In a sign that social tensions are rising in Singapore due to
the PAP’s unthinking and indiscriminate mass-immigration policies,
the proportion of neighbour disputes handled by the Community
Mediation Centre (CMC) hit a record high last year.
One of the ‘interesting’ complaints was lodged by a PRC family
against their Singaporean Indian neighbors for cooking curry too
frequently.
Though the considerate Indian family, who were mindful of their
neighbour’s aversion, had already taken to closing their doors and
windows whenever they cooked the dish, but this was not enough.
“They said: ‘Can you please do something? Can you don’t
cook curry? Can you don’t eat curry?’,” said Madam Marcellina Giam, a
Community Mediation Centre mediator. But the Indian family
stood firm.
In the end, Mdm Giam got the Indian
family to agree to cook curry only when the Chinese family was not
home. In return, they wanted their Chinese neighbours
to at least give their dish a try.
Such conflicts between native Singaporean Chinese and Indians
are almost unheard of in the past as they have been living together
for the past hundred years or so and are used to the cuisines of
each other.
However to the newcomers from the poorer inland provinces of
China, the smell of curry must come as a culture-shock to them.
The number of mainland Chinese living in Singapore has reached
almost one million people according to UnionPay, a credit card
company.
The media is full of reports of PRC cleaners, hawkers,
construction workers, clerks, teachers, masseurs and even
prostitutes being given Singapore PR and citizenship by the PAP.
One of them, a 28 year old teacher Zhang Yuanyuan obtained her
Singapore PR within TWO MONTHS of application.
In an interview with National Geographic magazine in December
2009, PAP supreme Lee Kuan Yew proclaimed that it is a good thing
that Singapore is welcoming so many Chinese immigrants from
mainland China as they are ‘harder-driving’ and ‘harder-striving’
than Singaporeans.
With the PRC immigrants flooding into the HDB heartlands and
forming ethnic enclaves in certain estates like Kallang and
Sengkang, such conflicts with native Singaporeans are likely to
rise in the near future.
