The recent case involving a PRC Han Chinese abusing a local Malay sparked a storm over online fora. Worst of all, he boasted about it on a forum for new arrivals.
In another 5 -10 years time, PRCs and India Indians will probably outnumber locals if we are not careful. These new arrivals have never had to live in a multi-racial, multi-cultural, multi-lingual society side by side, in schools, HDB flats, parks, etc. Back in their own countries, their minorities are often pushed to the fringes, to distant provinces ( as in China) or subjected to constant strife and bullying ( as in India). If these people come here and continue with their bullying behaviour, they will threaten social peace and stability, as the above case has shown. Growing resentment has already built up even between ethnic Chinese and Indians from China and India with the local counterparts here.
Instead of casting unkind remarks on the local Malays and blaming them for the lack of integration, such a person as former MM, SM & PM Lee Kuan Yew should stop smarting from his Separation baggage and coach the younger Cabinet to take stock and start focusing on these new emigres and to see to it that they are adopting the right values, outlook, and attitudes to assimilate and integrate beside just taking the oath. It's high time they actually understand the pledge which generations of Singaporeans had to utter every morning in school, in NS, and on other important occasions.
No use spending thousands of dollars on useless tea parties where only the new arrivals attend.
In another 5 -10 years time, PRCs and India Indians will probably outnumber locals if we are not careful. These new arrivals have never had to live in a multi-racial, multi-cultural, multi-lingual society side by side, in schools, HDB flats, parks, etc. Back in their own countries, their minorities are often pushed to the fringes, to distant provinces ( as in China) or subjected to constant strife and bullying ( as in India). If these people come here and continue with their bullying behaviour, they will threaten social peace and stability, as the above case has shown. Growing resentment has already built up even between ethnic Chinese and Indians from China and India with the local counterparts here.
Instead of casting unkind remarks on the local Malays and blaming them for the lack of integration, such a person as former MM, SM & PM Lee Kuan Yew should stop smarting from his Separation baggage and coach the younger Cabinet to take stock and start focusing on these new emigres and to see to it that they are adopting the right values, outlook, and attitudes to assimilate and integrate beside just taking the oath. It's high time they actually understand the pledge which generations of Singaporeans had to utter every morning in school, in NS, and on other important occasions.
No use spending thousands of dollars on useless tea parties where only the new arrivals attend.
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