperate attempt to lure foreigners to study in Singapore in the hope that they may settle down here eventually, but most of them, at least for the Vietnamese, do not have the intention of relocating to Singapore for a good.In a fierce exchange between a group of Singaporean and Vietnamese students on the Temasek Times, one Vietnamese student studying in Singapore wrote he will be returning to Vietnam upon completion of his students here and even sneered at the long-term prospects of Singapore.
“I believe my country has a brighter future than Singapore. We just come here to study, some might stay to work for a few years but most of us come back to Vietnam eventually. Vietnam might be behind you guys at the moment due to historical reasons, just like every other emerging country. But look at the long-term prospect, 20-30 years later I dun think your country has any future without relying on the global/regional markets including Vietnam, Indonesia, and especially China.”
When pointed out by a Singaporean that Singapore is a ‘magnet’ for the ‘brightest minds’ of less developed countries like Vietnam, the Vietnamese student retorted:
” Probably you don’t know that the majority of “foreign talents” that you country drains are people from PRC or ethnic Chinese people from Malaysia and Indonesia who are treated unfairly in the home country. Most of the others including “ang moh” and Vietnamese that I know only consider your country as “a middle checkpoint in their journey”. Quite a number of my friends worked here for a few years and continued their studies in another country and then stayed there. But most of them went back to Vietnam.”
He admitted that he would rather return to Singapore to live like a ‘king’ there than to remain in Singapore:
“Let’s say you can earn 10,000 a month here and probably you’re gonna spend a significant amount of that on all kinds of fees. In that case, I would like to go back Vietnam and earn 3,000 but I am gonna live like a king there.You probably still can see some Vietnamese trying to convert their citizenship to enjoy what you called “a life you might never get in your home country”, but given thousands of Vietnamese students coming to Singapore to study each year, the percentage of those who finally settle here is quite negligible.”
It is not known if he is a MOE scholar like the much maligned PRC scholar Sun Xu who sparked nationwide outcry with his now infamous remarks on ‘there being more dogs than humans in Singapore.’
Senior Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Education & Ministry of Law Ms Sim Ann revealed recently in Parliament that the Singapore government spends some $36 million dollars on scholarships to over two thousand foreign students each year, or about S$174,00 per scholar.
The percentage of foreign scholars and students who ultimately choose to take up Singapore citizenship in the end is not known.
