I find it increasingly hard to feel safe as a woman in Singapore… is it right to endow freedom to workers who terrorise and rob us of the freedom we are entitled to in our own country, and especially where we live?
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Everybody for himself; mind my own business; i don’t know you; who cares, not me kenna; if I mind I kenna also ; these are some of the reasons why many ‘kampong ‘folks would not intervene to help anyone in trouble if they see theirs would be treatened too.
I sympathise with her. My advice to her is to avoid the foreign workers
because she herself looked like one or mistaken for one. If it was local it might not
have happened.
Once, my wife was molested by a FW, but she shouted and no body helped. I asked her not to walk short cut when came back home after midnight.
The facts, according to her:
1. The girl was molested
2. The culprit happened to be a drunk foreign worker.
Her letter about lambasting all foreign workers is stupid because the issue is that she was molested, nearly no one helped, and that the police response time was not sufficient.
Complaining that all foreign workers “should not be allowed the freedom of movement” because one of them was the culprit in this case is completely ridiculous. What happens if the culprit was a Singaporean of a specific race? Do we then complain to the forum that all members of that particular race should be banned from free movement?
Focus on the issues: Why did none of the mahjong people help? Why was the guy able to escape before the police arrived? And should we really still believe that nothing bad ever happens in Singapore? With the population growth, our police force is now much more stretched than before — simple logic dictates to be careful when walking home alone, and always always try to have an escort in deserted areas?
I look around every day, and I see people behaving the way they were moulded by 4 decades of Non Welfare governance, which I need not remind you all that it is lauded to be World Class.
When people are told that there will be no Free Lunches, and you are better off working till the very last day you drop dead, how can people be expected to COMMONLY be Kampung Spirited and jump at every or any opportunity to help another whose life and or limb (or in this case, a woman’s modesty) is at risk? People in society here in SG, were cultivated over decades to ONLY mind their own livelihoods, wellbeing, safety, & health. Because there will be NO helping hand if you fall regardless of what one’s circumstances may be.
There you have it, an apt scenario for the well known saying; “Like father like son” or “Like government like citizens”.
The recent National Day Rally, our dear PM spoke of the need and importance of Graceousness. I say that a lot of wholesome manners apart from just Graceousness, starts from Home. Home in this sense being Singapore and the ‘parents’ being the government, I say Graceousness or the lack of it thereof, stems from the kind of givernance and its policies rigidly upheld over decades.
Now that such self-centeredness and self-preserving mindsets have become akin to being cast in iron, blabbering about Graceousness just now, is truly indeed Too Little, Too Late.
Lets all go back to Kindergartten… literally. Start back from there. There’s even a little segment now in Kindergarttens wherein parents are TAUGHT how to bring up the children.
Progressing are we?