Stop advertizing to the world that Singaporeans are stupid
Attracting foreign talents to work in Singapore has been our government’s priority for many years. The government felt that we don’t have enough talented Singaporean work force to fulfill the demands of our job market. Since Singapore is facing an aging population much like the rest of the first world countries, inviting foreign talents to fill the gap of this disparity of our rate of population replacement, seems like a natural and idealistic path any country should adopt.
The most direct short-term solution includes having an open door policy for foreign immigrants but this is only scratching on a superficial face. Yes, the population might increase but the real question is where the royalty to the country lies? First generation immigrant will never pledge royalty to the country. They have no idea how we have helped built the Singapore society? How our country is molded to be socially harmonious, or how our civic duties and responsibilities are toward Singapore. We can always be proud to call Singapore our homeland. Can they say that? Will they want their children to be integrated to our society or education system so that we have the responsibility to teach them our civic duties at school? Please show me data otherwise. How many immigrants I know told me that they are going to be using Singapore as a stepping stone, a ticket to a better life somewhere else.
First generation immigrants do not have to serve the national service, but the second generation will have to protect the country by serving the military service. My question is, if the first generation does not feel patriotic enough to commit themselves to a 2 years mandatory service, what make you think that they are willing to allow their children to protect their country. Don’t forget, more and more Singaporeans feel that they need fulfill their duty as citizens to protect their own country, by being part of the military service. The kind of patriotism doesn’t come within 2 generation of immigrants. It takes time to propagate the thought into their minds.
In order to be fair to the male population in Singapore, government should at least make us feel better and not betrayed by having the first generation immigrants, age below 30, to serve in the military service like Taiwan or Israel.
We will be discriminated in the job market by having to follow up with our re-service obligations. What have the government done in order to protect us from the discriminatory act by companies that the heads of the department are new immigrants who doesn’t see the necessity for their employees, allowing them to take leave, of what is equivalent of an leave of absent, just because they are practicing in the field for combat reason as oppose to finish up their work for the company.
Right now, we as Singapore male citizens feel that we have been treated unfairly by the government. We have been nothing but patriotic to your country but in returned, the opportunities are in favors of the immigrants. Government should derive a compensation for those who has sacrificed for the country. For those who are serving the army, the wages they obtain from the government is dismal compare to their counterparts who are given a two-year head start. Compensation can come in many forms,
• 100% Education Subsides for all candidate if they are admitted to the university of their choice
• Healthcare Coverage Benefits for every male citizen who is still under the active or reserve mandatory services
I think this is the least our government can do for his citizens who have been actively participating in the military and police service.
I would very much appreciate if our government can stop mentioning that we need to import talent to fill the discrepancies that we are in so calls a “talent deficit” situation. Did it ever cross our government mind that by constantly stating the opinion, they actually think that we will welcome the foreign “talent” with our arms wide open? No, instead, they are making Singaporean feels inadequate, dump, less then and the list can goes on. The resentment between the people and the government will intensify. This is not a way to boost Singaporean’s morale. We have been constantly bombarded with the idea that we are not a talented nation. Even if we are not, Singapore is better not selling herself as an incompetent nation to the entire world.
So what say you when we are faced with a “talent deficit” situation? You know every thing is relative that includes the proportion talented civil servant vs. the basket of talent deficit population.
Government should try to find talent within its own country men or women first, instate of looking somewhere else for replacement. I have been living in many countries for over 20 years. I have been very sensitive toward each country’s policies that I have lived in; I have never seen a country that is so pro-outsiders in my life. People in the countries that I have come in contact with, almost all, except Hong Kong, can’t obtain a work visa as easy as Singapore, hence the citizens of these countries feel that they are protected by the government, they feel safe, each of them feel like their country is taking care of their welfare.
China is facing a talent insufficiency condition similar to Singapore, but do they open their doors so easily to the foreigners? No, they didn’t. Instead, they sent their own people out to be educated abroad so that they can fill the talent discrepancies in the future. Why is our government not looking at similar options for their people instead seeks shortcut for a short-term gain.
Importing people is not a long-term solution to replace the dwindling population. If incentives are not given to their own citizen to breed the next generation, who will be even more loyal to the country, the population replacement rate crisis will never be overcome. Has our government ever think of the situation where the rate of replacement keep declining, and we keep replacing them with immigrants, in a few decades, Singapore will be crawling with almost all new immigrants. Is that what we picture Singapore to be in the future? Where are we going to go in the future? What is there left for our next generations to do when not so talented but unpatriotic immigrants and foreigners occupy the entire country? Will our next generation afford to take care of us? If you can put this situation into perspective, we can picture class segregations, social unrests and how is this deterioration goes is up to your imagination.
