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)!