Imitation is the greatest flattery ... but not to racists

 

 

 

Photo credit to www.theindependent.sg. Mira looked stunning in this Indian dress and the Indians should be proud of her showing the fineness in this beautiful dress and jewelry. It is great advertisement for Indian dresses and culture. No, objectionable? Just because she is not Indian?

Malaysian actress Mira Filzah accused of appropriating Indian culture

After being accused of appropriating Indian culture in a contact lens photoshoot by a Twitter user, Malaysian actress Mira Filzah has apologised. Mira, 27 uploaded photos of herself on Instagram where she is seen wearing anelaborate and embroidered lehenga (traditional clothing for Indian women) and a nath (nose ring).

The actress also posted a video of herself lip-syncing to the song Maar Dala from the Hindi film Devdas. When the photos circulated on Twitter yesterday, a user known as Eshwarya sarcastically called Mira the ‘culture appropriation queen’ and accused Mira of profiting off Indian culture....

 The actress apologised to Eshwarya on Twitter and explained that the reason why she wanted to dress in traditional Indian clothing for the photo shoot was that she is a die-hard fan of Bollywood industry. Inspired by the striking gaze of actress Aishwarya Rai in the movie Umrao Jaan, Mira wanted to look like the Bollywood star for the photoshoot....

In response, Eshwarya thanked Mira for her sincere apology and she apologised if her earlier tweet caused Mira to be a victim of hate comments. Eshwarya also recommended to the actress to use her platform to highlight models, designers and makeup artists of Indian heritage if Mira was truly passionate about promoting their culture.

Even though things have settled between them, Eshwarya was cyberbullied and was forced to close her Twitter direct messages yesterday after receiving a barrage of hate from strangers. Eshwarya shared screenshots of strangers calling her racial slurs and nicknames including accusing her of trying to cause unrest among Malaysians.

To rectify the situation, she said that she had no issue with people of other races wearing Indian clothing but she was merely against those who utilise Indian culture as a tool for profit.

“It’s only wrong when you use it for profit, or just to hop on a trend. When you genuinely respect it or you want to wear it to a friend’s wedding or a cultural event, that’s perfectly okay,” said Eshwarya.

The above is from theindependent.sg

 

Why is the dressing up in another ethnic costume objectionable, even for profit, for advertisement etc when it was not done to denigrate, insult or make a mockery of the ethnic costume or race? Is there any law against such dressing? It is regrettable that this Malay actress had been made to feel so guilty as if she had done something wrong and had to apologise for her choice of costume.

There is no need to add further comments or explanation on this and hope that this does not happen in multi racial and multi cultural Singapore. Wearing another race's costume, donning their ethnic apparels, if not done with no bad intention must not be seen as wrong or to some akin to racism, or like in this case, objectionable just because she is an actress and doing it for profit.

To the racists, go fuck off. Many people of different races are happy and adore the costume and national dresses of others and are happy wearing them and should be seen positively rather than negatively. Singaporeans embrace all races and cultures and not only we are encouraged to dress in our own ethnic dresses once a while, we are also encouraged to put on other ethnic dresses for better understanding of each other's culture. In many National Day performances, the participants dressed up in different ethnic dresses to perform. Performing artists also did likewise in their profession and performances. Are these objectionable?

Holy cows. Singapore must be very firm against racists hiding under all kinds of pretensions, pretending to be hurt or sensitive, to attack others as racists when no one has any intention to discredit and or insult their race or culture.

The racists must not be allowed to dictate what is right or what is wrong in such matters. They must not be allowed to write the narrative and attack innocent people freely with impunity. The authority must take them to task to stop the bigots from setting the norms for the general public, from bullying and threatening the public.

BRITAIN: THE WORLDS WORST MASS MURDERER...The root of all evils

 BRITAIN: THE WORLDS WORST MASS MURDERER...or The Charles Manson of Nation States 

This is the evil story of the British Empire that was not told in western media, but with the help of internet, everything would be dug out to be aired. The British were more evil in the 18th and 19th Century than the evil Americans in the 20th and 21st Century. Both were from the same satanic stock, the Anglo Saxons. Their evil past is catching up with them. There is no where to hide.

