Attitude Towards Foreigners

[jw5]

Some people have said in this forum that they would not patronize stalls or shops manned by foreigners. Others have said that they would not help foreigners who needed help, even if it was something simple like asking directions.

In other threads, there are also discussions that there are so many foreigners these days, that almost one in two people you pass or meet could be a foreigner. There's no doubt that there are many foreigners around these days, whether newly minted citizens, prs, those on employment passes or work permits, even tourists and visitors.

It could be very troublesome, perhaps even expensive to only patronize stalls or shops manned by locals. I wonder if those who made the above claims still manage to stick to their words. Perhaps we can discuss the following 3 aspects:

1. Patronizing shops or stalls manned by foreigners
The basis for me to patronize a stall or shop is purely based on the service provided or the quality of the goods, attitude of the service staff whether local or foreign, and the convenience. I have not been able to make it a point to patronise only those locally manned stalls or shops, perhaps those who have can share your experiences.

2. Helping foreigners
If it's something simple and quick like giving directions, I have tried to and would help both locals and foreigners. (Some people have mentioned before pointing the foreigners the wrong way!) But if it's something that involves time or money, I'm inclined to help the singaporean. Don't see any reason to give money to a foreign beggar, he shouldn't be here. But the local guy may have fallen on hard times and have no choice.

3. Heeding the government's call
To "integrate" with them, to have them "integrate" with us, to be kind and nice. I totally ignore this. Who I "integrate" with is none of their business.

 

[Unrepented]

We have embraced real foreign talents all along. Real talent and dedication are most welcomed because of our declining population as a result of social engineering.

Case in point, nurses from myanmar working in hospice were very dedicated and hardworking. They made life very much more bearable for the dying and let them die with some level of dignity. They performed their duties from their heart.

But those like the wayang singhaha cb type are the ones we can do without.

And some cb close both eyes and let these wayang come in and call us dogs, and act first class.

It is also a disservice to other real foreign talent and sinkies, to let these singhaha wayang take up the space and opportunity.

Some people have said in this forum that they would not patronize stalls or shops manned by foreigners. Others have said that they would not help foreigners who needed help, even if it was something simple like asking directions.

In other threads, there are also discussions that there are so many foreigners these days, that almost one in two people you pass or meet could be a foreigner. There's no doubt that there are many foreigners around these days, whether newly minted citizens, prs, those on employment passes or work permits, even tourists and visitors.

It could be very troublesome, perhaps even expensive to only patronize stalls or shops manned by locals. I wonder if those who made the above claims still manage to stick to their words. Perhaps we can discuss the following 3 aspects:

1. Patronizing shops or stalls manned by foreigners
The basis for me to patronize a stall or shop is purely based on the service provided or the quality of the goods, attitude of the service staff whether local or foreign, and the convenience. I have not been able to make it a point to patronise only those locally manned stalls or shops, perhaps those who have can share your experiences.

2. Helping foreigners
If it's something simple and quick like giving directions, I have tried to and would help both locals and foreigners. (Some people have mentioned before pointing the foreigners the wrong way!) But if it's something that involves time or money, I'm inclined to help the singaporean. Don't see any reason to give money to a foreign beggar, he shouldn't be here. But the local guy may have fallen on hard times and have no choice.

3. Heeding the government's call
To "integrate" with them, to have them "integrate" with us, to be kind and nice. I totally ignore this. Who I "integrate" with is none of their business.

 

[myfoot123]

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In other threads, there are also discussions that there are so many foreigners these days, that almost one in two people you pass or meet could be a foreigner. There's no doubt that there are many foreigners around these days, whether newly minted citizens, prs, those on employment passes or work permits, even tourists and visitors.

The most unbearable ones that need to be kicked in the butt are found mostly in Group A:-

Group A
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Those simple-minded ones found in YPAP forum hoping to jump queue in sharing pie built by Singaporeans AND they don't want to serve National Service.

ST Ghost writers (especially PAP praisers) with agenda hoping to get noticed AND they don't want to be citizen.

Those who claimed to be Talent but Trash-in-disguise and than run road after earning enough in office (at all cost including lying about their qualifications) AND THEY only want to be PR or EP to recruit their own kind. This are the majority group that Upped our cost of livings to make Singaporeans suffer.


