Foreign talent? No--Oo!
Ignore the date. It's Sunday, August 27.
Disaster! The government is now getting up to all kinds of hijinks to persuade us to believe that foreign talent is good for us. Apparently, we're needing these folks 'cos the local mummies and daddies just aren't multiplying fast enough, so we don't have enough workers (who can do the work the government wants), so we've got to import them.
Besides the national day rallies, this "foreigners for the good of the nation" message has also been hitting the headlines. Over the past few days, the newspapers have been carrying articles on how many (successful) foreigners have opted to take the Singaporean "Red passport", and also on the number of foreigners who have made it in The Land of the Merlion. Even today: IMMIGRANT MADE GOOD: Born in China, now an SAF scholar from the Sunday Times. Oh and yes, yesterday: in the Saturday section of our Straits Times paper (also responsible for the Sunday times), there was this huge spread on the "immigrant debate" telling us just how good these foreigners will be for us, yes, they will be patriotic and luv Singapore; yes, they will do this country a service. And yes, all the local people who shun foreigners are DUMB.
I should wonder if they don't think that we are stupid. They're mired way up in their ivory towers and forgetting just how many of us Singaporeans don't have jobs, are worrying about whether or not we will have jobs and failing at school. I can vouch for the last one at least. MY school (and every other school in this nation) is offering scholarships to Chinese (China) students, the teachers disappear for like two, three weeks every year to go scouting for little geniuses in order to push up the overall O'level grades instead of teaching us.
Shoot. Digressed there.
But what I feel is that the government is taking us for fools. They feel that they can foist whatever nonsense they want on us and still get away with it. While they tell us that foreign talent is good and that we must accept them, they also tell us that "Singapore is your HOME," and so if we're earning big money, take it HERE.
But we're not going to listen to that crap, now are we?
Disaster! The government is now getting up to all kinds of hijinks to persuade us to believe that foreign talent is good for us. Apparently, we're needing these folks 'cos the local mummies and daddies just aren't multiplying fast enough, so we don't have enough workers (who can do the work the government wants), so we've got to import them.
Besides the national day rallies, this "foreigners for the good of the nation" message has also been hitting the headlines. Over the past few days, the newspapers have been carrying articles on how many (successful) foreigners have opted to take the Singaporean "Red passport", and also on the number of foreigners who have made it in The Land of the Merlion. Even today: IMMIGRANT MADE GOOD: Born in China, now an SAF scholar from the Sunday Times. Oh and yes, yesterday: in the Saturday section of our Straits Times paper (also responsible for the Sunday times), there was this huge spread on the "immigrant debate" telling us just how good these foreigners will be for us, yes, they will be patriotic and luv Singapore; yes, they will do this country a service. And yes, all the local people who shun foreigners are DUMB.
I should wonder if they don't think that we are stupid. They're mired way up in their ivory towers and forgetting just how many of us Singaporeans don't have jobs, are worrying about whether or not we will have jobs and failing at school. I can vouch for the last one at least. MY school (and every other school in this nation) is offering scholarships to Chinese (China) students, the teachers disappear for like two, three weeks every year to go scouting for little geniuses in order to push up the overall O'level grades instead of teaching us.
Shoot. Digressed there.
But what I feel is that the government is taking us for fools. They feel that they can foist whatever nonsense they want on us and still get away with it. While they tell us that foreign talent is good and that we must accept them, they also tell us that "Singapore is your HOME," and so if we're earning big money, take it HERE.
But we're not going to listen to that crap, now are we?
posted by fairypenguin at 7:13 PM
1 Comments:
I like your blog. Quite frankly, it reminds me of mine. Only yours as more intellectual matter and is far more educational. I am jealous.
much love, julie
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