Their landing and invasion of the Americas and Australia and New Zealand, and Asia and Africa, the barbarism, were likely the same when they landed in Singapore and Malaya, though they wrote their history books differently, so innocently and casually. They founded Singapore. There were no resistance, no blood shed, so peaceful and agreeable. And they were greeted with open arms and feasted and they reciprocated with kindness, no murders, no atrocities on the locals. You believe in that kind of British shit?

Here is the link http://worldsworstmassmurderer.blogspot.com/ 

Viewers are warned that some photos are very gruesome and difficult to stomach. The video version is in the link below.

Today this blog will be dedicated to the world's worst mass murderer of human history, the evil British of Anglo Saxon stock that genocided the natives everywhere they went. Today they acted like so mild and so cultivated English Gentlemen or righteous white Americans. They came from the dark side, they were the dark side. 

As for the bananas, they would not believe this is true, they did not want to know,as it would destroy their blind fate and exposed their stupidity to believe in western lies.

Here is the video version. https://nortonsafe.search.ask.com/search?chn=store&cmpgn=&ctype=videos&doi=2019-03-31&geo=&guid=a3c73b02-4b0d-45ba-bff7-915673e9c245&o=APN12178&p2=%5EEQ%5Efd30sg%5E&page=1&prt=SSS&q=worldsworstmassmurderer.blogspot.com+video&tpr=sbt&trackId=&ver=3.12.0.3&vidOrd=1&vidId=gPraCuuNQd8

 

Sample Count in GE - What is the real purpose of this seemingly unnecessary process all for nothing?

 The sample counting of votes is a novelty introduced into the GE process of Singapore. I have not heard of any other country having such an additional process to have a preview of what the final outcome of an election would be. What is this sample counting? It is an additional step that allows a small sample of the voting slips to be counted and to announce what is the percentage of votes for the parties involved at the start of the counting of the votes. One thing for sure, it is just a preview but would not be the result as the final answer must be when all the votes are counted.

The question is why have this additional process when it really does not do anything and cannot be the real result of an election?  It cannot change anything. It can also be very misleading as a sample done in this way can be horribly wrong and different from the final result, though so far it seemed to be quite representative of the final counts. A coincidence or what? Is this not surprising that all the sample counts reflected very closely to the final results? Under the rule of randomness, this cannot be and unlikely to be. A sample is just a sample and cannot represent the whole and can be wrong.

So, why is there a need for this unnecessary step that would add in more work to the whole election process, may cost more time to do this extra bit? At best, a sample count would give the spectators and supporters a feel that the vote may be in favour or against a candidate. So what? It can go the other way too. Does this mean that the spectators and supporters can start to prepare for a big celebration or to go home as their candidate appears to be losing?

Come, come, why is this necessary at all? Unless something can be done to change the result of the final count, ... a sample count is totally a waste of time. And in a transparent and clean electoral process like the Singapore GE, everything is so well controlled, no one can ever think of doing something to the results once the voting is closed. Everything is accounted for, every item is controlled, even ballot boxes are controlled item and cannot be miscounted or misplaced.

So, hypothetically, say in a third world corrupt country when election processes can be manipulated, rigged, votes can be added etc etc,  a sample counting would be very useful to the power that wants to cheat and has the power to cheat. In such a situation, when the sample count says the party in power is losing, the party in power could then do something to load in more votes in its favour, to stuff more votes into the boxes, to add in a few more boxes of votes.  Or, if the party in power had stuffed in too many votes and the result would look ridiculous, they could temper it by removing some votes to avoid winning by a too big margin. But such crooked process can only happen in backward third world countries, not in modern cosmopolitan city state, a small state when practically everything is being watched.

