Do you think that a Singaporean will want to take on the
labourious kind of jobs? And btw, I won't call them FT's...
just foreign labour. There's a HUGE world of difference
between an FT and foreign labour.
No Singaporean will encourage their children to become road
sweepers or garbage disposal drivers, or construction workers
etc. Thank goodness for the Bangladeshi, PRC and Thai
labourers who are in Singapore to keep Singapore clean, green, and
thriving.
I use the word FT interchangeably, cos the goverment seems to
use it interchangeably too .... of course, there's a world of
difference between the two ....
once upon a time, we'd have thai workers to build our homes, and
banglas to sweep our streets, we still do, but compare the social
impact these two groups have on our society ... other than a few
drunken fights at golden mile, and a few molest cases from the
banglas, the impact on our society is minimal ...
on the other hand ... when we start importing other countries'
"peasants", we are radically altering our social landscape .... in
much bigger countries like oz, canada, the US etc, they have a
heartland belt which serves as repositories of their society's
cultures and values .... the bush in oz, the prairies in canada,
the midwest in the US ..... in Singapore, the newcomers go straight
into the heartlands .... bringing with them values not always
compatible with ours ....
as for "FTs" .... it's as what I've written in the post about
our birth incentives ...
