The noise against the Chinese majority's existence in Singapore is getting bolder by the day with locals, new citizens, PRs and those paid by us to work here taking potshots at this balance as if this is unacceptable, and reducing the Chinese majority is seen to be fair and just. There is nothing wrong being the majority! Without being seen as conceitedness and racial arrogance, Singapore is today exactly because it has a Chinese majority that worked damn hard to build this City and Country to what it is today. Then what if there was no Chinese majority here and what would Singapore be like can be seen by all the modern cities with good infrastructures in the Asean countries against those cities in Southern Asia. The difference is distinct and cannot be hidden or pretend that we would be better off if the Chinese majority is wished away.
The fact that there was a Chinese majority here cannot be blamed on the Chinese. The Chinese majority need not apologise for it. They were imported here to do the coolie work by the British colonial masters when they found the locals less industrious and the Indians imported from India very good as clerks in the colonial offices. The Chinese were also imported as indentured labour for the tin mines and rubber plantations in Malaya. They grew the Chinese population by designed without conspiracy and input of the Chinese. So please do not begrudged the Chinese for being the majority here and their contribution towards this modern and well organised city state. It could be worse if the Chinese were not here and we would not have this beautiful island to feed the hungry wildlife, jobless and penniless in their slum third world countries. I am not apologising for this hard truth.
Donald Trump has this to say to his wildlife, if you are so good, go back and build your own broken countries. In a way the western countries with white majority are similar to the existence of Chinese majority here. The USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, all have white majority and have to thank them for it for building the modern and well organised countries today. The only difference is that the whites conquered and colonised these big countries and treated them as their own. The Chinese majority in Singapore did not come here to conquer the locals and to steal their country. They came here to work, period.
The large presence of Chinese majority in Singapore and SE Asia is a political accident created by the white colonialists. And they stayed and contributed positively and in very big ways to their new home countries. They did not demand special treatment, they did not demand others must give way to them so that their life can be easier. The Chinese majority or minority in SE Asia lived by the norms and political tapestry and demands of their respective countries, often being discriminated. They worked very hard, compete with unfair privileges and discriminations to be what they are today. The minorities must not see this as their right to demand the Chinese to become a minority. The 'privilege' of being a majority does not automatically make the life of the Chinese easier. Every one of them has to work just as hard. It is bullshit to claim that the minorities have to work harder to succeed. My two big balls. With my qualifications and ability, I will be much better off as a minority.
Why should the Chinese give way to the demands of the minorities and voluntarily reduce their presence and privilege just because the minorities are demanding for it? Would the whites in the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand allow their majority to be dwindled to become minorities just because the minorities demanded for it, perceived to be fairer and less disadvantaged by the minorities? Which majority group in the world would be stupid enough to do this and destroy themselves and their own existence? Once the Chinese majority here loses their majority status, they would be buried for good, history, never to recover.
Oops, I spoke too fast. It may not happen elsewhere in the whole world. But in this stupidity has no cure city state, it may just happen when idiots are in charge. As some have spoken, for economic growth, the end all of everything, for money, they would sell their fathers and mothers, their wives and children without looking further than their nose.
What do you think? Is the existence of the Chinese majority being challenge and threatened? Are people uttering existential threat everyday aware of this threat to our existence and well being?
Only in Singapore where the minorities constantly took liberties at the majority, beating them and taunting them and calling them names and racists in public video clips for all to see. And some daft Chinese did not see anything wrong with the insults and vulgar attacks.