One of the long-term solutions we can adopt is obviously increase population from within our country. If the government really wants the rate of population replacement to work, they have to simply compensate them more. This can be tackled on healthcare and education level, giving the citizen, full or almost full, subsides.
As more immigrants and foreign talents has increased through the years, higher job positions have been taken by the ever increased demographic, the gap between the poor and rich has become more and more polarized. It is part of the psyche that if one can’t provide quality to one’s children, they are reluctant to give life to the next generation. My brother is constantly worried sick from the fact that they have three children, and they might only be financially adequate to send one of the three kids to collage and not university.
Before the government give us a lip service that importing people to replace the aging population will not effect the job opportunity of local Singaporeans, I urge that our government to please convince us that they have run out of options and they are in dire need to import people to further diminish our odds of obtaining a job in the employment market.
Encourage adoption from abroad is also another route to achieve this goal. This act of adoption might not correct the lack of talent in the short run but it will certainly give the people, you call your own, a chance to work the problem out themselves. With brighter future, I doubt that any reasonable Singaporean will turn away any opportunity away to bare little patriotic Singaporeans.
My father used to tell us how poor Singapore is, and he had to leave Singapore to places like the Philippines and Malaysia to get work, I have been through some precious lessons on droughts, black-outs, racial and social riots, HDB stages of improvements and the list just goes on and on. We felt bad for our older generations; we promise not to repeat the mistakes. We know our civic duties, we have to conserve water, never waste it. We have to conserve energy because we are not living in country drowned with natural resources, and that the only natural resources are ourselves. Please give your own people a chance, do not diminish our spirit. I remember the Song; Count on Me, Singapore, on the same token, we should be able to count on Singapore, but so far if you really listen to the grass root civilians, you will be surprise how many people feel by avoiding of what they can do to make Singapore a better place anymore because they don’t see the reason why they have to help maintain Singapore for those immigrants who don’t even know their civic duties. The new immigrants didn’t know what we have been through, e.g. many don’t even know that we have to import water to our country.
It’s time for our government to stop living in their own truth. Making comment, which sometime make us feel like they are scolding their 5 year-old. Playing Almighty by deciding what is good or bad for us. We as a nation has growth and don’t need your protection anymore. Most importantly stop making us look stupid and STOP YOUR LUDICROUS BIGOTRY.
The most direct short-term solution includes having an open door policy for foreign immigrants but this is only scratching on a superficial face. Yes, the population might increase but the real question is where the royalty to the country lies? First generation immigrant will never pledge royalty to the country. They have no idea how we have helped built the Singapore society? How our country is molded to be socially harmonious, or how our civic duties and responsibilities are toward Singapore. We can always be proud to call Singapore our homeland. Can they say that? Will they want their children to be integrated to our society or education system so that we have the responsibility to teach them our civic duties at school? Please show me data otherwise. How many immigrants I know told me that they are going to be using Singapore as a stepping stone, a ticket to a better life somewhere else.
First generation immigrants do not have to serve the national service, but the second generation will have to protect the country by serving the military service. My question is, if the first generation does not feel patriotic enough to commit themselves to a 2 years mandatory service, what make you think that they are willing to allow their children to protect their country. Don’t forget, more and more Singaporeans feel that they need fulfill their duty as citizens to protect their own country, by being part of the military service. The kind of patriotism doesn’t come within 2 generation of immigrants. It takes time to propagate the thought into their minds.
In order to be fair to the male population in Singapore, government should at least make us feel better and not betrayed by having the first generation immigrants, age below 30, to serve in the military service like Taiwan or Israel.
We will be discriminated in the job market by having to follow up with our re-service obligations. What have the government done in order to protect us from the discriminatory act by companies that the heads of the department are new immigrants who doesn’t see the necessity for their employees, allowing them to take leave, of what is equivalent of an leave of absent, just because they are practicing in the field for combat reason as oppose to finish up their work for the company.
Right now, we as Singapore male citizens feel that we have been treated unfairly by the government. We have been nothing but patriotic to your country but in returned, the opportunities are in favors of the immigrants. Government should derive a compensation for those who has sacrificed for the country. For those who are serving the army, the wages they obtain from the government is dismal compare to their counterparts who are given a two-year head start. Compensation can come in many forms,
• 100% Education Subsides for all candidate if they are admitted to the university of their choice
• Healthcare Coverage Benefits for every male citizen who is still under the active or reserve mandatory services
I think this is the least our government can do for his citizens who have been actively participating in the military and police service.
