This is like the stupidest post ever. Sorry to burst your little
bubble, but the Singapore culture and education system is not the
supreme way-of-life that everyone should follow, or else they are
stupid.
Or maybe you don't know what expats are. Expats don't come to
Singapore to find a new home and culture. They come here because
they had an opportunity to get paid. Most expats living in
Singapore move here because their company offered a pay raise, to
pay for their kid's education, and to pay for their housing (and
it's usually a nice house). Why would they say no?
But they're here for business. They're not interested in coming
to Singapore because they want to see how awesome you are.
Therefore, they live in an American (or wherever they came from)
community, making friends with American people. Their kids go to
American schools and make friends with American kids. When they
graduate, they're going to go back to the States and attend college
there.
It has absolutely NOTHING at all to do with the difficulty of
education, and you're an ignorant asshole if you think that it
does.
I, as a Singaporean, do not enjoy your tone. Perhaps you may had
been provoked, of which I do not deny. But do know that you
and the children of such schools exists ONLY because of universal
sufferage, of which we,.Singaporeans, have no wish to see your kind
denied of your culture and heritage. We could have enforce the
rule, since money MOTIVATES your kind to work here. But
we DID NOT. Appreciate this fact, and be thankful.
Secondly, ALWAYS, ALWAYS, remember you are, no matter how
great you presume your country to be, or how great your education
system is, (what is the yardstick anyway? Acknowledging
our education curriculam is good as your senators often
do would make our system better, but why quibble, kids are kids and
innocent anyway, good or bad, we will ultimately learn one way
or another.), AMBASSADORS of your country.
The way you put us and our citizens down is absolutely high
handed and disgusting, and i am sure many of your fellow matured
citizens would share such feelings. But i forgive you, for you are
only an immatured kid.
Being ambassadors, diplomacy is much required to foster better
understanding, espacially since you are only guests and motivated
by, to put it bluntly, greed. We Singaporeans can be accomodating,
but only if you, as a guest, does the initiation part first, to
open your palms, face it forward signifying you have nothing to
hide, with absolute openness to understand our culture as we seek
to understand yours, so that we may live side by side, as we had
done with the evidence of our multi-racial society.
Accept my post in a positive spirit, otherwise we will
needlessly never see eye to eye and instead of fostering
understanding, only unnecessary misunderstanding will
prevail.
But it is your choice. The ball is in your court now.
Cheers.