It's becoming really depressing. I got mistaken to be from china
daily 3 days in a row (and I'm not even mentioning all the other
instances when stupid cashiers repeat their questions in chinese
because they think I won't be able to understand them!). It gets
worst, because their approaches get more and more unimaginable each
time. Once it was an indian man, who asked me straight in the face
one night on the streets, "From China ah?" This was tolerable,
because after shouting at him, "Where are YOU from? Bangladesh?",
at least he apologized, and we ended up dissing the government's
rotten FT policy together. But the next one was blood boiling. I
was sitting at the back row of a bus, and then this plump broad
walked up, and before shamelessly stuffing herself past me into the
window seat, she gave me a look of disgust! I don't think I was so
improperly dressed to deserve that loh, it was just a V neck tee
and jeans and canvas shoes! So judging from past experiences she
must have thought I am one of those china construction workers! And
even more exasperating is that I tell you even though this broad is
young, she is the type of girls I would never be interested in my
JC days! Then the next one gets even more dramatic. I was walking
in town. Then this 40+year old ugly bastard, came up to me from my
side, showed me his blueberry, and asked me in a stupid
angmo-acting china accent "shien sheng, ni ke bu ke yi pang wo du
zhe ge? (in chinese - mister, can you help me read this sms?)" I
asked him what, you think I'm from china ah!? And then he still
dared to be arrogant and said you chinese what and gave me that
"the question is only whether you can help me read otherwise nvm"
attitude! Like as though he's NOT chinese, like as though he's some
kind of high class singaporean chinese who is NOT supposed to be
bilingual! wtf!
It's like I don't even dare to step out nowadays! Anybody here
has got the same experience before, please do share. Please
understand that this is really distressing. I feel like migrating,
but not everyone has the means. I can't say the fault lies with
these people. But a portion of singaporean population is really
getting rottenly ignorant, immoral and inhumane. Chinese is just
chinese. Some of us have darker skin and sharper features, but
these things alone do not work to identify
our nationality because we are
all chinese. Then what, so I have to buy expensive
stuffs to distinguish myself? I'm wearing levi's jeans you know.
Must it be armani, then they can be satisfied? Or do I need to hire
an image consultant, and ask him how do i look
singaporean, when I have already paid 2.5 years and counting?
You think the real chinaman can't dress up
himself? You think the real PRC hooker
can't learn the singaporean accent and the ley loh lahs? By
discriminating chinese through appearances you are only giving PRCs
a chance to hide and blend into our society! At the end, you will
be the one to suffer!
Some people may think this is funny. But its not. How can it be
supposed to be like this? If we migrate to Australia, they will say
we are 2nd class citizens spurging on them. If we migrate to
taiwan, our written chinese is not good enough. And need I mention
US and UK? This has got to stop. Dear all, you can do something
about it. I was never that special since young, so I dont think I
would be now. If you have had similar experiences please share
them. And please spread the word around that it is not only wrong
but also stupid to discriminate amongst your own race/country
people like this. If they have anything against the chinaman bus
drivers china prostitutes, they should take it up to the
government, not any chinese, like themselves, they see on the
streets!
If you are one of the
prepetrators of this abominable phenomenom, please understand that
what goes around comes around, and however much you think you are,
you are not white, you are yellow. I don't care if you depended
your life on feeling superior, you can feel it however much you
want, but you are not supposed to show it! You can be liable for
private harassment, and potentially criminal harassment! I just
want to walk on the streets without being harassed, is that
wrong?
The country is becoming more
and more intolerable by the hour. I'm sure many of you feel the
same way. Regardless of whether you are in your teens, in your 20s,
in your 30s, 40s and on, do you want to waste your life
distinguishing yourself as a singaporean? All of these can be
changed if you would just vote the PAP out in 2016! If they were
to try any gimmicks prior to the elections (like shortening the
qualification time for foreigners to become PRs, or
baiting/threatening you with hdb upgrading, free money) please do
not fall for it again! Think of the long run I beg of you. There is
no sense in this. Yes, they are pushing the GDP up but the problem
is population is rising even faster, so we can only have lower GDP
per capita! Furthermore, being discriminated as a chinese, just
because you look more chinese, is not the only social issue that
has arisen from the foreign influx. Think about the PRC bus driver
strike. Think about all the noise they make, and their
incomprehensible refusal to stop. Think about the lack of space in
the library, in the cinema, on the streets forcing you to enclose
yourself in that small hdb unit, and thus increasing neighbor
conflicts.
Please Singapore. What happened to one people one nation one
Singapore? What happened to one united people regardless of race
language or religion? To build a democratic society based
on justice and equality? To
achieve, happiness, prosperity, and progress for our
nation? are you happy now? Are you
even prosperous? Do you even dare dream
of progress?
