Well, I might be wrong here, but I think underlying this whole
idea that why should they be housed in my estate, is an under
current of Xenophobia, with a twist. Because if these guys were a
bunch of expatriates, and possess a lighter shade of skin which fit
into the taxonomy of our post colonial racial hierarchal setup, and
the government wants to set up nice glittering condominiums in the
heart of Serangoon Gardens to house these learned individuals and
their families, what would people say. Yay! well and good, because
we perceive these individuals to be at the pinnacle of society and
fits into my society, so somehow their presence is encouraged. Well
done!
But now we have foreign workers, foreign workers. I'm sure just
the mere mention of that term, will incur on your vexed minds the
most undesirable of sensations. But why the dichotomy? Are we
alluding and accepting the fact that in our society, some people of
specific characteristics, are somehow better or more acceptable
than others? Are we saying that we ourselves view ourselves as
superior beings to others? What would that make us?
And we complain that we are repressed and bullied by our
government and we claim the rights as free citizens to remonstrate?
Aren't we no different from hypocrites, clasping upon the tree of
freedom, only when freedom serves us well?
Yo dude, you cannot blame us, we are living in a capitalist
demorcrazy society, class differentiation exist in such kind of
society, so what, you want communist or socialism here?? The
division of humans exist in this world since its existence, even to
the extend of animals, cute, nice kitties and dogs are alway well
treated than ugly ones, man with more wealth, good looking with
good career status are better look upon than a penniless bangala,
that is the fact of life, so, there come the lower class, middle
class and upper class. This is how our society works, like it or
not, hypocrisy or not, the rich command and control the life of the
poor, and the rich get richer and poor get poorer, for if there is
no class and no poor, how can there be rich?? I understand your
voice in term of fairness of humans, but please remember, the world
can never be fair, it revolved around the unfairness, that is how
it works. And when fairness finally exist in this world,
that will be the end of the world.
