Protracted online flame war between foreigners and locals on
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Protracted online flame war between foreigners and locals on TR a warning for future social unrest
January 18, 2010
It was supposed to be a routine run of the mill article on Temasek Review on the issue of foreign workers, but it ended up being the most commented article in its history. (read article here)
In the span of four days, the article about a young Myanmar lady working as an accounts executive in Singapore and taking English lessons at a Community Club at the same time had atracted more than 5,000 readers and 400 comments so far.
Apparently, somebody had tipped off the Burmese community in Singapore who flooded our site posting comments berating us for “insulting” the Myanmar lady by posting her particulars online when we had obtained the information from Straits Times.
Some posters accused us of poking fun at her language skills and demanded that we apologize and delete the article. Others slammed us for being “unprofessional” and threatened to sue us.
Though we have explained repeatedly that the gist of the article is about the immigration policies of the ruling party and not on any particular persons or nationality, the flaming continue unabated till it becomes a mud-slinging session for both the foreign workers and locals to vent their frustrations, resentment and anger.
Judging from the comments posted, it is quite obvious that the tension has been building up in both communities for quite some time already. Our article is merely a spark which triggered the storm.
While the Burmese felt that they were being bullied by the locals, Singaporeans are of the view that they are here to snatch away jobs are otherwise taken up by them.
This is probably the first time that an all-out “flame war” has broken out between foreigners and locals, a reflection of how serious the problem has become which continues to be ignored by the ruling party.
In an ambitious plan to increase Singapore’s population to 6.5 million people, the ruling party had allowed too many foreigners into Singapore in too short a period of time without taking into consideration the interests and feeling of Singaporeans.
After realizing the extent of the problem, they decided to throw money at it in the form of a $10 million dollar Community Integration Fund which proved to be “too little, too late.”
The root cause of the social tension lies in the fact that Singaporeans feel they are not getting a fair deal from the government as rightful citizens of the nation ranging from housing subsidies, places in primary schools to jobs which pay well.
Singapore had accepted many immigrants from Malaysia, Indonesia, Hong Kong and Taiwan in the 1980s and 1990s and Singaporeans never had any issues with them as they are similar to us in culture and had come in smaller numbers.
The latest wave of immigration saw the ruling party opened the floodgates to the world, especially Chinese and Indians who flocked to Singapore in such large numbers that they do not see the need to integrate into Singapore society.
Some questioned why we did not close the article for comments which appears to be inciting hatred between the Burmese and Singaporeans.
We are leaving it open for the authorities to see for themselves the mess they have created for Singaporeans and if they do not revamp their policies radically and reverse the intake of foreigners, the flaming they see on TR now will spill over into real life one day.
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Why PAP create so much problems for Singaporeans?
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3rd world country and first world country
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mods must be sleeping again,...haiz, in before lock.
Normal lah, in any relationship, the begining will alway start with a bang, after a while, we all will get use to it. No sooner or later, some of use maybe wearing sarong again, the the mynamese will be wearing Levis...it takes time ya.
Angel
for PAPa
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Originally posted by angel7030:
mods must be sleeping again,...haiz, in before lock.
Normal lah, in any relationship, the begining will alway start with a bang, after a while, we all will get use to it. No sooner or later, some of use maybe wearing sarong again, the the mynamese will be wearing Levis...it takes time ya.
Angel
for PAPa
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Originally posted by Johnreturn35:
John, what happen, forget to zip your pant ar??? aiyo, so embarassing -
WAR?me needs to goto war!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ME THIRSTS FOR BLOODALL OVER THE STREEETS AND WITH ,ACHINEGUN FIRE AND GRENADE AND BOMBS EXPLODING!!!
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SALVATION Part 2
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More reasons not to vote for PAP.
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The foreigners are not your enemies....lky and his familee and his poop & poop are.
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Seriously man, I think it's just me only in this, but a certain person has been going around spouting rubbish and proving time over again that he/she is the exact epitome of stupidity.
Why don't stupid people just sit in a corner and die?
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well, they are doing it, except sitting there with a laptop and posting all the way till dead arrive.
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The foreigners are not your enemies….lky and his familee and his poop & poop are.
That's why I stated:
Why PAP create so much problems for Singaporeans?
I know who caused the problems in Singapore.
