As part of East Asian culture, Singaporeans like heightism.
Height is viewed as very very important in Singaporean society and
Chinese/Korea/Vietnamese/etc societies. If you are born short, you are
basically looked down upon.
Of course, you are also looked down upon if you:
have lower education
are young
are old
have a different skin colour
don't speak chinese
and the list goes on and on.
But you get the idea. You will always be looked down upon one way or another in Singaporean society.
It is not uncommon for the Chinese to state height requirements in job ads.
However, you should note that they rarely state breast sizes because of obvious reasons..
Saturday, 11 May 2013
Things Singaporeans like: Pretending to be a safe and great place
This comes from the culture of having face at all cost. Chinese
countries value face a lot. You see this in Korea, China, Singapore,
Hong Kong, etc.
In China, the crime rate is low. People are hardworking and intelligent. There is 5000 years of civilisation.
Of course, the reality is internet is heavily filtered. Facebook, twitter, youtube and everything else is blocked. Crime is sky high. Violent crime is sky high. IP crime is sky high. People don't even bat an eyelid if you get run over by a bus or robbed/pickpocketed on the streets. But everything is swept under the carpet by the state to maintain face.
In Singapore, it is the same. The government (dictatorship really) specially prepares the airport to be immaculate so that visitors that land are impressed. They ensure the roads and trains from the airport to the city are immaculate as well. Ditto for the city centre/business areas itself. Investors and foreigners who fly into Singapore see that. They see English signs. They invest money in the city.
But in reality, the airport was built by not Singaporeans but by modern day slaves from South India and China. These men are paid 500-800 bucks per month to work as construction workers in Singapore. They built the airport. They are housed in inhumane housing, work inhumane hours, and put up with inhumane treatment, rudeness and exploitation from their Singaporean employers.
In reality, the clean streets are not kept clean by Singaporeans. But by these very same modern day slaves.
Singaporeans do work as cleaners and construction workers as well but they do not comprise more than 10%.
Another great ploy to market the city is to boast about it's 'achievements' and sweep all negative things under the carpet...i.e. whitewashing. So the media are all state owned and whitewashed.
The crime rate is manipulated by the police and government to appear low. In Singapore, crime can be seizable and non-seizable.
Non-seizable crimes are those such as assault, feeling up women, and etc. The police generally do not act on such cases. Why would they? It is extra work for them and it raises the crime statistics and makes them, the dictatorship they serve, and the country 'lose face'.
One has to take time off work to go to the civilian courts to file one's own charges. The process in theory looks okay. But in reality, it takes years and many days off work. And in the end, one has to represent oneself in court to prosecute the criminals oneself or spend many thousands of dollars to employ a lawyer to do so.
So many victims of crimes in Singapore just suck it up.
And of course, even after criminals are convicted, the dictatorship and their henchmen will fudge the figures to present a low crime rate so as to have face and to attract investors.
Granted the overcrowding (many pairs of eyes watching all the time) and dictatorship (death penalties for anything they fancy) have created a fearful society just like that in North Korea/China/Myanmmar etc.
But try walking down a street in Singapore and see how many people are trying to deliberately bang into you, insult you, and cut you down. Note how the apartments all have more metal grills and bars than prison cells. Pigs are flying if Singapore has a low crime rate (honest rate that is not fudged)!
In China, the crime rate is low. People are hardworking and intelligent. There is 5000 years of civilisation.
Of course, the reality is internet is heavily filtered. Facebook, twitter, youtube and everything else is blocked. Crime is sky high. Violent crime is sky high. IP crime is sky high. People don't even bat an eyelid if you get run over by a bus or robbed/pickpocketed on the streets. But everything is swept under the carpet by the state to maintain face.
In Singapore, it is the same. The government (dictatorship really) specially prepares the airport to be immaculate so that visitors that land are impressed. They ensure the roads and trains from the airport to the city are immaculate as well. Ditto for the city centre/business areas itself. Investors and foreigners who fly into Singapore see that. They see English signs. They invest money in the city.
