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Expat ticks off Singaporeans: You cannot say you are entitled to jobs in your country
In an interview conducted by the Straits Times today on the expatriates working in Singapore, 37 year old Ms Zimmermann felt that Singaporeans are generally friendly to foreigners though some harbor anti-foreigner sentiments, that is to be expected.
‘This anti-foreigner issue is in every city. It’s a natural debate and the Swiss are questioning it too. But no one owes anyone else a living; you cannot say you are entitled to jobs in your country,’ she says.
Her colleague Ms Dalli added that she is ‘aware’ that Singaporeans worry about a growing divide between the cosmopolitan rich like her, and lower-income heartlanders, but praises Singapore as a society where ‘opportunities remain open to all.’
“Everyone in Singapore, regardless of his social background, has the same access to the MRT, education, safety and job opportunities. It’s only if these opportunities are available only to the top in society that you have a true divide,” she was quoted as saying.
Though Singapore has one of the richest country in the world, it has the highest income gap between the rich and the poor among the thirty most advanced economies in the world after Hong Kong.
In an interview conducted by the Straits Times today on the expatriates working in Singapore, 37 year old Ms Zimmermann felt that Singaporeans are generally friendly to foreigners though some harbor anti-foreigner sentiments, that is to be expected.
‘This anti-foreigner issue is in every city. It’s a natural debate and the Swiss are questioning it too. But no one owes anyone else a living; you cannot say you are entitled to jobs in your country,’ she says.
Her colleague Ms Dalli added that she is ‘aware’ that Singaporeans worry about a growing divide between the cosmopolitan rich like her, and lower-income heartlanders, but praises Singapore as a society where ‘opportunities remain open to all.’
“Everyone in Singapore, regardless of his social background, has the same access to the MRT, education, safety and job opportunities. It’s only if these opportunities are available only to the top in society that you have a true divide,” she was quoted as saying.
Though Singapore has one of the richest country in the world, it has the highest income gap between the rich and the poor among the thirty most advanced economies in the world after Hong Kong.