WE CANNOT ACCEPT FOREIGNERS LOOKING DOWN ON S'POREANS

I am writing with respect to the derogatory comment on S'poreans workers by Premanjali Gupta. This is not acceptable. It is not even justifiable. S'porean workers are extremely qualified (be it education, professional experience and/or international exposure) to fill up jobs in S'pore, our own home country. Unfortunately, the current government policies with regard to foreigners and foreign workers are too liberal. As a result, many foreign workers can easily take up jobs in Singapore without as highly-qualified educational and professional qualifications. To make matters worse, some of them get jobs in S'pore using fake degrees and work experience. This is made worst by the fact that many of them are willing to accept much lower wages as compared to S'porean workers, as many of them come from developing countries with very favourable exchange rates compared to S'pore dollars. S'porean workers rightly can demand the higher wages that they are entitled to as (i) they have better education and professional experience and (ii) they have to make sufficient money to support themselves and their families in S'pore. The fact that many foreign workers come to S'pore at relatively younger ages (and therefore, mostly single with no immediate families to support and parents are back in their own home countries) already put S'porean workers at an immediate disadvantage. The fact that they are willing to work at lower wages IS the main reason why they are employed instead of S'porean workers. It is NOT because S'porean workers are incompetent.

We cannot accept foreigners looking down on S'porean workers. Many of them think that they get jobs in S'pore because S'porean workers are incompetent and/or do not want to work at such jobs. They may even think that S'poreans always complain that foreigners take away their jobs because we are sour-grapes. This is all not true. How can we let foreigners continue to humiliate and look down on S'porean workers, especially when such disrespect are not based on truthful reality but on askew, misinformed perceptions? S'poreans deserve the pride that we ought to have in ourselves because S'porean workers are one of the most efficient and well-qualified in the world.

I hope the top leaders of S'pore can enact proper policies with regard to foreigners and foreign workers in S'pore. This is because such disrespect to S'porean workers is an insult to S'pore's pride and dignity as a nation. S'poreans are starting to feel that the education (especially if they come from top schools and universities) that they had received in their own home country and the enormous time, effort and money that they spent in receiving their education are being disregarded in their own home country. This is extremely not acceptable, especially when some foreign workers get jobs using fake degrees and work experience.

Some S'poreans decide not to migrate to other countries (no harm since we are already second-class in our own home country) because we do love our home country. We love our own unique local foods, culture and Singlish. S'pore is where we are born. S'pore is where we call our home. So how can it be acceptable that S'poreans feel that the policies enacted in S'pore (which rightly should favour and protect us the most) do not love us back?!

Disheartened patriotic S'porean