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<form class="closeButtonAfterLogin hidden_elem" id="u_0_3g" action="#" method="post"><input name="fb_dtsg" type="hidden" value="AQEivj8H3VE2" autocomplete="off"><label class="uiCloseButton" for="u_0_g"><input title="Report" id="u_0_g" aria-label="Report" type="submit" value="Submit Query"></label></form>Raymond Ng · Top Commenter · SingaporeDear Mr Shanmugan,
Greetings!
My wife and I were dining a Tekka Market recently.
There came 3 Indian Nationals sat at the same table , semi-intoxicated - demanding us to buy them dinner. They indicated they are working in one of our GLC. It was a Friday Evening. We rejected their demand and one in the group chased my wife and I away from the table. As we were trying not to upset ourselves in a Friday evening , we moved on.
The experience - especially less than a month after the Little India Crisis - make us have even more serious concerns about runaway public policies.
In my own country, we (my wife and I) were treated in such manner (being chased away by Foreign Workers -earning a living here) and no law and police came to the rescue for such an act.
If you ,Mr Shanmugan or the Prime Minister is being treated in such manner in your own country of domicile; how would you feel?
May I may iterate the PM speech recently; that "all Singaporeans" are equal and those wearing T-Shirts with Holes are equally respected; would you account our feelings of displacement as "Xenophobia"?
I would suggest you organized another Our Singapore Conversation on Foreign Worker Policy and send me an invitation as I would like to contribute to my beloved country and help ease the pain and insults ,( some of our country cousins had been "branded" recently) - as there are sustainable solutions to mitigate such issue. Thank you Sir!
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Greetings!
My wife and I were dining a Tekka Market recently.
There came 3 Indian Nationals sat at the same table , semi-intoxicated - demanding us to buy them dinner. They indicated they are working in one of our GLC. It was a Friday Evening. We rejected their demand and one in the group chased my wife and I away from the table. As we were trying not to upset ourselves in a Friday evening , we moved on.
The experience - especially less than a month after the Little India Crisis - make us have even more serious concerns about runaway public policies.
In my own country, we (my wife and I) were treated in such manner (being chased away by Foreign Workers -earning a living here) and no law and police came to the rescue for such an act.
If you ,Mr Shanmugan or the Prime Minister is being treated in such manner in your own country of domicile; how would you feel?
May I may iterate the PM speech recently; that "all Singaporeans" are equal and those wearing T-Shirts with Holes are equally respected; would you account our feelings of displacement as "Xenophobia"?
I would suggest you organized another Our Singapore Conversation on Foreign Worker Policy and send me an invitation as I would like to contribute to my beloved country and help ease the pain and insults ,( some of our country cousins had been "branded" recently) - as there are sustainable solutions to mitigate such issue. Thank you Sir!