Originally posted by xtreyier:
I, as a Singaporean, do not enjoy your tone. Perhaps you may had been provoked, of which I do not deny. But do know that you and the children of such schools exists ONLY because of universal sufferage, of which we,.Singaporeans, have no wish to see your kind denied of your culture and heritage. We could have enforce the rule, since money MOTIVATES your kind to work here. But we DID NOT. Appreciate this fact, and be thankful.Secondly, ALWAYS, ALWAYS, remember you are, no matter how great you presume your country to be, or how great your education system is, (what is the yardstick anyway? Acknowledging our education curriculam is good as your senators often do would make our system better, but why quibble, kids are kids and innocent anyway, good or bad, we will ultimately learn one way or another.), AMBASSADORS of your country.
The way you put us and our citizens down is absolutely high handed and disgusting, and i am sure many of your fellow matured citizens would share such feelings. But i forgive you, for you are only an immatured kid.
Being ambassadors, diplomacy is much required to foster better understanding, espacially since you are only guests and motivated by, to put it bluntly, greed. We Singaporeans can be accomodating, but only if you, as a guest, does the initiation part first, to open your palms, face it forward signifying you have nothing to hide, with absolute openness to understand our culture as we seek to understand yours, so that we may live side by side, as we had done with the evidence of our multi-racial society.
Accept my post in a positive spirit, otherwise we will needlessly never see eye to eye and instead of fostering understanding, only unnecessary misunderstanding will prevail.
But it is your choice. The ball is in your court now.
Cheers.
I see Kuali Baba already replied to your post, so maybe this post isn't necessary. However, I would like to say a few things.
I'm not saying how awesome the US is and how lame Singapore is. You know, I'm only American by my accent, education, and birthplace/passport. My mom is actually Chinese, and my dad is Taiwanese (they both learned English and immigrated to the US for college). Basically, I'm a Chinese person who can speak English and Chinese (except not reading/writing). Not very different from Singaporeans, right?
Singaporean culture is not wrong, bad, or stupid. I never said any of those things. If you read my post, I was merely stating the fact that expats do not come to Singapore to find a new culture and embrace it; therefore, their kids do not enter the local education system.
And as Kuali mentioned, you should read the post that I was replying to.