Little India Riot

Okay I don't usually weigh in on such events but I feel the need to now. 

People need to stop telling the Indians (usually Bangladeshis so they aren't all too accurate on that part) to go home because "THIS IS SINGAPORE NOT INDIA". They need to stop freaking out about how their clean and safe environment is ruined and how they fear that their kids will never walk on the safe sidewalks again, "OMG". They need to stop condemning them. They need to stop complaining about the PAP causing this - this riot and unsafe Singapore. 

The thing is, how many of you out there really understand what it's like to work under the hot sun, even during the haze, get paid minimally, be so pressurised to make enough to make ends meet for them here and for their family back home and get treated like dirt. If we're talking about Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, I'd say about zero of them are met. 

Guys, we are more fortunate than most of them and it's something to be thankful for, not something to look down upon them for. It doesn't help that they aren't paid a lot even though they're the ones who do they dirty work for you when you don't want to do it yourself. You don't want to be the one fixing that flooded and choked drain on that muddy pavement do you? You don't want to be the one sweltering under the hot sun building some luxurious condo that you can never afford, do you? You don't want to be the one surviving on poor pay while your family is a gazillion miles away, do you? 

You don't. 

So show them some respect. Instead of thinking of how "ooooooooo such unsafeness in my country", think about why they're doing this.  Think about why they're upset. Put yourself in their shoes. Don't be ignorant or use this as an excuse to be xenophobic. You don't even want to get me started on "Tiongs"

I would also give this man a standing ovation because he has got it all down.