But in reality, the airport was built by not Singaporeans but by modern day slaves from South India and China. These men are paid 500-800 bucks per month to work as construction workers in Singapore. They built the airport. They are housed in inhumane housing, work inhumane hours, and put up with inhumane treatment, rudeness and exploitation from their Singaporean employers.
In reality, the clean streets are not kept clean by Singaporeans. But by these very same modern day slaves.
Singaporeans do work as cleaners and construction workers as well but they do not comprise more than 10%.
Another great ploy to market the city is to boast about it's 'achievements' and sweep all negative things under the carpet...i.e. whitewashing. So the media are all state owned and whitewashed.
The crime rate is manipulated by the police and government to appear low. In Singapore, crime can be seizable and non-seizable.
Non-seizable crimes are those such as assault, feeling up women, and etc. The police generally do not act on such cases. Why would they? It is extra work for them and it raises the crime statistics and makes them, the dictatorship they serve, and the country 'lose face'.
One has to take time off work to go to the civilian courts to file one's own charges. The process in theory looks okay. But in reality, it takes years and many days off work. And in the end, one has to represent oneself in court to prosecute the criminals oneself or spend many thousands of dollars to employ a lawyer to do so.
So many victims of crimes in Singapore just suck it up.
And of course, even after criminals are convicted, the dictatorship and their henchmen will fudge the figures to present a low crime rate so as to have face and to attract investors.
Granted the overcrowding (many pairs of eyes watching all the time) and dictatorship (death penalties for anything they fancy) have created a fearful society just like that in North Korea/China/Myanmmar etc.
But try walking down a street in Singapore and see how many people are trying to deliberately bang into you, insult you, and cut you down. Note how the apartments all have more metal grills and bars than prison cells. Pigs are flying if Singapore has a low crime rate (honest rate that is not fudged)!
Saturday, 20 April 2013
Things Singaporeans love: Rudeness
Singaporeans have a shared penchant for rudeness. Sparing a thought for others' feelings is viewed as a sign of immaturity in Singaporean society.
They speak in a rude tone. Their language is rude. Their body language is rude. Their facial expressions are rude. They act in the rudest manner. They are culturally rude.
There will never be someone who simply smiles at you to greet you or say 'Hello how are you?' to you on the street. If there is, you can bet he is not a Singaporean. Or perhaps, a stranger who passes you some extra food or offers a helping hand with your heavy bag.
They speak in a rude tone. Their language is rude. Their body language is rude. Their facial expressions are rude. They act in the rudest manner. They are culturally rude.
There will never be someone who simply smiles at you to greet you or say 'Hello how are you?' to you on the street. If there is, you can bet he is not a Singaporean. Or perhaps, a stranger who passes you some extra food or offers a helping hand with your heavy bag.
Things Singaporeans love: Avoiding eye contact
Like all thieves, crooks and twisted humans, be it a gangster from Compton or a thief from Zimbabwe, Singaporeans love to avoid eye contact.
And don't forget, Singaporeans are the most depressed in the world (Gallup survey). It is well-known that depressed people avoid eye contact as well.
It is common to talk to someone who avoids all eye contact. People avoid eye contact in daily lives and interacting with 'people' brings a chill to your heart.
People by default pretend to sleep on buses and trains so as to avoid any interaction (including eye contact) with others. They then 'wake up' just when their station name is blasted on the speakers.
Would you want to live in such a twisted, lifeless and cold society with no positivity between people?
And don't forget, Singaporeans are the most depressed in the world (Gallup survey). It is well-known that depressed people avoid eye contact as well.
It is common to talk to someone who avoids all eye contact. People avoid eye contact in daily lives and interacting with 'people' brings a chill to your heart.
People by default pretend to sleep on buses and trains so as to avoid any interaction (including eye contact) with others. They then 'wake up' just when their station name is blasted on the speakers.
Would you want to live in such a twisted, lifeless and cold society with no positivity between people?
Things Singaporeans like: Arrogance and Face
Ask anyone who has dealt with Singaporeans, and they will tell you how arrogant Singaporeans are.
Walking on the streets of Singapore, it is easy to observe the arrogance on display, on each face of each Singaporean.
People do not give way to each other, instead, they deliberately bump into others just to 'show them who is the boss'.
