Reply to “smickno”: (click here to read his article)
There are thousands of people in Singapore and overseas who are many more times sick of people like you “smickno” which should be read as “sicko”. It is people like you who forget the sacrifices of Singaporeans and their forefathers who built Singapore what is today. Some Singaporean, in the prime of the lives, has made the ultimate sacrifice. Their mothers have cried themselves dry. These “FTs” far from making any sacrifice, are here to free-load with the full-support of our government and sickening and ungrateful people like you.
You will never be contented until you chase all true-blooded Singaporeans and their families out, and welcome with the lowest-quality “FTs” trash with open arms for reasons, I suspect, is beneficial to your interests. In times of turmoil, please call upon these “FTs” to protect you and your family, if they have not completely disappeared.
It is ungrateful and arrogant people like you who should leave Singapore immediately, because you are the ones who will flood Singapore with foreign trash and destroy Singapore on day soon.
You cannot be a person who cares about Singaporeans and Singapore. So I can only ask: “Whose interests are you protecting and promoting?”
To all Singaporeans who care and love Singapore, please make sure you vote for a government who will bring back our soul, our sense of belonging, our right as first class Singapore citizens; for ourselves and our future generations.
No nation can survive for long if her citizens have lost their sense belonging; if their soul and heart is not with the country; if there are shameless traitors like “smickno”.
MySingapore
My dearest Fellow Singaporean “My Singapore”,
While I understand the fury most Singaporeans have at the crazy amount of foreigners coming into Singapore now, and stressing the systems out, I’m afraid some of your accusations and insults are rather uncalled for. As a HK-born, naturalised citizen, you would probably insult me too, but I beg for a chance to speak for myself, my family, and the people who have come like me.
Singapore was built by migrants. Your forefathers came seeking the same opportunities the current “Foreign workers” are seeking. They don’t get to freeload either – just because they’re foreigners doesn’t meant they don’t have to pay tax, or GST, or rent, or food. They too play an important part in keeping our economy running. Sure, they’re not always very “well-behaved”, but if you really look carefully, sometimes those people raising their voices on the buses aren’t foreigners, they’re Singaporeans. Just listen to the accent, it’s uniquely Singaporean.
I was once a foreigner, but now love Singapore with most of my heart (I can understand why you might not love the land your forefathers came from, they’ve either changed, or you have no idea what they are). Just because a part of me still belongs to my homeland doesn’t mean that I do not wholeheartedly want to help Singapore succeed. In fact, in secondary school, out of all of my pure-bred Singaporean classmates, I scored highest for our National Education Quiz, because I love Singapore and its history, and I care enough to remember it.
Just because we were born elsewhere doesn’t mean our hearts won’t take root here. I can’t imagine living the rest of my life anywhere else, and there’s nothing like the sense of pride I get when I see Singapore’s name in an international publication or in a big movie.
Voting will be my honour. But my focus will not just be on bringing in the PAP government. My focus would be to bring in a government that works for the interests of the people, made up of good, honourable, honest people. The PAP is NOT the government, they’re just a party working for seats in that government. I will vote for them if they have the interests of this wonderful country and its people at heart, but I will not if that’s not what they’re after.
No point getting angry at foreign talent, they’re idea is not to drive you out but to coexist with you peacefully. So coexist. It’ll take us back to the days when our forefathers worked together and coexisted (before those racial riots that is.:D)
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Hi Singaporean by Heart, I did not read this letter which you were responding, and find it somewhat emotional in some of the parts I glanced at. But as a naturalized citizen, I guess you are aware of the issues that still stand at hand. The current government has not answered to its citizens(born or naturalized) about the ills left behind by the policies of the last 5 to 10 years, including the ever rising costs of living which actually even beat those of Canada’s(I speak for this aspect especially have lived there for about 4 years), the immense liberty with which foreigners have been brought into the country as a form of visible competition, sometimes even to the effect that some actually bluff and cheat about their background, and also, the lack of political diversity in our society which makes for stagnation. You have been educated and naturalized here, and whatever your origins, you are Singaporean by virtue of your attachment to this place in wanting a better future for it. However, you are probably aware too that there is an increasing population of those who are also in it here for the benefits of being here, such as the workers from abroad who come in on passes and then earn lots of money and then leave without even caring much for the impact it leaves. That(the drifter migrant) is probably the cause for concern more than new citizens per se.
I am from Israel and I think that Singapore is a wonderful place. From what I observed, all Singaporeans live in nice homes and it is really a paradise. Those who think Singapore is a harsh place need to open their ‘eye’ and look at the middle east situation.