I know a lot of Chinese in NUS... They are a huge population...
so try not to stereotype la.. some you can't even recognize them as
PRCs as they are so much like us already!
As for those forum comments, I bet some of them were just
striking back on Singaporeans who kept despising, criticizing,
discriminating them. We have nvr stopped doing that! From what I
know, some (or most?) PRCs are really happy when I said I could not
recognize them as PRC. What does this show? To risk generalization,
I would say this means they actually exhibited sense of inferiority
and scared of being discriminated against as PRC! How sad it is...
Just to put yourself in their shoes la, being ashamed of where your
origin/nationality is. Some of them who din manage to hide their
identities (not everybody is a genius who can take up new culture
and languages easily) might attempt to protect themselves, and
there comes "ego" and "arrogance". They wanna be proud of
being PRCs, and are struggling to do so!
I truly hope everyone could just show some empathy... It's never
easy to start out a life in the foreign land. Our ancestors did
that, struggling, and now look at the Malaysian Chinese, they too
are still fighting for their rights. Please acknowledge that these
foreigners are equal to us, not anyhow inferior, though different
in terms of culture and languages. If we show acceptance, I bet
there won't be such extreme emotions on both parties. They would be
more than willing to accept our culture!
You're absolutely right.
Stop pointing the finger at others. We should just get
along.
