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[h=2]SG Indian Bro: Propaganda for media to portray Indian FTs integrating ‘well’ with SGs[/h]
April 12th, 2013 |
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Foreign PMETs from India
I read with dismay the article which was published. According to the Hindustantimes, the newly arrived foreign talents are integrating well with the Singaporeans. The media quoted the DPM Teo Chee Hian as saying, “Indian professionals in Singapore have taken a lead in integrating with the city-state’s populace and contributing to the development of the local Indian community.”
http://www.tremeritus.com/2013/04/11/foreign-indian-talents-integrating-well-with-sporeans/
I am a local SG Indian who is staying in Melbourne currently and have seen the contrast of both countries and I have to say this:
http://www.tremeritus.com/2013/04/08/spore-dpm-teo-applauds-indian-expats-community-work/
Singaporeans may not be aware of differentiation of cross cultural reporting and articles with diaspora agenda due to the controlled state of the Singapore media.
This is a fine example of propaganda reporting both by the Singapore media and the Indian media. It is ridiculous to think that both believe in each other’s propaganda article. On the ground, it is far from the truth.
Integration is never possible because of the way both Indian groups view each other. The Singaporean Indians or Australians do not have a good impression of these Indian nationals and seem to view them as corrupt and opportunistic vultures.
It’s even ridiculous to expect any form of community work from them in any organizations like Sinda as mentioned by DPM Teo as they, these Indian nationals, are not known for that even back in their own country. Such efforts to integrate them will result in more backlash and disharmony. These Indians are not allowed in Australia’s socioeconomic environment or anywhere else for that matter.
India is well known as the most racist and discriminatory country in the world as they discriminate among their own kinds. This is a well known trait of them known worldwide and absolutely condemned in many advanced western developed nations.
The current Indian constitution bans discrimination on the basis of caste and use of the term “untouchable”, and the Indian government has instituted affirmative action programs for those who have become known as the Dalits, or “crushed peoples”. Individual Dalits have achieved great political and financial success, but as a group they still complain of sometimes violent discrimination. The growth of information-age India has reduced the economic importance of the caste system, but its social and religious aspects remain a significant and sometimes divisive part of Indian life. The losers who perpetrate this will look for elsewhere to practice the caste system and on their nationalities.
Corruption is also rampant in India. In 2010 World Bank study of 151 countries concluded that India’s shadow economy, defined as legal activity concealed from the authorities, was equivalent to a fifth of official GDP (confusing matters, it is unclear to what extent India’s official GDP already captures the black economy). That is roughly double the level of the best rich countries, but below the global average and most other emerging nations. The last vaguely official study was in 1985 and had a similar answer—19-21% of official GDP.
The above problems were created by the self proclaimed “high caste Indians” in India, not by the ordinary people in the Indian streets.
It is these same people who arrive in Singapore and Australia and other western countries.In the other countries unlike Singapore they
are “being put in their place” with effective social policy laws .
U can take an Indian out of India but u can never take the India out of the Indian.
.
SG Indian in Melbourne
I read with dismay the article which was published. According to the Hindustantimes, the newly arrived foreign talents are integrating well with the Singaporeans. The media quoted the DPM Teo Chee Hian as saying, “Indian professionals in Singapore have taken a lead in integrating with the city-state’s populace and contributing to the development of the local Indian community.”
http://www.tremeritus.com/2013/04/11/foreign-indian-talents-integrating-well-with-sporeans/
I am a local SG Indian who is staying in Melbourne currently and have seen the contrast of both countries and I have to say this:
Every Indian national who arrived from India has left a bad taste for me in Australia. They were utterly corrupt and expect nepotism and cronyism within their own kind.
There is no integration going on in Australia and there never will be in Singapore too and the article by the Hindustan times was just propaganda. Or it was meant to be a feel good article written by clueless reporters in India who probably read Singapore deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean’s comments in the article:
http://www.tremeritus.com/2013/04/08/spore-dpm-teo-applauds-indian-expats-community-work/
Singaporeans may not be aware of differentiation of cross cultural reporting and articles with diaspora agenda due to the controlled state of the Singapore media.
This is a fine example of propaganda reporting both by the Singapore media and the Indian media. It is ridiculous to think that both believe in each other’s propaganda article. On the ground, it is far from the truth.
Integration is never possible because of the way both Indian groups view each other. The Singaporean Indians or Australians do not have a good impression of these Indian nationals and seem to view them as corrupt and opportunistic vultures.
It’s even ridiculous to expect any form of community work from them in any organizations like Sinda as mentioned by DPM Teo as they, these Indian nationals, are not known for that even back in their own country. Such efforts to integrate them will result in more backlash and disharmony. These Indians are not allowed in Australia’s socioeconomic environment or anywhere else for that matter.
India is well known as the most racist and discriminatory country in the world as they discriminate among their own kinds. This is a well known trait of them known worldwide and absolutely condemned in many advanced western developed nations.
The current Indian constitution bans discrimination on the basis of caste and use of the term “untouchable”, and the Indian government has instituted affirmative action programs for those who have become known as the Dalits, or “crushed peoples”. Individual Dalits have achieved great political and financial success, but as a group they still complain of sometimes violent discrimination. The growth of information-age India has reduced the economic importance of the caste system, but its social and religious aspects remain a significant and sometimes divisive part of Indian life. The losers who perpetrate this will look for elsewhere to practice the caste system and on their nationalities.
Corruption is also rampant in India. In 2010 World Bank study of 151 countries concluded that India’s shadow economy, defined as legal activity concealed from the authorities, was equivalent to a fifth of official GDP (confusing matters, it is unclear to what extent India’s official GDP already captures the black economy). That is roughly double the level of the best rich countries, but below the global average and most other emerging nations. The last vaguely official study was in 1985 and had a similar answer—19-21% of official GDP.
The above problems were created by the self proclaimed “high caste Indians” in India, not by the ordinary people in the Indian streets.
It is these same people who arrive in Singapore and Australia and other western countries.In the other countries unlike Singapore they
are “being put in their place” with effective social policy laws .
U can take an Indian out of India but u can never take the India out of the Indian.
.
SG Indian in Melbourne
