Of course because of the bad names and actions of some FT
Indians, we aren't keen to pick them up.
And local Indians, th rowdy types that go to bars, pubs, discos
too, these we shy away because unfortunately some of them behave
badly and give a bad name to all.
For Pinoys, they start chattering non stop, sometimes we also
get headache.
For Banglas/ Tamil work permit holders, we avoid because of the
smell.
For Malays youngsters, we avoid sometimes because they chao cab
or like happen to some, robbery, so we are cautious.
For local Chinese women, we hv to be careful because they like
to complain one, especially the educated ones (the same with
educated Indian gals). I think generally the most likely
complainants are local Chinese women in their late 20s to 30s.
For foreign Chinese because they very yaya one and just because
this is Singapore not China (where they very scared of
authorities), they go wilder here.
For Ang Mor, when drunk they can be a handful and if you dont
follow their way, they cant be violent. You sometimes hv to put up
with their monkey behaviour.
An Indian FT woman once summed up the races body odour funnily,
when she mentioned this to me:
For Chinese, more likely - bad breath
For Inidan - body odour
For Ang Mor - a kind of cheesy smell because they pespire in out
hot climate alot and arent used to taking many showers!
I laughed when she told me, but in a way it's true.
So you see no matter what, we will stereotype, not that we are
racists, we just want to find a fare that gives us the least
hassle. But in the end, there's no way we can avoid all these type
people all the time, like that how to drive cab and earn.
But sometimes, we prioritise and decide at that moment which
ones we prepared to accept or not.
In the end, it's up to us. The best is we hv thick skin,
everything also we take, because in the end as someone put it, the
most important thing is that they pay, better a show off Indian FT
farker paying the full fare than the Govt traffic warden taking our
cash.
