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Well, if you say I am privileged, I suppose you are also right although I classify myself as more "fortunate" than "privileged." Reason I say fortunate is because I live in a time of peace, parents encouraged focus on education, parents were fully employed and retired rather comfortable in finances and living standards. This frees me from any obligation to take care of them (I would not be able to provide them a better standard of living than what they have provided for themselves.) But I am only an ordinary guy working in society, no special privileges or talents.
Singaporeans suffering? Yes, there will always be poor and rich in society. I have to say that in Singapore, most are well fed, well-dressed, enjoying some luxuries too. For any visitor to Singapore, the locals come across as pretty well-heeled with an affluent lifestyle. Beneath this façade is where middle-class poverty exists, and by world standards, I define middle-class poverty as wanting to own what the rich bloke owns, and gripe exists among them because these are some what still out of reach, but attainable with luck, and some loans from loan sharks, gambling winnings, etc. Whatever it is, life is a constant struggle for most, not just in Singapore.
Singapore is a society like any other, with the good, the bad and ugly. There are good people who volunteer their time and efforts to help others, and many Singaporeans donate money, clothes, toys and food quite often too. You only have to open your eyes to look, you will find them. Of course there are the uglies and disdainful too. Anger among Singaporeans is normal among any crowd, voicing dissatisfaction, injustice, rich having advantage over the poor, and other gripes are normal. Just that the Straits Times don't publish enough of these news, they rather publish happier tones.
Cheers!
Singaporeans suffering? Yes, there will always be poor and rich in society. I have to say that in Singapore, most are well fed, well-dressed, enjoying some luxuries too. For any visitor to Singapore, the locals come across as pretty well-heeled with an affluent lifestyle. Beneath this façade is where middle-class poverty exists, and by world standards, I define middle-class poverty as wanting to own what the rich bloke owns, and gripe exists among them because these are some what still out of reach, but attainable with luck, and some loans from loan sharks, gambling winnings, etc. Whatever it is, life is a constant struggle for most, not just in Singapore.
Singapore is a society like any other, with the good, the bad and ugly. There are good people who volunteer their time and efforts to help others, and many Singaporeans donate money, clothes, toys and food quite often too. You only have to open your eyes to look, you will find them. Of course there are the uglies and disdainful too. Anger among Singaporeans is normal among any crowd, voicing dissatisfaction, injustice, rich having advantage over the poor, and other gripes are normal. Just that the Straits Times don't publish enough of these news, they rather publish happier tones.
Cheers!
