What evidence, Salman?
You are sprouting nonsense and purely personal opinions
again.
You want evidence, let me help again.
Onlookers, pls look at Salman's thick skinned replies
here:
http://www.sgforums.com/?action=thread_display&thread_id=166963
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We aren't whiners
Surprise, surprise: Poll shows S'poreans least irritable in
Asia
Wednesday • December 28, 2005
Serene Chua
[email protected]
ACCORDING to a recent Reader's Digest poll, Singaporeans are not
easily riled.
The magazine surveyed 3,600 people across Asia, with respondents in
Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, China, Taiwan, Hong
Kong, Indonesia and South Korea asked to rate 20 annoyances such as
bad drivers and queue jumpers on a scale ranging from "extremely
irritating" to "not irritating at all".
The survey results showed that Singaporeans get most irritated by,
in descending order: Spitting in public, queue jumpers, bad drivers
and poor personal hygiene. The survey also found that Singaporeans
were the most tolerant and Thais the most irritable.
Several Singaporeans that Today spoke to found the results
bewildering. Ms Jody Lim, a 29-year-old marketing assistant, said:
"It's a bit bizarre. I was always sure we were an island of
complainers."
Associate Professor Tan Ern Ser, from the National University of
Singapore's Department of Sociology, suggested a possible
explanation: "Internally, we tend to think of Singaporeans as
easily annoyed. But in relative terms we may not be so bad. We tend
to judge ourselves more harshly than we judge other people.
"For example, we wouldn't know if the Koreans or the Chinese are
intolerant (in their own countries). We are confronted with
Singaporeans all the time so we tend to think that Singaporeans are
the worst kind. But when we compare ourselves across countries, we
may be quite all right."
Another associate professor from the same department, Ms Paulin
Straughan, suggested the response may be due to the possibility
that Singaporeans face fewer irritations.
She said: "We have campaigns educating the public on social graces,
such as the Keep Singapore Clean campaign. It may well be that
these campaigns have worked."
For respondent Jonathan Siow, many questions simply did not apply
to Singapore.
"The survey just asked the wrong questions. Public spitting doesn't
irritate me because I don't see it," the 24-year-old student
said.
"Ask how irritated I get when I meet the lift-user who lets the
lift door shut in my face even as I wave my arms like a drowning
rat. This must have happened five times this month. Ask me how
irritated I get when Chinese New Year songs start playing
everywhere next month."
But perhaps the last word should go to the Singaporean who, when
asked to name an irritation, said that what was really irritating
was filling out survey forms.
http://www.todayonline.com/articles/92351print.asp