When someone throws trash into your house, you don't blame the trash. You blame the person who threw the trash.
PAP is responsible for the problems in Singapore, although PAP will say that Singaporeans are responsible for the problems in Singapore.
The PAP will NEVER say that they are the biggest problem of Singapore.
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who moulded LKY and his familee??? who??? who is behind LKY???
It is you, the Singaporean. You are an enemy of yourself.
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Originally posted by angel7030:
who moulded LKY and his familee??? who??? who is behind LKY???
It is you, the Singaporean. You are an enemy of yourself.
I am not worried about you because I know you are a fake supporter of PAP. Who the hell in his right mind would support PAP?
You only "support" PAP for the sake of opposing that's all. Only for the sake of taking up the opposing view.
In your heart, you also oppose the PAP, so that makes you my comrade.
Actually it's good that you take up the opposing view, because you act as a foil to people here who opposes PAP.
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Originally posted by angel7030:
well, they are doing it, except sitting there with a laptop and posting all the way till dead arrive.
I see.
Curious question, why did you refer yourself in the 3rd person?
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Originally posted by Agenda:
I see.
Curious question, why did you refer yourself in the 3rd person?
Because i think out of the box, stand out of the arguement and look at it, it will be very clear...ya. But dun stand too far out of the box until you cannot see anything ya. -
Actually when i rev my voting coupon
I also how any circle one
Which logo seems to be nicer, i just circle
Luckily I circle the right one last few years back
thats why my area got nice reservoir to rest and relax
lift upgrading coming soon. FOC for me also
Once a while got free buffet spread also
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Originally posted by ztreyier:
I am not worried about you because I know you are a fake supporter of PAP. Who the hell in his right mind would support PAP?
You only "support" PAP for the sake of opposing that's all. Only for the sake of taking up the opposing view.
In your heart, you also oppose the PAP, so that makes you my comrade.
Actually it's good that you take up the opposing view, because you act as a foil to people here who opposes PAP.
uncle
Told you how many times already, i am neutral ya. I speak from my heart, all govts have their good and bad, there can never be a perfect govt in this world, so, your job is to weight between the good and bad ya, and then decide whoever you want to be your govt.
A smart opposition will alway praise his/her opponents once awhile instead of keep attack them with critics and comments, praising make them unaware of his motives and when you praise somebody for sake of praising, you put them at the weakiest point, because they feel so high and think that you are nothing but a lacking dog praising the master, and just as the master is sleeping, the dog bite deep into it and win the battle.
I am not joking, Uncle, if you look at how LKY coming into power, you will understand what i mean, he praised his opponents until they dun even notice him, and when he bites, game over.
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Originally posted by noahnoah:
Actually when i rev my voting coupon
I also how any circle one
Which logo seems to be nicer, i just circle
Luckily I circle the right one last few years back
thats why my area got nice reservoir to rest and relax
lift upgrading coming soon. FOC for me also
Once a while got free buffet spread also
Last time, me underage, cannot vote, i am practising hard to draw Mickey Mouse face, the day i get the coupon, i will draw my best Mickey Mouse's face in it.
Singapore, what a joke
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Actually from my point of view
The rich dun really bother about who ruling over
sg . PAP or hammer party or watever hip hop party
What the rich bother is whether shares go up or down
what property to invest, Where to go for holiday etc
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to the rich, let me tell you, got more poor peoples more better, so that they become more richer...alway remember, rich makes money from poor ya, if all rich and clever, how to con them??? Shares also the same, it is a place for the rich to take money from poor. So, if you are poor and dunno much about share...better avoid city area ya
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Originally posted by angel7030:
Because i think out of the box, stand out of the arguement and look at it, it will be very clear...ya. But dun stand too far out of the box until you cannot see anything ya.I see, so seeing what you're currently doing form a distance, are you happy? I mean, you're gonna die on a chair with your face against the screen.
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Originally posted by Agenda:
Seriously man, I think it's just me only in this, but a certain person has been going around spouting rubbish and proving time over again that he/she is the exact epitome of stupidity.
Why don't stupid people just sit in a corner and die?
You must mean lky and his son lhl thugs of Singapore. How I wish them to just sit in the corner and die.... -
One kuku flaming another kuku. Damn bloody kuku.