The Changing Face of Singaporean
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Sometimes, it’s not just in the malls, hawker centres or public transport. You stay at home and watch local TV and you will end up having the same feeling. Just watch the recent National Science Challenge series on Tue and you would have seen some schools sending in an ENTIRE team of FT. I just felt strange because the FT are 2 years older than our kids and therefore not competing on the same level.
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a bit :offtopic: .
as you know it is pretty common to have a foreigner at the end of the other line when you call or receive calls from companies here in singapore.
well, i called a local no recently to get some help to fix my printer. a foreigner picked up the call and not suspecting anything, we went blah blah blah and i gave him my warranty card details.........and suddenly, he said \"oh i see you are calling from singapore.\" and i was :whut: . turned out the my call was transferred to another asian country (though there is a service centre in singapore) and luckily no need to pay for the call.............but am going to check my bill and should there be a charge, gonna kill someone. -
http://www.theglobalist.com/storyid.aspx?StoryId=8321
Interesting article, relevant to SG... -
always feel we are in the minority, guess we are not 'loud' enough to be
heard and seen :oops: -
Recently, I got quite lost in Orchard Road cos I have not been taking the MRT for a long time so I did not know where somerset staion was. I looked around for someone local but did not know who to approach as no one looked local. So I just tried my luck and asked a foreigner who actually gave me the correct direction :oops:!
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Ya, agree. Can't help feeling we r the minority here..very diff to find a local around. There r so many ft in my neighbourhood..I always feel comfortable and relief to see a true blue Singaporean ard.
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carebear:
Recently, I got quite lost in Orchard Road cos I have not been taking the MRT for a long time so I did not know where somerset staion was. I looked around for someone local but did not know who to approach as no one looked local. So I just tried my luck and asked a foreigner who actually gave me the correct direction :oops:!
thanks. i need a good laugh..........
:rotflmao:
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I wonder if the younger generation feel it too. I guess not. My son has a classmate from China. I don’t think he cares about if his classmates are "local" or not. Just knows that he has fun playing with him. That’s the important thing for integration. Acceptance from both sides. In future, when my son does National Service, his platoon mates will be full of 2nd generation "non-locals". But then again, not sure what will happen by then…
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JR:
I wonder if the younger generation feel it too. I guess not. My son has a classmate from China. I don't think he cares about if his classmates are \"local\" or not. Just knows that he has fun playing with him. That's the important thing for integration. Acceptance from both sides. In future, when my son does National Service, his platoon mates will be full of 2nd generation \"non-locals\". But then again, not sure what will happen by then...
JR, this reminds me of something. As a kid, I remember conversations my parents had that went,\"He's not local\", and I would ask,\"How can you tell?\" He would reply, \"You just know it.\" He also mentioned \"Accent\". Now, I understand what that means.
As children, they haven't really seen and experienced enough to tell the difference. To the innocent minds, everyone is equal, until the adults start pointing out, and unless it is something obvious like skin color. Some kids, for instance, can't tell the difference between Malays and Indians, and some think all chinese faces look alike.
Now, our children are growing up in a phase like we did during the earlier days when our parents would threaten us with racist remarks like\"Bayi will come catch you if you are naughty\". This time, will it be \"If you don't work harder, the FTs will win your place in school?\"
If only there is no sense of threat, can the children and people integrate more naturally..Unfortunately, the FTs are brought in for reasons that make these threats real. -
DS2 is a minority in his PCF nursery class! Only 3/16 of the kids is Chinese (local or otherwise), a quarter is Malay & the rest is Indian (mainly FT).
When DS1 was a toddler 6yrs ago, we usually saw some local parents & many maids bringing bringing kids to the playground. But the landscape changed esp after the flats reached 5yo & the local moved away. These days locals r out-numbered by FTs at playground anytime. 5-7pm Chinese FT; afterwards Indian FT. Don’t see many maids these days too.
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