So, why is this process so necessary, so important, that it is a must have process? Singapore, being well known for efficiency, should not indulge in doing the unnecessary that has no benefit and a waste of time and resources. I have been thinking and thinking, why perform an unnecessary, good to have task, when there is no benefit to gain from it? I am lost for trying to think of a good reason to have this sample count. So much work, coordinating, planning, time and resources but with no real benefits.

What do you think? Why is this sample counting necessary or should it be done away with? At best people would say the sample count is quite accurate. At worse, if it is the other way, it is frivolous. Having or not having the sample count would not affect the final result in anyway.

Flash mob - A people looking happy, contented and proud of their homeland

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K7de-24Z4M

 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoWJBTwgi1k

 

Flash mob in Gulangyu Island, Xiamen. The short clip is a good description of what life is like in new China and a new generation of Chinese people, prosperous and happy and confident of the future, and their pride in China and in being Chinese. This is something that the Chinese of earlier generations could never dream of and the new generations are very grateful for what they have today, a happy and peaceful life that can been seen in the Chinese people on the streets of Xiamen and every where in China. You can see and feel that they are really happy and comfortable with themselves and their homeland.

 

We don't see Singaporeans smiling and expressing happiness in their faces on the streets of Singapore. The only people that could be found smiling and looking contented and grateful in the streets of Singapore are the foreigners here.

Rude, abusive and cocky Social Distancing Red Guards

Corrupt Social Distancing Officer Threatens Shop With Bad Report If They Deny Him Free Services

Submitted by farhan on Fri, 21/08/2020 - 11:12am

Corrupt, bossy and nosey social distancing officer goes to Century Square shop every other day to disturb the staffs, terrorizing to take photos and write reports if they breach any measures. He claimed that the staffs must stand 1-metre apart when serving customers.

When staff requested him to scan SafeEntry before entering store, he always simply replied he’s not required becos he’s Social distancing officer..

In this video, the staff is under duress to polish his “Tiffany Platinum” for him.. didn’t even bother to ask properly.

On another occasion, the staffs shared that he even asks the staff if he could get his ears pierced for free and he will close one eye if he sees something amiss.

Hope relevant authorities can look into the conduct of such officer to prevent further abuse of authority.

- More at AllSingaporeStuff.com https://www.allsingaporestuff.com/article/corrupt-social-distancing-officer-threatens-shop-bad-report-if-they-deny-him-free-services
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The above is from AllSingaporeStuff. My experience with these Social Distancing Officers in Choa Chu Kang Stadium is the same, not surprising at all.  They seemed to be acting as if they have all been taught that they could bully the public, with the backing of someone very powerful. It reminds me of the Cultural Revolution and the Red Guards going into the villages to threaten the people, bully them and even persecuted them like they were the law, undisputed law, unquestionable authority. They would not tell you to put on your mask nicely but acting like NCOs in an army camp and would threaten not to let you in if you do not put on your mask.

They did not bother to know why you were not wearing your mask. I cycled to the stadium and the police officers on spot checks would wave me on without my mask. But the moment I stepped down from my bicycle, these Social Distancing Red Guards, oops, Officers, mostly part time youth, would insist that you put on your mask immediately when I was still breathing heavily. Even after I did my 100m sprint, one such Officer also demanded that I put on my mask. I told him off, that I just ran and still panting he wanted me to put on the mask immediately.

I have complained to ActiveSg about these rude and cocky Social Distancing Officers several times but nothing seemed to change.  Very similar to complaints against Red Guards, you would get punished even worse if you dare to.  You must know who were behind the Red Guards. They were released to terrorise the people. It is like people complaining about the flood of foreigners to steal the jobs of our PMETs. They simply continue to do what they were doing. The most was to put on a show that they were doing something. They must have been told to act and behave that way, a lot of power to bully the public. Imagine giving so much power to young boys and girls, like the Red Guards?

What do all these say about what is happening? The ASS article was hoping that the authorities would look into the conduct of such officers to prevent further abuse of authority. Fat hope. Who are behind them and giving them so much power? That could be the reason why they acted so cocky and abusively.