Immigration and Intolerance.

[anotherlongshot]

I read with amused interest this article in the Temasek Review and the comments that followed.
See, last night I got very agitated when I found myself stuck at Novena and not knowing where to take a bus that would take me to the Singapore Labour Foundation building, where Wei Chuen was playing squash. After being directed to the bus stop by the dude

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[anotherlongshot]

I agree that the fundamental problem lies with the government's policy/policies. What I was saying, though, was that being hostile towards all of them doesn't help anything, and in fact only serves to foster intolerance and all things bad and whatever. Taking your religion example, if someone tried to force me to convert to Christianity and I use it as an excuse to say all Christians are bad and they're all pushy and crappy, surely I can't be right in doing so? And so comments that seek to make generalisations about the kind of person that a PRC is, just because he's from PRC, aren't very helpful or valid comments.

I think my point is that people tend to lose sight on what they're criticising. We're criticising the government and its policy, and in so doing we end up taking our anger out on the PRCs who aren't the ones setting the policies; they're merely taking advantage of what the policies allow them to do. I still think there should be less China people here but I'm beginning to re-think my starting position when I come across one that they're all idiots and that I should be hostile towards them.

True, don't have to be fully leftist, but my original attitude didn't live up to the spirit of what it really means to side with the Left. It means you're tolerant, not discriminatory; you're open-minded, not bigoted. And I just completely failed in that. Personal reflection. :)

Damn sleepy so bad reply. Hope it made sense.