Yep, migration is always beneficial to countries...it doesn't
even have to be properly controlled, let's just throw open our
gates to anyone who wants to come in! Never mind if some of them
are no-talent layabouts who can't contribute to our already
strained economy (but who will still draw upon that economy's
resources), I'm sure it'll be okay.
No, I'm sure that when we ask foreigners to breed with us, we won't
be sending out signals about how Singaporeans are just receptacles
for foreigners' bodily discharges. I'm sure that won't exacerbate
the existing situation, where a large sector of our population is
already perceived as a pool of readily gotten sexual conquests for
foreign white men.
I'm sure that won't reinforce the rampant racial stereotyping of
Asians that has already been commented on in David Henry Hwang's 'M
Butterfly', just to name one example.
All we need is for them (aiyah, never mind if they're socially
responsible or not) to impregnate a few local women in shotgun
marriages or, at the very most, just leave behind a litter of
illegitimate children. After all, it's a numbers game, people!
That's all that counts - the long term stability of our family
units is really less important than it's often made out to
be.
I, for one, will be proud to don my army uniform and lay down my
life for these new fellow citizens of mine, these European /
American society rejects, these hormonally crazed people who I am
sure respect all races and do not in any way express the belief
that they are superior in any way to the non-caucasians in
Singapore, these gentle folk who never engage in hooligan-ish
behaviour, who never harass Singaporean women by throwing bread at
them in Italian restaurants. These great, noble people who I shall
have the great privilege of sacrificing my life for, even though
they haven't had to do NS.
Of course, this new policy means that there won't be any more
Chinese, Malay or Indian people left in Singapore...since we're all
supposed to interbreed with foreigners (and yeah, I'm sure only
Caucasian foreigners are included in this plan), Singapore will be
a country of nothing but Eurasians eventually. Never mind, no
sacrifice is too great in the name of commercial
sustainability!
Sometimes I have really naughty, unworthy thoughts...like maybe how
declining birth rates in Singapore are due to a whole range of
different factors, and how maybe the problem could be solved with
radical reforms, like making our employment sectors more family
friendly (through for example legislating for maternity and
paternity leave, restructuring and really changing mindsets to
allow more part time or contract work).
Sometimes I even think that big problems could be solved if
Singapore allowed for more personal and political liberty, thus
stopping the steady outflow of large numbers of our best and
brightest that migrate to liberal countries like the U.S. and
Canada every year due to their disgust with the state of affairs in
their own home country.
I am ashamed to admit that sometimes I think these are better
solutions to the problem, rather than some really blunt and
primitive strategy of just marrying off our sons and daughters to
foreigners in order to gain a practical advantage, just like they
used to do in tribal societies and tribal politics, before we
became more civilised. But no, I'm sure I'm wrong here.
On a completely unrelated topic, the weather in Perth is really
nice this time of the year, wouldn't you agree?
