First, the setting: I shot this picture on a weekend night, near Jurong East MRT station. There are a number , quite a number of groups of Indian workers gathering, picnicking.
In view of the recent hoo-haa about Indian workers loitering around our neighborhood, what I trying to say is this: accommodation and assimilation.
On the one hand, Singaporean should accommodate the foreign workers - after all, they here to do jobs that Singaporeans don't want to work. On the other hand, foreigners should learn to assimilate into our culture and blend in as much.
Singapore is already such a multi-racial society. I'm not sure about others, but for me, I can't different a mainland Chinese or Indian or a Filipino or Thai, just by look. Okay, maybe accent and language is a give away. But, more obviously is the actions and behaviour.
Our fore fathers are immigrants too, similar to the Europeans who immigrant to the New World looking for a better future. So does everyone else. So ... let's accommodate and assimilate and work together for a better Singapore, and not point finger and one another.
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