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.
I see Kuali Baba already replied to your post, so maybe this
post isn't necessary. However, I would like to say a few
things.
I'm not saying how awesome the US is and how lame Singapore is.
You know, I'm only American by my accent, education, and
birthplace/passport. My mom is actually Chinese, and my dad is
Taiwanese (they both learned English and immigrated to the US for
college). Basically, I'm a Chinese person who can speak English and
Chinese (except not reading/writing). Not very different from
Singaporeans, right?
Singaporean culture is not wrong, bad, or stupid. I never said
any of those things. If you read my post, I was merely stating the
fact that expats do not come to Singapore to find a new culture and
embrace it; therefore, their kids do not enter the local education
system.
And as Kuali mentioned, you should read the post that I was
replying to.
