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Stomp contributor howcanlikethis was disturbed to see obscenities
and xenophobic graffiti in Nanyang Technological University
(NTU).
In an email to Stomp, the reader said:
"Someone posted this up in a rumour mongering group on Facebook for
NTU.
"Is this how undergrads from a respectable university are supposed
to behave?
"Look at all the foul words and xenophobic messages.
"Please stop destroying the reputation of our own school."
This is not the first case of resentment against foreign students
surfacing in Singapore universities.
In another Stomp posting, another Stomp reader, Cyber policeman,
came across undergraduates hurling expletives and vulgarities at
each other online in an argument about foreign students receiving
more benefits here.
He emailed Stomp:
"Someone sent me a link to the website given and when I visited the
website I was extremely shocked to read the debates and arguments
between some of our brightest students in the local
universities.
"Some of them claimed to have four As and two S papers.
"They were arguing about the privileges and opportunities of local
and foreign students in NUS and NTU. The local students resented
the overabundance of foreign students and the extra privileges
given to them.
"But what irks me is the type of language and insults they hurled
at one another.
"They called each other "morons" and the four letter word was used
without any qualms at all.
"If this is a cross section of our future graduates then we have
much cause to worry. Why are our undergrads so foul-mouthed and
uncouth?
"I am simply stunned."
Err... is this racist?