This website is about Asians, Asia and Singapore. It talks about things
Singaporeans (and most Asians, maybe, except the Japanese) love.
Singapore is a tiny island barely 20km tall and 40km wide. Most
Singaporeans were originally Asian coolies and maids imported who came
to the island to escape from famine and seek a better life.
Independence came in 1965. Britain was then tired of putting up an act about the 'empire' and the 'Commonwealth'.
Most Singaporeans are Chinese with a smattering of Malay and Indians.
Singaporean culture is based on superstitions. The infusion of science
and rationality into Western European has taken centuries through the
Englightenment and Industrial revolution. All these ages did not happen
in Asian societies.
Singaporeans think and live according to superstitions mostly. It is basically a loony bin filled with loonies.
Singaporeans do not eat food according to calories and nutrients. They
eat food according to 'heatiness' and 'coldness'. Every food is either
heaty or cold and they make it up as they go along. Most Asians
(Filippinos, Koreans, Chinese, Japanese, etc )think of food the same
way. Malnutrition and poor nutrition is the result of this. Rice is the
usual food and rice has little nutrients and it as sugary as sugared
water itself, leading to carb crash, with the lack of thinking power and
more looniness amongst Singaporeans and Asians.
Many Singaporeans also do not believe in Western Medicine. They believe
that the Common Cold/flu is due to the weather being too cold. If one
has a fever, that is because one is too heaty. This corresponds to the
'heaty' and 'cold' concepts when eating food. Asian medicine is a hog
wash of herbal formulas (of which most doctors don't even know. And many
contain high level of poisonous substances.) and quack doctors.
Accupunture, Chinese Herbal formulas, Feng Shui, Chinese Prayers, etc
are the default Medicine. It is not uncommon for Singaporeans to refuse
Western cancer treatment and to drink herbal tea (grass + water
basically) and then die from what is curable cancer. Chinese businessmen
sell pretty crystals for thousand of dollars because Singaporeans
believe it will improve their health and luck.
Singaporean and Asian culture is based on hierarchy. Everything must be
placed in a hierarchy and ranking. Humans are ranked according to their
age, education, income, looks, height, skin colour, and more. Children
are constantly ranked in school and trying to backstab their classmates
so that they can get better grades. Adults are constantly trying to move
to higher-paying jobs (surveys show Singaporeans have the least loyalty
towards their employers and feels the least engaged at work in the
world). Singaporeans and Asians are mostly reverse-ageist against the
young. Old people are revered as gods, never mind if you are a rapist.
And old people often yell at the young rudely and address them as 'boy'
or 'girl' or in Chinese 'Xiao Di' or 'Xiao Mei', literally 'Little Boy'
and 'Little Girl'.
There is no trust in society and selfishness and distrust is the default
culture. People do not talk to one another, make eye contact, or even
say 'hi'. If two Singaporeans sit side by side, the default behaviour is
to avoid eye contact, and pretend to play with their mobile phones, or
to look at something else, anything but to talk to one another.
People are aggressive, rude and basically loony. They rush into trains
not caring if they bump into people. They walk on the streets ignoring
people and blocking others. And then curse others for banging into them.
Their eyes are cold, aggressive and they basically look like thieves.
Because there is no conscience or humanity in their culture.
Singaporeans like to puck their lips and make a 'chek' sound to
'verbally hit' or basically to demean someone. They do that all the
time. Another favourite is to deliberately walk into someone and make
him/her walk around them so they have shown them who is the 'boss'.
Shaking their heads to demean and be rude to others is also most common.
Needless to say, scowls, looks of disgust, looks of arrogance and
various rude looks are the default looks on their faces.
In countries with similar cultures, such as Taiwan and Korea, fights are
very common, even in their parliaments or senate for the Americans.
This is because Asians, and Singaporeans, generally don't have the
ability to accept different opinions without fighting. There are few if
not no fights in the parliaments of countries such as Singapore, North
Korea, and China. Because these countries are basically dictatorships or
one-party states (more aptly termed as the 'Emperor System' which is
basically how Asian societies are governed) so there have never been
enough opposition members in parliament to start a fight. Besides, these
countries are ruled by fear and starting a fight against the Emperor
only gets your head rolling off your shoulders and that is pretty bad
for one's health.
The National Culture is embodied by the 5Cs - Credit Card, Cash, Car,
Country Club membership and Condominium. I don't have to tell you how
shallow and materialistic that is. It stems from the Asian culture to
have 'face' at all cost. During Chinese New Year, all the songs and well
wishes are about wishing one another prosperity, wishing others good
luck, wishing that others win the lottery (mostly about money again) for
the New Year. Singaporeans give each other money (money again) in red
packets (for financial prosperity again) and not gifts. I don't have to
tell you that money is pretty important in Singapore. Ladies carry their
branded handbags so as to compensate for their lack of anything good
inside. Guys are busy earning money so as to buy cars and similar things
to impress the females so as to compensate for their lack of anything
good inside.
