Original Singaporeans ie Pioneer and Merdeka Generations facing extinction

 The original Singaporeans, the Singaporeans that saw the birth of Singapore as a new independent city state, will soon disappear from this island. These are the people that saw and built what Singapore is today, not the silly narrative that the new foreigners are the one that built Singapore being peddled by some Singaporeans and foreigners. Some even claimed that foreigners built DBS or SIA or all the infrastructure of Singapore, the roads, trains, the reservoirs, the housing estates. True that Singapore hired a lot of foreign workers to do the manual works, but the thinking and planning need brains, were by Singaporeans.

The pioneering Singaporeans are ageing, in their 70s, 80s and 90s. Many have departed. What is left or will be left will be their descendants, supposedly the rightful heirs to the trees planted by their fathers and forefathers. But the demographics of Singapore is changing as well. The Singaporeans, the inheritors of the island, are also diminishing, through low TFR and diluted by the influx of foreigners, both residents and non residents. The opening of the flood gate to turn foreigners into Singaporeans will dilute the original Singaporeans even faster. Superficially nothing changed, but when new citizens became the majority, growing at faster rate than the original Singaporeans, the core will change.

The bigger picture, ignore the official statistics, just move around the city state, the trains and the buses, the business centres, industrial parks, there are more foreigners than Singaporeans. Singaporeans are now a minority in their own country. Is this a good thing? To those that allowed this to happen, facilitating the foreigners to be here, it must be a good thing. Would the original Singaporeans think so? They own this place and all the assets and reserves. Why give it away on a silver platter and being sneered by the foreigners as stupid, as undeserving? Many are so daft or tidak apa, did not bother, did not want to know, did not care. The low TFR will mean Singaporeans will extinguish themselves by not reproducing. Well, if this is the trend, nothing can be done, why bother?

The distinction between a citizen and a foreigner will increasingly become less important. Just treat Singapore as a hotel for everyone. The more aggressive and scheming foreigners will know what to do if they want to take over Singapore. It is so easy. They can buy up everything here. They can populate and displace the original Singaporeans when no one think it is necessary to stop them, or even facilitating their takeover of Singapore. Singaporeans just live for a generation or two and disappear quietly from this island, with no traces of themselves in the future. Why bother about nation building? Why bother about a human story movie like Dear Ah Mah?

There are now more than 6 million people in the island and the original Singaporeans is probably less than 2 million. The statistics about residents and non residents, not wanting to count the non residents to comfort the original Singaporeans that all is fine, that the island is still their island, is fine to the daft Singaporeans. When would the day come when Singaporeans become so few that they no longer mean anything and their fate will be determined by the foreigners, now calling themselves Singaporeans, new citizens? Do the contributions of the original Singaporeans mean anything to their descendants, as legacies and inheritance, or can simply be given away to foreigners and new citizens?  How long would the CMIO formula last? Some may argue that this is the natural course of things to come. Let it be. No need to worry, no need to bother. Who cares about being Singaporeans? Who cares about the Singaporean core? Let Singapore be another hotel, a MNC owns by everyone that manages it, no need to have any angst about being Singaporean or not Singaporean. Family fortunes too can be squandered and taken over by outsiders, and not retain for the family, and no one feels any loss when it happened.

When the original Singaporeans are no more, everything does not matter anymore. No more complaints about being Singaporeans, the inheritors of what their forefathers built and passed down for them. ITE.