bigotry?

In the news today of the nations paper: racism.

It seems the more you try to integrate (that word again) the peoples that maketh this nation the more obvious the rift in opinions become. We keep trying to sweep under the carpet our all too obvious differences in race, language and religion. The fact is we are all different in how we look, what we believe and what we speak. So what is the point of trying to gloss over these differences? We should glorify in our distinctiveness from one to another and not try to reach some so called 'middle ground' where we all can agree upon because there is none.

The plain fact is that Singapore is made up of 77% Chinese! Even within this monolithic(by comparision) majority, there are the different dialect groups. The bane of all this resentment and the groundswell of discontent is the Speak Mandarin campaign that marginalised anyone not chinese. No matter what you say or do there will always be the ones within and without this 77% who will try to push the boundaries of what is acceptable. Is speaking against mixed marriages wrong in itself? How about late-night getai performances in housing estates? Group Representative Constituencies? Or anything else that crosses the line of acceptance?

Now that I reached this point, I do not know what else to say without sounding like a bigot. So I will leave it off here.(see my previous blog)

I do not want the ISD coming after me. And I do not have the money for a high profile court case.