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on Thursday February 27 2014, @03:30AM
from the Xenophobia:-the-Universal-Language dept.
from the Xenophobia:-the-Universal-Language dept.
fx_68 writes:
"A sharp rise in the foreign population has ratcheted up racial tensions. Does Singapore have a problem with xenophobia? It seems that barely a month goes by these days without news reports highlighting friction between Singaporeans and foreign workers in the tiny multi-ethnic city-state."
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Everyone hates me because I'm paranoid.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by mth on Thursday February 27 2014, @12:37PM
Worrying about one foreigner living in your street is xenophobia; worrying that having a 38% foreign population might affect your culture is justified.
From the article, it seems it is not just the number of foreigners that leads to tensions though. The low-paid immigrants are unfair competition on the job market, while the money that high-paid immigrants bring in is being invested outside Singapore. So the native population isn't benefiting much from having so many foreigners around.