You are quite an uninformed individual.
I know you dislike me quoting external sources to
substantiate my views, but anyway have to lah, else I would be
building my castle on air.
"You know, the cure for all this talk is really a good dose
of incompetent government. You get that alternative and you'll
never put Singapore together again: Humpty Dumpty cannot be put
together again... and
your asset values will disappear, your apartment will be worth a
fraction of what it is, your jobs will be in peril, your security
will be at risk and our women will become maids in other people's
countries, foreign workers." - Justifying million-dollar pay
hike for Singapore ministers (Straits Times, 5 April 2007)
Source: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lee_Kuan_Yew
That old man never will stop having his nose in the air, will
he? He thinks he's some sort of God or something.
And to think that he laments over the degradation of
graciousness- wait, can it even be called a degradation of our
society-culture when 'graciousness' was never there in the first
place?
I remember a snippet of his
speech on the radio about a month ago about him linking
financial progress to graciousness (or a lack thereof) in our
society. Apparently he ISN'T ignorant about the fact that
Singaporeans are generally a bunch of selfish, kiasu, arrogant and
ill-mannered people who pride themselves on their financial success
and silver-spooned births.
My take is that the apple does not fall far from the tree. I am
a Singaporean- always was and always will be, but I am ashamed to
say that I, too, am the selfish, kiasu, arrogant, money minded
Singaporean that I despise.
If not on a large scale, perhaps a little. There is a thick
streak of that behaviour in me, and honestly, I can't blame myself
because I was brought up in a society where everyone was like that
for a good 15 years. I have sinced moved to Malaysia, and honestly,
the level of humility between these two countries is STARTLING.
I actually had to learn humility, which was never taught in
Singapore schools. Instead, they just taught us to keep aiming
higher "or else you cannot survive".
What kind of SOCIETY is the Singapore government nurturing?
I pity the future generation. They're going to be much worse off
than us.
The only way is to see PAP being brought down and a more humble
party lead us.
