Whether fymk's representation of Australian aborigines is
twisted is subjected to individual interpretation, maybe because of
your political alliance with P4P, you choose to distinguish
Australia in a negative light, so as to elevate P4P to a higher
ground.
What transpired between hloc and me in Military Nuts, is personal,
I just wanted to piss him off. 
Why did
I choose to get personal? Because he got personal by calling me
names first, I only returned the courtesy many times over.
Anyway, there is no distinction between Speaker's Corner and
Military Nuts or any other different forums, because it is
SGFORUMS. If a topic subsist, the administrators will block out the
topic and ask that forumers continue in the existing thread.
Thereby, there is no distinction between the different forums, it
is only ONE forum with many different interest.
Are you sure that there are 4 million Singaporeans? By the term
Singaporeans, I suppose you mean CITIZENS. FYI, our current TOTAL population stands at 4.68 million.
Or are you like the government which chose to mar the line between
residents and citizens? Get your facts and figures correct and stop
making a fool of yourself.
Resident is defined as:
Residential Status
Singapore citizens and permanent residents are classified as
Singapore residents or the resident population. Singapore permanent
residents refer to non-citizens who have been granted permanent
residence in Singapore. Non-resident population are those who are
non-citizens and non-permanent residents of Singapore, such as
employment pass holders, work permit holders, student pass holders,
dependent pass holders and long-term social visit pass
holders.
Out of the total 4.68 million TOTAL population, 3.675 million are
RESIDENTS. Out of this 3.675 million RESIDENTS, it is further
broken down into PERMANENT RESIDENTS and CITIZENS. The Department
of Statistics chooses to censor information regarding the
population of CITIZENS these days, probably for fear that it will
enrage the CITIZENS due to the mass influx of cheap 3rd world
RESIDENTS.
We could only have an estimation of what the current
CITIZENS population is. In 2000, they did a census, results of the
census was RESIDENT population was 3.26 million (CITIZENS = 2.97
million & PERMANENT RESIDENT = 290,000). By the way, our growth
rate has been on the decline, due to migrations and fewer
births. Early in the year, the government talks about
increasing the population size to 6 million, which can only be
achieved by artificial means such as getting made in 3rd world
countries and stamping them with made in Singapore rubber
stamp.
The widespread effect of these 3rd world immigrants can be seen all
over. Even Macdonalds these days employ native Indonesians,
Filippinos and mainlanders. Frankly, I have nothing against these
people of other countries, because it's the fault of our government
for not controlling their immigration en masse.
Like I said in a previous post, Australia is much much bigger than
Singapore. Therefore you have to stop using small city mentality on
a big country. It's harder to regulate a big country than a puny
dot. Have you ever been to the country side in Australia? There are
vast expanses of land, if you live in those areas, there could very
well be very little passersby.
If you think our Singapore is such a caring nation, maybe you can
explain why so many Singaporeans stood by watching a lady being
stabbed in broad daylight, while all they can do is video taped the
situation and post it on their blog.
If Singapore ruled Australia, I can assure you the same issues such
as Shellay will occur and reccur. I am afraid this application of
small city in a big country environment is endemic in the no so
brilliant population, it even subsist in our NTUC Comfort. Some
years back, NTUC launch a taxi service in China, they get taxi
drivers to rent their taxis in China. The taxi drivers leased the
taxis, paid a deposit and the taxis when driven out NTUC was never
heard of again. NTUC employed the same small city mentality in a
big country, which resulted in a heavy loss. Though they have
satelite tracking on the taxis, the taxis was never recovered
because it's driven to another province, spray painted and satelite
tracking removed.
I would think that the majority of friends you have that emigrated
from Singapore are much smarter than you. Or maybe they are less
patriotic, they chose to leave a country which has failed their
aspirations, whereas, you have chose to fight for a lost cause,
albeit a little foolish. Most that chose to remain in Singapore,
might be for family reasons or like Gazelle (who was rejected by
the Australian government for immigration status, that's why he is
biased against white people), a large majority of the population
might not qualify for immigrations to other countries due to
educational status or money.