Singaporeans also work one of the longest hours in the world.
Singaporeans like to leave the office only after their boss has left so
as to present an image of them working hard. I.e. keep face.
Singapore is the most densely populated country in the world. There are
over 7000 people per km2. Since suburban i.e. housing neighbourhoods
make up only half or one-quarter of the country (the rest being parks,
offices, transport networks, etc), in most residential parts of the
country, there is probably 30,000 people per km2. If you were to put 8
average houses in the West in a line, that would build a high-rise
apartment in Singapore that would house a few hundred families.
Singapore is also governed through an Emperor system aka a dictatorship
like many Asian countries. Emperors have run Asia throughout Asian
history and it is part of the culture as well. Democracy developed in
Western Europe over a 1000 years and developed with Western European
culture. Asians never did force their Emporer to sign a Magna Carta and
Athens is not in Asia.
Singaporeans don't like the idea of democracy and egalitarianism.
Everything must be in a hierarchy. How can humans be equal or be treated
equally? There is only the rich and the poor (subhuman). The Emperors
and the Royals and the Commoners. In their minds that is.
Singaporeans like to have power over others and they like to abuse that
power whenever possible. Maids are common in Singapore. They come from
Indonesia and the Philippines and are paid 300-500 USD a month. Many are
made to sleep on the floor, in tiny rooms, and fed a diet worst than
farm animals. It is also common for maids to be made to sit apart from
the family when they dine in restaurants.
Singapore, like all dictatorships, including the Russian one, the Korean
one, or the one run by King Charles a long time ago, is governed by the
use of force and fear. Everything is illegal-- from chewing gum to
vandalism to peaceful protests. Opposition members (trouble-makers who
try to create trouble for the Emperor and the Royals) who are prominent
are haressed and often jailed. One poor lad named Chia Thye Poh was
jailed for decades until the 1990s. Without trial of course. Although I
doubt going to trial would have yield any difference in his
circumstances.
Opposition members are shunned by everyone. Most of them have trouble
finding employment as well. Singaporeans generally avoid talking about
politics and it is not uncommon for them to go 'shuuush' when someone
criticises the Royals. And of course, the media is all tightly
controlled, and editors in the newspapers are often very carefully
selected.
Almost all Singaporeans live in tiny apartments. And almost all travel
by public transport (very crowded and squeezy public transport) as cars
cost at least 50,000 USD and up due to car control measures adopted by
the Emperor and his court.
The weather is hot and humid all year round. It is so hot and humid that life is impossible without cooling. And it is like living in a mouth. The air is hard to breathe in and it causes one to be lethagic and flare up often.
Upon independence in 1965, the Emperor and his Royal Family in Singapore decided that using English and pretending to use British laws would give legitimacy to their rule. English also helped to impress foreign investors and attract much-needed investments from Europe (especially Britain and America) so as to have a chance of solving the problem of mass starvation. They also needed a means of communicating between the different language-groups in Singapore. Singapore (an island only 20km wide, with no resources, depended entirely on foreign investments and today, still does) needed investment to survive. The Royals set out to impress foreign investors. They carefully created an immaculate Changi Airport. They ensured that the road from Changi Airport to the City Centre was immaculate as well so foreigners who arrive would be impressed. They cleared the locals out of the City Centre and housed them farther away and created a business fortress in the City Centre. They hired cleaners from South Asia, paid them low wages, worked them to the bone, threatened to send them back if they did not clean the City well. They enacted laws (much like how the Chinese or North Korean one-party 'parliament' enacts law) and hence, was able to keep the City, especially the City Centre very clean.
In reality, there is nothing English about Singapore. Culturally, people are Asian, the accents are Asian, the laws are Asian, the political system is Asian, but they tried to use fake English laws and systems to give the dictatorship some legitimacy. Just like how the Chinese dictatorship, Korean dictatorship, Russian dictatorship, Zimbawean dictatorship and many others attempt to legitimise their rule with fake one-party parliaments, fake elections, and the use of guns or other punishments.
Singapore is basically a few million selfish and aggressive loonies,
cramped into the most overcrowded area on earth, in one of the most humid and hot areas right on the equator, who eat poor diets,
have poor healthcare, and are obsessed with face, materialistic goods,
racist, and sleep deprived due to long working hours, living in fear
under the Emporer and his court.
Countries in the world today are basically gangs. It is no different from gangs in Manakau City or Compton or A member of a gang is stuck in a particular place, unable to leave, and he is influenced by people around him. He/she draws all his ideas and behaviour from the same source (the same mainstream culture). How can everyone in Singapore be so bad? Not everyone is bad, just like not everyone in a Biker's gang or a racist Gang or who has done time for rape is bad but most (80%) are.
Singaporeans surely have a gift of making anything and everything disgusting.
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