Sunday, August 27, 2006
a singaporean thing?
I came to realise recently that, as much as our government trys to promote the acceptance of foreign talents and the profits of the China Market now (even more so in future), majority of Singaporeans still feel superior and look down on our fellow black hair black eyed mates from China.
What exactly do we deem ourselves superior for?
Is it for our inability to speak or write proper english or chinese, our lack of exposure to the outside world, or our special national language that sounds totally alien and impossible to comprehend to the ears of an outsider?
We laugh at the accent of our mates who speak pure chinese, mock them behind their backs, and judge their nation based on our shallow and superficial views of their "dirty streets" that we assume have never been through change since the Mao era. Other than those of us who have been to the few main cities of China in recent years, none stands to testify against the claims about China being nothing but "dirty streets".
We Singaporeans seem to have become overly conceited with the success of our nation that all we do is huddle in one big bunch together and blindly put others down.
While people in the states are plunging deep into Asia to learn our culture and language, we as Asians fail to master our own language properly and in some cases, are proud to proclaim their lousy command of their mother toungue.
Can we still hold our heads up high if we leave this place to venture into foreign lands, where neither english-speaking caucasians nor chinese-speaking mainlanders understand our alien language we call Singlish?
5:27 pm
Do you wannabe a superstar?