The only places where I don't blame foreigner and still felt they are needed in places such as Group B:

Cleaners
Construction workers
Nurses

Unfortunately PAP has deliberately misread the people mind and blamed us for blaming Group B when in fact we strongly discourage Group A from entering our shores where they steal our jobs in the name of "Talent" when our education are supposedly to be the best and ahead of their. Unless MOE is just another scam to cheat our children's monies and is just another highfallutin education HUB?

 

[jw5]

Other than cleaners, construction workers and nurses, there are also foreign maids and foreigners working in key positions in mncs.
The former group of workers are foreigners who are really needed and have been in SG for years.
The latter group are those guys appointed to be the regional MD or the country manager of certain mncs. These are people who really help to "create or keep jobs" in SG, as in that the mncs would be really uncomfortable if they couldn't appoint such a person if they were to remain in SG. The real "talents" so to speak, and they have also been around for years. Of course, we may not like all of them, but that's not the issue.

The foreigners in question are those who have only come here in recent years. Retail staff, food servers, mid level managers and executives, customer service staff etc, all positions which could easily be filled by singaporeans or malaysians. The issue is what our attitude is towards this lot or what our attitude should be.

 

[Teo Kok Eng]

Patronizing shops or stalls manned by foreigners

I can still patronize a stall manned by foreigners but not cooked by foreigners, unless the foreigner has proven he can cook that local dish.

 

[drifter]

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

 

[Received_by_Kings]

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

Rubbish. What is country without government?

 

[Received_by_Kings]

Can't believe I actually read this boring thread, and what was written by the dumb Shina above me.

Reading up on people is nice just so I can understand them a bit better, but for these two, the buck stops here. It should.

 

[Zangief]

Can't believe I actually read this boring thread, and what was written by the dumb Shina above me.

Reading up on people is nice just so I can understand them a bit better, but for these two, the buck stops here. It should.

Another PAP undercover agent spotted by the OA ! You are to die along with your partner-in-crime manokie but i will give you one week of freedom to post here after which you will be on a sponsored long vacation courtesy of the OA.

 

[gbomega]

Crazy, it's not the foreigners fault to begin with, it's the policy. See things in perspective please.

 

[Maverick01]

I can still patronize a stall manned by foreigners but not cooked by foreigners, unless the foreigner has proven he can cook that local dish.

normally manned and cooked by foreigners nowadays...

 

[drifter]

Rubbish. What is country without government?

if a goverment is fuckup ..its better without goverment ..

 

[Robert Half]

Other than cleaners, construction workers and nurses,

I would think we need foreigners to fill in the above positions as it is shunned by Singaporeans.

Frankly we do not need so many S-Pass level foreign people here and also malaysians workers here.
These positions can be easily fill in by our local Polytechnic graduates (Diploma holders)

 

[ah_phah]

in another forum, many r being kind & nice to the foreigners, and also put in alot of effort to interact & integrate with them. however, due to the recent clamp down on budget hotels & transitions, the guys find it a lil less convenient to integrate with the foreigners liao.

sad to say, some owners r being penalized & imprisoned for integrating with their domestic helpers.

 

[Robert Half]

in another forum, many r being kind & nice to the foreigners, and also put in alot of effort to interact & integrate with them. however, due to the recent clamp down on budget hotels & transitions, the guys find it a lil less convenient to integrate with the foreigners liao.

sad to say, some owners r being penalized & imprisoned for integrating with their domestic helpers.

Singaporeans is so nice to foreign workers & PRs here.

Try to find jobs in USA, London UK or Japan and see how people in these countries treat you

 

[Liquigas]

Other than cleaners, construction workers and nurses,

I would think we need foreigners to fill in the above positions as it is shunned by Singaporeans.

But then how come in Australia, cleaners, construction workers and nurses are the local whites?

 

[jw5]

But then how come in Australia, cleaners, construction workers and nurses are the local whites?

Because the workers there are paid a reasonable wage for the work that they do.
Unlike here where some people are paid exhorbitant salaries for stating the obvious and making motherhood statements.
Correction, there was actually last time. These days, they are making incomprehensible statements and spending vast sums of money and claiming that they should have spent more.
Incorrigible and recalcitrant.

 

[pc2009]

Agree with gbomega, don't get distracted. It's the policy, not FTs. They come in legally.