New Paper report on China girls

According to the New Paper (Sunday 30 July 2006), '51800 student passes were issued in the past year to foreign students, majority from China, Indonesia and M'sia'. it was also mentioned that S'poreans are finding 'China girls becoming a social problem' and even 'destroying the moral fabric of S'pore society'!

Scary figure the 51800. Although it only represents 1.295% of our total population and not all from China, think of the fathers, mothers, grandmas and granddads who come with many of these students too who are not in the figure. While working at various supermarkets around the island, I noticed that it seems that more of these chinese immigrants live in the west, probably nearer to the major tertiary institutions like universities and polys. At one particular supermarket in the west part of the island, it seems that half of the customers that I see are chinese immigrants, students, families, workers all! If you have time, try standing in a supermarket for 30mins and observe for yourself!

Yes I admit that they do kick local students butts at our schools (no sissy kick, sorta Roberto Carlos kinda kick heh!). Yes they're taking up jobs that S'poreans don't want aka like 'foreign talent', and yes also competing for jobs with S'poreans too.... Yes I also admit that not all of them are 'destroying the moral fabric of S'pore society', but I have to notice that chinese immigrants are bringing a 'new dimension' to S'porean society.

Like how their Falungong members make their prescence felt, Mrt stations, town centres, I've even seen them at the Big Walk, music ablazing! Or the way they talk ever so loudly on the Mrt or in the shopping mall. And the way most of them dress 'quite differently' from the average local. But I do feel S'poreans can learn from them at least one thing. I noticed that chinese immigrants are the only ones now who still go for family evening walks in the parks.... we locals only care to walk with thousands-others in air-con, mozzie-free shopping malls with the occasional MacRitchie trek seeming like an Indiana Jones adventure....

But one thing I feel, 'foreign talent' that they are, they're too many of them already. They speak a to-us-hard-to-comprehend Mandarin, different dialects, mostly poor English, have different names for things, different habits and behavior as a whole. Too many of them in our society, I believe, will affect their integration into our society, just like adding the right amount of MSG would make a fish-ball soup taste better while adding too much would make it taste way salty.

(The above text is purely my own thoughts, with nothing against anybody.)