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Originally Posted by Seitsuki
Why isn't this standard applied here? I mean, judging from the pics these protesters number no more than a few 100000. That's less than 0.1% of the population. Why is every mainlander hated on for that?
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The loudest tend to be the more prominent representatives. And the problem is compounded because it is widely reported
and experienced that China expats behave in the similar way they are typecasted to.
Sort of like a self-fulfilling prophecy gone ugly. I still remember the responses on a deleted thread in a local forum when our then Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong responded to rising anti-China sentiment with "Don't forget where we came from" : most of it went along the lines of "Go fakh yourself" and "Stop selling out our country to China"; Singapore is known to have a high number of China expats due to "special deals", but if the sentiment is like that, there certainly has to be something wrong with the people we get from there.
Or there is something wrong with the immigration authorities (yay! another reason to blame the government! [/sarcasm]).