I strongly agree with the author of this comment.
I am not xenophobic and I am sure majority of Singaporeans are not as well. We are, however, against the idea of letting any and every Tom, Dick and Harry into country. And we are definitely not agreeable to the fact that some (or perhaps most) of these Toms, Dicks and Harries are granted PR (or citizenship) easily just because they are of a certain nationality.
Importing these so called foreign talents into our country incessantly is bad enough already but someone (an asinine thinks-he-knows-everything retard perhaps) decided that we need to bring their sons and daughters over as well. The more the merrier. To that end, one of our Ministry actually sent "recruitment teams" over to their country to entice these foreign sons and daughters to come study in our universities. How did they entice them? With money of course. The taxpayers' money. Our money. These foreign sons and daughters are offered scholarships which will pay the fees for their full duration of education here. On top of that, they are given monthly allowances to defray their living expenses. And the best part is, anybody can apply as long as you are an outsider.
Here we have local Singaporean students who are struggling to make ends meet everyday and there they are giving money away to bring outsiders into our country. What irony. The Ministry that is supposed to secure education opportunities for locals are giving these opportunities to outsiders instead. An even greater irony.
It is very sad. Gone are the days when Singapore was a 'fine' city. Replacing it are the new cultures of talking loudly in public, squeezing your way through crowded places just because you can, blatantly disregarding the existence of other people, spitting anywhere you like and every man for himself. The list goes on and on. Instead of becoming more metropolitan, we are actually becoming more like a pig sty.
Ask yourself my fellow Singaporeans, is there any difference between our fine nation today and before? You know very well what I mean.
You can increase the prices of everything. I can live with that. You can prolong your reign indefinitely. I can live with that. You can have dumb people in the Parliament. I can live with that. You can continue to suck a part of my income away until the day I retire. I can live with that.
But I cannot accept your grand idea of handing over my beautiful nation to outsiders on a silver platter. Where else can you find a country where 40% of its population comprises people that are not born locally? And that sort of statistics were achieved within a few years. I am sure that is absolutely normal.
While our ancestors may all have been outsiders at some point of time in the past, it doesn't deny the fact that they had altruistic intentions for this piece of rock when they came here 46 years ago. Our elevation to first world nation status within decades of independence proved that.
The people that you are inviting over nowadays? I don't think many of them have any altruistic intentions. Most are probably taking us for granted and see the 'freebies' that you provided as a stepping stone to somewhere better. Either that or they are just here to live a better life, at the expense of ours.
Oh well. At the end of the day, I am probably just another brick in the wall to you.
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