- Foreigners
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prosadist
- March 29th, 21:57
Went out today. Quite rare for me, cos it's a Sunday and there is A LOT of people around. Walked past a coffee shop where there was a huge group of westerners eating there. When I was walking past, they decided to stand up and toast each other. They are in wet gear, so I assume they just had a water sports competition where they did well. Bloody hell. They make sooo much noise that even as I was two blocks away I can still hear them clearly.
Reminded me of what a group of my Karate friends did, I was a part of them. I remembered it was after some competition. We did the same thing - toast each other. Not as loud as them. Not as many people as them(they put three huge round tables together). Bloody hell! The police came sia. But not for them. This is so unfair. Utter INJUSTICE! Tolerance level for the foreigners, or just the ang mohs, are higher than the threshold we set for locals. What is this? Aren't we all humans? Just because they earn expat salary means we are inferior? I just don't like inequality treatment.
Another reason for despising them: They are hogging all our jobs! Do you know how difficult it is to get a job now? I just feel that Singapore is being INVADED by these foreigners. I don't know what to think of the gahmen.. I don't deny, I have to commend them on thinking of using foreigners to make up for the fall in young blood to drive the economy due to falling birth rates. But they just fail to see that locals just get so suffocated among these INVADERS that we are escaping to other countries.
On the other hand, think in economic terms. Due to relatively high literacy rate, locals call for higher salary. Imagine you are an employer, you have a choice between a local and a foreigner. The foreigner does the same work as the local for a lower pay, which would you choose? Profit-minded employers will DEFINITELY go for the cheaper alternative. This applies for jobs in general. This is also thanks to the gahmen for imposing compulsory education for the locals and making it almost impossible for locals to get jobs without the proper qualifications.
For executive positions, the scenario is different again. In this case, foreigners are considered to be the elites, aka foreign talents. Now, foreigners get better pay because they are the so-called talents. The company has to go through a whole lot of shit to import these people in. These talents get the expat salary AND perks we locals will NEVER enjoy. I can't find another country that lays out the red carpet AND dangle the carrot for foreigners at the expense of the locals.
You just can't blame me for holding resentment towards foreigners.