I would very much appreciate if our government can stop mentioning that we need to import talent to fill the discrepancies that we are in so calls a “talent deficit” situation. Did it ever cross our government mind that by constantly stating the opinion, they actually think that we will welcome the foreign “talent” with our arms wide open? No, instead, they are making Singaporean feels inadequate, dump, less then and the list can goes on. The resentment between the people and the government will intensify. This is not a way to boost Singaporean’s morale. We have been constantly bombarded with the idea that we are not a talented nation. Even if we are not, Singapore is better not selling herself as an incompetent nation to the entire world.
So what say you when we are faced with a “talent deficit” situation? You know every thing is relative that includes the proportion talented civil servant vs. the basket of talent deficit population.
Government should try to find talent within its own country men or women first, instate of looking somewhere else for replacement. I have been living in many countries for over 20 years. I have been very sensitive toward each country’s policies that I have lived in; I have never seen a country that is so pro-outsiders in my life. People in the countries that I have come in contact with, almost all, except Hong Kong, can’t obtain a work visa as easy as Singapore, hence the citizens of these countries feel that they are protected by the government, they feel safe, each of them feel like their country is taking care of their welfare.
China is facing a talent insufficiency condition similar to Singapore, but do they open their doors so easily to the foreigners? No, they didn’t. Instead, they sent their own people out to be educated abroad so that they can fill the talent discrepancies in the future. Why is our government not looking at similar options for their people instead seeks shortcut for a short-term gain.
Importing people is not a long-term solution to replace the dwindling population. If incentives are not given to their own citizen to breed the next generation, who will be even more loyal to the country, the population replacement rate crisis will never be overcome. Has our government ever think of the situation where the rate of replacement keep declining, and we keep replacing them with immigrants, in a few decades, Singapore will be crawling with almost all new immigrants. Is that what we picture Singapore to be in the future? Where are we going to go in the future? What is there left for our next generations to do when not so talented but unpatriotic immigrants and foreigners occupy the entire country? Will our next generation afford to take care of us? If you can put this situation into perspective, we can picture class segregations, social unrests and how is this deterioration goes is up to your imagination.
One of the long-term solutions we can adopt is obviously increase population from within our country. If the government really wants the rate of population replacement to work, they have to simply compensate them more. This can be tackled on healthcare and education level, giving the citizen, full or almost full, subsides.
As more immigrants and foreign talents has increased through the years, higher job positions have been taken by the ever increased demographic, the gap between the poor and rich has become more and more polarized. It is part of the psyche that if one can’t provide quality to one’s children, they are reluctant to give life to the next generation. My brother is constantly worried sick from the fact that they have three children, and they might only be financially adequate to send one of the three kids to collage and not university.
Before the government give us a lip service that importing people to replace the aging population will not effect the job opportunity of local Singaporeans, I urge that our government to please convince us that they have run out of options and they are in dire need to import people to further diminish our odds of obtaining a job in the employment market.
Encourage adoption from abroad is also another route to achieve this goal. This act of adoption might not correct the lack of talent in the short run but it will certainly give the people, you call your own, a chance to work the problem out themselves. With brighter future, I doubt that any reasonable Singaporean will turn away any opportunity away to bare little patriotic Singaporeans.
My father used to tell us how poor Singapore is, and he had to leave Singapore to places like the Philippines and Malaysia to get work, I have been through some precious lessons on droughts, black-outs, racial and social riots, HDB stages of improvements and the list just goes on and on. We felt bad for our older generations; we promise not to repeat the mistakes. We know our civic duties, we have to conserve water, never waste it. We have to conserve energy because we are not living in country drowned with natural resources, and that the only natural resources are ourselves. Please give your own people a chance, do not diminish our spirit. I remember the Song; Count on Me, Singapore, on the same token, we should be able to count on Singapore, but so far if you really listen to the grass root civilians, you will be surprise how many people feel by avoiding of what they can do to make Singapore a better place anymore because they don’t see the reason why they have to help maintain Singapore for those immigrants who don’t even know their civic duties. The new immigrants didn’t know what we have been through, e.g. many don’t even know that we have to import water to our country.
It’s time for our government to stop living in their own truth. Making comment, which sometime make us feel like they are scolding their 5 year-old. Playing Almighty by deciding what is good or bad for us. We as a nation has growth and don’t need your protection anymore. Most importantly stop making us look stupid and STOP YOUR LUDICROUS BIGOTRY.
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