A 34 year old Sg migrant gives his perspective after 8 years
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one thing that pisses me off : whenever some caucasian kid asks if i know karate just because i told him im chinese
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Tell him, did your father shoot foxes and left you for good just because you're a damned redneck?Originally posted by vito_corleone:one thing that pisses me off : whenever some caucasian kid asks if i know karate just because i told him im chinese -
please refrain from using 'making any stupid comments'. whatever MITA said aside are you saying that in australia and US for that matter, nobody practices racism? we know it is not true. racism is everywhere. the fact that you did not encounter any does not mean it dont exist. your experience in certain geographical areas dont tell you everything about the whole country.Originally posted by vito_corleone:IMO singapore is the most racist..for example, even if you're born and bred here all your life but if you have white skin you're called an "ang moh", an outsider. in the states never once have i been called a chink or yellow belly, nor did they regard me as a foreign intruder into their country, i was treated just like any other american..same thing in australia..
so stop listening to the MITA's bullcrap and go travel more to experience things yourself before making any stupid comments. -
my friends got yelled at, chased at, thrown food at while in europe.
over here, the most we do is overcharge them, or maybe even try to bed them. but we surely don't attack them. -
LOL, cosmopolitan!
Singapore as a whole cannot be described as cosmopolitan, perhaps only a small section of the society can be classified as that. Look at the environment and situation. Maybe we are working through a different definition of what cosmopolitan is.
Getting a citizenship or residency elsewhere is not a bad thing. THere is no such well maybe in the places i have been to as 2nd class citizenship. What is that? Which class you percieve yourself as being in is a result of your own insecurities.
Nothing against Singapore, but what are the reasons for choosing to migrate? Economic? Political? Health? It varies but often there will have to be a factor that results in that decision.
Just out of interest, what is the current climate in singapore like? Am interested to understand if there have been changes happening through the singaporean society in the past 2 years? Friends have told me that there is a movement towards a less conformist society, are there any comments to that?
There will be issues such as the political expression and so forth but thats another topic, though they are related.
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IMHO....
At the end of the day, it is the pull and push factors that you ahve to look at when considering moving on to another countries. This will includes the personal considerations (career,preference of political system, lifestyle, family, friends, in-laws etc etc), and the external considerations (type of govt,housing, govt policy).
Of course some of the considerations can be the over whelming factors in deciding the choice to move. I noe of ppl moving/not moving becos of family / parents.
Currently, I am working overseas as well... and from a personal persepctive, my roots are in SGP. I grow up in SGP.. friends/family/social circle are all in SGP and this is what i go back to when I am back in SGP.
One thing to note... the issue of migrating has reduce significantly over the last 2 decades from my point of view... with the improvement in air travel, the invention of WWW (bless Skype and webcams)... the distance / fear of up rooting to another place is not tat daunting anymore.