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anotherlongshot

Immigration and Intolerance.

Apr 06, 2010 21:24

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 ( Read more... )

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anotherlongshot July 16 2010, 08:54:09 UTC

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anotherlongshot July 16 2010, 08:54:34 UTC

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 ( ... )