Wow. None of you are speaking properly. It's your country. All i
can offer is some views on how other people have tried to improve
things in the past.
In case you people can't understand what i write, i shall
attempt to explain briefly. I have 2 responses; 1 is a
philosophical deep explanation on what you people are trying to
achieve. The other one is an attempt at a straight answer to
get you service jobs =)
Yes I have much to learn, as we all do. And if i have much to
learn, i can only imagine how much more most people have to learn
and experience and read.
1.
You people seem to want quick fixes for anything, campaign for
smiles to make you all human, campaign for english to try and make
you speak better. Setting up a sports school to make locals better
sportsmen, setting up a new creative centre to teach locals to be
creative etc. You don't seem to understand that great states with
good people who enjoy a good life takes a long time to achieve. The
various golden ages of countries, britain, USA, Sweden etc all took
hundreds of years of thinking, fighting, protesting (and other
things deemed unthinkable to you people) to achieve.
Simply put. If you want better wages on its own, you need
freedom to form unions. If you don't have freedom, that is another
matter, which Thoreau could offer points like not participating in
government, not participating in laws/policies which you didn't
sanction in. You would be jailed for dissidence yes, but you are
expressing yourself by having bollocks and attempting for
change.
Great states you people want to emulate were built on a long
process of self-critique, feedback from people, revolutions,
questiong, talking, debate. These are things i do not see
Singaporeans getting into within the next few decades.
Simply put, if you want better economic conditions in the long
run for all, you must petition the government or be vocal, if not
you won't get improvements. If you are not being listened to, you
must act to change things in the long run. This is how countries do
it.
2. Be less choosy about your employment and you will be hired.
If you actually became a better person with empathy, diligence,
politeness and civility, you will stand out (especially in
Singapore) and you will be hired.
I have spoken to numerous singaporeans, elite and non elite
(although i think none of are elite) so called. And i have been
through all your institutions, i know you people. There is a stigma
with the service sector. This is an elitist society which frowns on
the service sector and prides itself on white collar positions.
There is streaming at a young age, siphoning of people into "made
it" and "did not make it" categories. You people actually think the
service sector is a crap job when it isn't.
And even if you think employment is not good. You should take
measures to change things. Either revolt and change the entire
political economy. Or improve yourself to stand out to satisfy the
need for good workers.
Good does not mean having lots of papers. A good worker is
someone who is a good human being. Do not wait for a government
campaign to be launched before you start being human, that goes for
all of you.
And to those that question my knowledge and ability to even
comment about you people. Know that not all foreigners are as aloof
as you people and working class eurotrash are. Know that at least
there is one foreigner who will not need a cent of that $10million
integration package (recently unvailed in the papers). Know that
there are foreigners who have served alongside you on that horrible
army island and are thus considered your moral and national
equivalents as Singaporeans in good measure. Know that at least a
few of us have donned your uniforms and marched in step with you in
uniformed units at school, know that some of us can speak to you in
singlish and malay and mandarin and yet are able to easily
intermingle among all people; foreign and local at anytime. Know
that we complain and gripe just as much as you do and we understand
that fear and apathy that lies within your breast.
Alas, most of you will never understand the diversity of all
people's abroad and here, because most of you will never see beyond
your well on your island.
