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novita77 wrote in message om...
[quote=Ash]Yes, it is a very expensive place populated by lots of spoilt young rich kids, barely legal drinking age, that think nothing of spending S$200 for a round of drinks. Very clean but sterile and characterless with no history apart from a couple of months in 1942. Out of all the places I've travelled to Singapore is about the only one I said I have no wish to go back to. ---------------------------------- Hi Ash, I still do think Singapore nice place to go as a tourist. But we don't want to live there as a resident. Nice place for woman to shopping around. Nice food and nice atmosphere. But once u live there... you will have to keep up with singaporean. Working very very hard... My husband used to work for local company... even on his day off the phone will ring and ask him to go to work. Maybe that the basic characteristic of chinese... Live to work (not work to live). Because of the ppl there very hard working... not surprise the country achieved so much in over 30 yrs. Singapore have the lowest corruption rate in far east. But still... I don't want to live in Singapore.... :-) I don't want to live in Singapore either but I definitely don't want to live in Florida. I think my chances of finding someone to have an interesting conversation would increase if I were in Singapore than Florida. I think that would be true for John's wife. |
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novita77 wrote in message om...
= Come on Mimi... I take it u r a lady from ur name. Don't tell me u don't like shopping in Singapore. Yes... Singapore is a 'fines' country... lol... I didn't see anything good about Singapore shopping compared to NYC or HK except that Singapore had a lot of good Australian and European wares that don't make it to the US. I can get major labels cheaper and with good return policies in NYC than in SG or HK Do you mean clothes? I noticed that the Japanese expat wives (unlike in HK or NYC) looked roughed up by the sun. |
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novita77 wrote in message om...
= Come on Mimi... I take it u r a lady from ur name. Don't tell me u don't like shopping in Singapore. Yes... Singapore is a 'fines' country... lol... I didn't see anything good about Singapore shopping compared to NYC or HK except that Singapore had a lot of good Australian and European wares that don't make it to the US. I can get major labels cheaper and with good return policies in NYC than in SG or HK Do you mean clothes? I noticed that the Japanese expat wives (unlike in HK or NYC) looked roughed up by the sun. |
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You are very naive to think this way. Singaporeans, especially, ethnic
Chinese, discriminate against Filipino and Indonesian maids, and especially Indian foreign workers. It is not a race or skin color thing, they even dislike Chinese from China, because many of them are construction workers or prostitutes. Either you don't look like any of the above, or you have not lived in Singapore long enough, or you always only go to the tourist areas. novita77 wrote in message om... I am not agree with you... Sorry!!! Loads of Indonesians working in Singapore as a maid. But I never have a bad treatment. Singaporean ppl most of them are OK. Place is very cosmopolitan. THey don't judge ppl by skin's colour. And so what if ppl mistaken and think you are a maid? Maid is also a job... |
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You are very naive to think this way. Singaporeans, especially, ethnic
Chinese, discriminate against Filipino and Indonesian maids, and especially Indian foreign workers. It is not a race or skin color thing, they even dislike Chinese from China, because many of them are construction workers or prostitutes. Either you don't look like any of the above, or you have not lived in Singapore long enough, or you always only go to the tourist areas. novita77 wrote in message om... I am not agree with you... Sorry!!! Loads of Indonesians working in Singapore as a maid. But I never have a bad treatment. Singaporean ppl most of them are OK. Place is very cosmopolitan. THey don't judge ppl by skin's colour. And so what if ppl mistaken and think you are a maid? Maid is also a job... |
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if you on't already know....most singaporians are bigots.....big time
bigots...... On 29 Nov 2004 15:12:14 -0800, (tamarind) wrote: You are very naive to think this way. Singaporeans, especially, ethnic Chinese, discriminate against Filipino and Indonesian maids, and especially Indian foreign workers. It is not a race or skin color thing, they even dislike Chinese from China, because many of them are construction workers or prostitutes. Either you don't look like any of the above, or you have not lived in Singapore long enough, or you always only go to the tourist areas. novita77 wrote in message om... I am not agree with you... Sorry!!! Loads of Indonesians working in Singapore as a maid. But I never have a bad treatment. Singaporean ppl most of them are OK. Place is very cosmopolitan. THey don't judge ppl by skin's colour. And so what if ppl mistaken and think you are a maid? Maid is also a job... |
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Singaporeans usually do not discriminate openly, they will treat you
OK, but you never know what they say behind your back. Recently at a night club at the Grand Hyatt hotel, two women from China were denied entry, simply because they could not speak English. If this is not discrimination then I don't know what it is. |
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Singaporeans usually do not discriminate openly, they will treat you
OK, but you never know what they say behind your back. Recently at a night club at the Grand Hyatt hotel, two women from China were denied entry, simply because they could not speak English. If this is not discrimination then I don't know what it is. |
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