Tan Chor Kang: April 18, 2014 at 11:02 am (Quote) That this plan to celebrate The Philippines Independence Day on the 8th June 2014 at the Ngee Ann City Square sparked off such a furore both online and offline signals that anti-foreigner sentiment has gone several notches higher on a scale unprecedented, the din of which has reached a level not to be ignored. The establishment would simply like to have us believe that this is the vocal minority speaking but that in my mind is sheer denial. Some quarters argue for the need to curb the anti-foreigner ranting and that allowing the Pinoys in Singapore to celebrate their Independence Day is much in line with the thrust to promote an international flavor of cultural diversity here. Justification has also been mooted that we too had our Singapore Day in London last month on 29th March 2014 where the PM was there to dine and wine with some 9,000 Singaporeans and their friends now residing, studying or working in London and the European nations. Some $4.4 million dollars was squandered on the Singapore Day in London last month flying in local entertainment artistes and hawkers to whip up festivities and local fares. Let’s be clear, the Singapore Day in London was not a celebration of our Independence Day in London but an event hosted by the PM to persuade and convince Singaporeans overseas to return home to mitigate a worryingly low TFR. Singaporeans overseas too celebrate our National Day in small groups but not on an organized scale like this to attract tens of thousand of Pinoys to Ngee Ann City Square to infringe on our national sovereignty. Unquestionably, the organizer‘s aim is to grow the Pinoy community here and for them to bolster the Filipino spirit in Singapore that more of their kind will flock to Singapore. It’s totally different when the Singapore Day in London was to try to get Singaporeans back home. Allowing this to happen may well precipitate into other nationalities wanting to do likewise and to think that we have nearly half of our population made up of foreign denominations; that spells trouble. We have got to understand that Singaporeans are not by nature xenophobic. Nowhere else in the world do you find a country with half of their population aliens, let alone a tiny city-state of 715 square kilometers with no hinterland to fall back on and with it all the attending social and economic woes. People who spoke up against the backlash against the Philippines Independence Day celebration in Singapore are not cognizant of realities on the ground until their livelihoods are adversely affected by the flood of these foreign economic predators. I know of many mid-life PMETs in Singapore being thrown out of their jobs to be filled by hordes of foreigners. Xenophobic? Hardly so when Singaporeans’ livelihoods are on the line messed up by these floods of foreign trash, for we have the birthright to ventilate and to retaliate
Posted on: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 04:49:47 +0000
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