What is happening in UK is said to be brewing for years and waiting for an opportunity to flare up. And flare up it did and if not managed well could get much worst. Many towns and cities are now affected with the media and politicians not being very helpful by playing up racial biases and disinformation to stir hate and division.
The US is no better, with extremist racists like Trump and his white supremacist right wing thugs all waiting to start a war on the slightest opportunity. Europe too will not be spared with the decades of wars they manufactured leading to an influx of refugees from the Middle East and Africa flooding into the region. This self inflicted problem, aided by some quarters that were struck by guilt conscience and kinder to the plight of the refugees, would only make the problem getting worse over time. The increasing presence of immigrants, many poor and unable to assimilate into the European cultures and communities, is like adding oil into water that never will gel, is a time bomb in the making.
Singapore is still blessed with stability and security despite the massive influx of immigrants in the last 2 or 3 decades. How well will the mixed if more and more foreigners are added to the diminishing Singaporean core without upsetting the peace and security of the Singaporean community, only time will tell. Adding foreigners furiously into a melting pot of a multi racial society that is young and not fully mature is playing with fire. But it seems that there is no sign of slowing down and more and more foreigners would be brought in to build a new Singaporean core which will eventually be made up of a foreigner majority rather than Singaporean majority pot. No amount of explanation can hide the fact that the new foreigners, now called Singaporeans, are not the same as the original Singaporeans and what their thinking and unexposed inner feelings are towards Singaporeans can pose an existential threat to the future of Singapore.
A lot of care and sensitivity and thinking, hard thinking, not superficial thinking must go into the making of immigration policies. Just wishful thinking, hoping that all will end well is very dangerous and highly irresponsible. What is happening to UK,US and Europe is a warning to what would happen to Singapore in the future as deep emotional feelings would explode at the most critical time when one thinks all is fine.
Lets hope some serious wise thinkers, not superficial clever thinkers, would relook into the madness of unrestrained immigration and expansion of the population with foreigners that may look like some of us but are really intrinsically different with very different motivation and intention to be here. We should avoid creating a time bomb that would explode right in the face of our future generation that would rip this little island of ours apart.
