It is a common complaint nowadays among Singaporeans that they
feel like strangers in their own country abroad a bus or MRT train,
being overwhelmed by the presence of foreigners.
In a short letter to the Straits Times Forum yesterday, Mr Loh
Ngin Seng described his experience on a bus journey:
“In a bus I recently took from Rochor to Sembawang at
8pm, I felt like a stranger in my own country, so overwhelmed was I
by the numerical superiority of foreigners.”
Mr Loh’s unpleasant experience is apparently shared by many
Singaporeans as well.
Shannon Yu wrote on TR’s Facebook:
“Oh it’s not THAT bad. My carriage yesterday looked like
4 natives for every 5 passengers. The crowd, however, was an
entirely different matter.”
Russell Teo added:
“You try 169 from Woodlands Int to Admiralty
West.”
Elliot Chong mused:
“Sometimes NEL feels like subway from
India.”
Due to the PAP’s ultra pro-foreigner and liberal immigration
policies, foreigners now make up 36 percent of Singapore’s
population, up from 14 percent in 1990. Of the remaining 64 percent
who are citizens, an increasing number are born overseas.
The PAP ministers and MPs will be unable to understand the
plight of ordinary Singaporeans as most, if not all them drive and
hardly use public transport. (except for the purpose of public
‘wayang’ from time to time).
The next election may be the last opportunity for native
Singaporeans to reclaim ownership of Singapore after which they
will surely be relegated to being second class minorities in their
land of birth, controlled, dominated and squeezed dry by the
self-serving PAP and its new pets.
Singaporeans are so unfriendly and outdated and anti-social ones
... I always thought Singaporeans are adventurous and keen to meet
and befriend people from other countries because they were bred and
brought up in an open and multi-cultural environment.
If Singaporeans were keen to go overseas for holidays and able
to pretend to be superbly friendly and warm, why do we not see that
same warm and friendly attitude and behaviour from these
Singaporeans towards foreigners when they were back home
in Singapore?
Truly it must be our bad culture or ugly tradition to put up a
false pretense to be classy and sophisticated when we're meeting
new people and foreigners overseas.
Is this the end-product of westernising our traditional
mindset that we have all grown up to become a race of fakers and
low-class "drama actress/actors"?
What is so different about the foreigners compared to
Singaporeans anyway? As a Singaporean, I can say that Singaporeans
aren't as united amongst ourselves as compared to people from other
nations, regardless if they are first-world or third-world
citizens. Singaporeans have a very low and poorish mindsets in
terms of projecting themselves towards people in the World, and
there are heaps and plenty which Singaporeans could learn from
these foreigners or other people in the World.
There are always bad, half-crazy, evil, nasty citizens
regardless of which nations they represented. People have a choice
to become who they want to become, regardless of being true or
false towards themselves.
Why don't we adopt a more positive approach towards our opinions
with regards to the foreigners?
Instead of saving up money to go overseas and meet them, the
Government is encouraging these people to come to visit us. I can
see that there is a purpose for the Government to do that, because
I think this is an important step for the Government to train and
toughen up and expose common and uncommon Singaporeans alike
to learn how to handle and deal and communicate and blend with
the ugliest exports from nations around the World.
Why are Singaporeans so weak in their mindset and they only
want to mix with the high and influential and classy people from
nations around the World? We should learn how to cope with this
surprising uncertaincies that the Government have brought upon us.
It is a common norm that people from other countries and nations DO
NOT HAVE THE ABILITIES to socialise well with people who aren't
from their countries and nations. Singaporeans have this golden
opportunity to be the FIRST to make that change and to PIONEER this
mindset and extend it towards people from other nations.
I'm sure this is good for Singaporeans who are aspiring to be a
Global Entrepreneur!
Think Positive, Singaporeans! Your life is really how you think
and imagined it to be. If you had thought lowly of your life, then
surely you would have lived a lowly life. If you had thought
well of your life, then surely you would have lived a happy
life. If you had complete confidence of your life, then surely your
life would be filled with unlimited possibilities.
It's really how you think that matters and is
important in your life, not how other people have perceived it
to be and certainly not how other people have defined it
to be! 