In the toilets, they squat on toilet seats with their shoes on, and then place their shoes on the wall as they clean their bottoms.
In the lifts, they press the lift close button whenever they see someone approach.
On the roads, they would run you over three times if you are on a bicycle.
In the trains, they are so selfish they rush into the trains without even giving others a chance to exit. As a matter of fact, train stations even run advertisements in train stations to tell people to let others get off the train before entering it. This is someone a 5 year old in other parts of the world does automatically.
If you are a male, and you walk near a Singaporean woman who is taller than you, you can be sure that 9 out of 10 times, she will look down on you and refuse to give way to you.
If you are walking on the streets, you can be sure that cyclists will cycle on footpaths and edge dangerously close to you.
Oh yes, how can I forget, shitting and urinating in swimming pools is also a favourite pasttime of Singaporeans as well!
Things Singaporeans like: Malnutrition and poor nutrition
In continuing their tradition of the Medusa stare (or perhaps the Medusa touch), Singaporeans (and Asians) have managed to fucked up nutrition till beyond repair.
Singaporeans do not eat food according to calories, vitamins and mineral needs. No. They eat food according to 'heatiness' and 'coldness'. Basically, in their culture, all food is either heaty or cold. Heaty food are normally those with high oil content and cold or cooling food is basically those with lesser oil content.
Eat too much heaty food and you become too heaty and you will develop fevers, sore throats and pimples.
Eat too much cold food and you will develop sore throats, colds, and fevers.
Oh wait! What?
Yes. So you are always either 'heaty' or 'cold' and hence always sick in Singaporean culture.
Singaporean food (lunch and dinner) comprises rice along with a small bowl of vegetables and if you are lucky, a few strands of meat. Breakfast is normally two slices of bread with kaya (sweet gel) or peanut butter. Calories wise, this comes up to 1600 or so per day, far below the 2500-3000 calories a normal male needs.
White rice is high in GI, as high as sugar water, and causes a carbohydrates crash just two hours or so after ingestion.
The diet is one that promotes malnutrition, and poor health.
Some say 'you are what you eat' and it is no wonder Singaporeans are loons.
Singaporeans do not eat food according to calories, vitamins and mineral needs. No. They eat food according to 'heatiness' and 'coldness'. Basically, in their culture, all food is either heaty or cold. Heaty food are normally those with high oil content and cold or cooling food is basically those with lesser oil content.
Eat too much heaty food and you become too heaty and you will develop fevers, sore throats and pimples.
Eat too much cold food and you will develop sore throats, colds, and fevers.
Oh wait! What?
Yes. So you are always either 'heaty' or 'cold' and hence always sick in Singaporean culture.
Singaporean food (lunch and dinner) comprises rice along with a small bowl of vegetables and if you are lucky, a few strands of meat. Breakfast is normally two slices of bread with kaya (sweet gel) or peanut butter. Calories wise, this comes up to 1600 or so per day, far below the 2500-3000 calories a normal male needs.
White rice is high in GI, as high as sugar water, and causes a carbohydrates crash just two hours or so after ingestion.
The diet is one that promotes malnutrition, and poor health.
Some say 'you are what you eat' and it is no wonder Singaporeans are loons.
Sunday, 14 April 2013
Singapore -- least emotional and least happy in the world.
A reputable survey company called Gallup recently did a global poll and found Singaporeans to be the least emotional and least happy in the world.
Gallup's poll placed Singapore at the top of the list of countries where fewest adults experienced positive emotions and Singaporeans are less happy than worn torn countries such as the Iraqi, Yemeni, Afghans and Haitians.
It doesn't take much to verify this. Get off a plane and talk to the locals and observe their behaviour in Singapore and within 15 minutes you will probably never want to return for life.
Gallup's poll placed Singapore at the top of the list of countries where fewest adults experienced positive emotions and Singaporeans are less happy than worn torn countries such as the Iraqi, Yemeni, Afghans and Haitians.
It doesn't take much to verify this. Get off a plane and talk to the locals and observe their behaviour in Singapore and within 15 minutes you will probably never want to return for life.
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