I live here in Singapore for the past 10 years. As you, i have
also wondered why so much indians gather there on weekends. I don't
know the answer until few months back. Though, i am Indian, we are
creamy (call ourselves) layers who does white collar job and would
hardly go to Little india except to buy our grocieries. But, the
people who gathers there are blue collar workers, Supporting my
friends business, i had a chance with them to interact and most of
them live in the dormotories in Tuas, Jurong. Most of the week,
they eat their self prepared food (though, it will be horrible,
they have no choice), during weekends, they can spend few dollars
on so called good food from little indian restaurants and most
importantly coming there to interact with their own villagers who
work here. The reason for gather is to pass on information back to
village friends, family , to send electronics good and to gather
information about the happening in their and neighbouring villages
back in India.
Though, it may seems to be a gathering, if you notice, there
will be small pockets of people, most of them are from same
villages and neighboring villages.
It is true that it can be irritating when you want to glide
through their staring eye (if you are with your wife or girl
friend), but, we have no choice unless avoid weekend evenings. This
is not the case in India, but, here it is different, because too
many singles at a same time.
I apologise to u on behalf of racist singaporeans. I assume that
u are also from India? U see, here in Singapore, most mountain
tortoise have never left this small dot and always think narrow
minded, when they see construction workers gather around in little
India, they auto think all indians are like that.
Some post racist remarks to stir trouble. But our govt is not
tolerant of these things
i know those porr indian workers are really pitiful working in
the hot sun to send money back home, Most of them actually eat @
Hindu temples on weekends and they really miss their family at
home.
They only find company among themselves as there is no other way
they could mix with locals because of cultural differences. Even so
, they do not mix with Sgporean indians too . I am not
surprised that even sgporean indian shun them