Special Report: Racism In Singapore - Part One

First of all, what comes to mind when I say the word ‘indian’? let me help you. Erm, black? Bangla? Construction worker? Rapist? Oily? Easy to prank call? Inde-pola-na?

Don’t deny it. That’s what comes to mind. To most people. To the business people, we are the powerhouse of the world besides china. to the mathematicians around the world, we are the ultra-mathematising kind except for some people.to my friends, they will say crappy, and that is due to the minority that makes people laugh.

okay, you gotta admit. Singaporeans nowadays are hardly aware of the history and all that shit about the racial harmony and understanding. Com’on. Most of you still think Bangladesh is part of India. That’s the reason everytime you hear a funny name like balasingam murthu or if you see a man wearing a turban, immediately you think of him as a bangla or in the case of the turban, sometimes as a terrorist, but that’s a different story.

I don’t blame them. No wait, I blame them cause these people jump to some consclusion that is so ridiculously unjustifiable and totally insensitive to people who are of a different race.

And I am not afraid to say this but most of this racism comes from the majority – the Chinese. Yeah. Not all Chinese but there is a group within the majority that is almost as big as the minority. Yeah. You might think I’m bold but, no I’m not. I’m just saying what I see in real life.

I’m going to educate you now.

The Indians

There are south Indians and north Indians. No not the north and south of Singapore. There are no chua chu kang Indians. I’m talking back in India. The first Indians to come to Singapore back in the good old days where the in thing was trading and wearing little clothes meant you were either a fisherman or a drifter (fancy word for the hobos).

The north Indian are the Indians with simple names, like the Kapoor or Sinai for the hindus and Singh and Kaur for the Punjabis. There are other races beside these two like the gujaratis.

The south Indians are the ones with the extravagant names like balakrisnha. The most of them being tamils. Tamil is also a language, but not the only language in India according to some.

The reason why there is a misconception about the fact the all Indians speak tamil is due to tamil being the languge in Singapore for the ‘indians’. Tamil was put as one of the four official languages (the other three being English, Mandarin and Bahasa Melayu) as there were a lot of tamils a long time ago in singapore and since there was a need for singapore to have a national language for Indians.

Indians have probably gone through so much of racism. Mostly the Punjabis cause of the turban. Since afgans and all the people in ‘terrorist’ countries where cloths around their heads, Punjabis are then regarded as terrorists. People laugh at that. What’s so funny about that. If terrorism was a joke, why isn’t anyone a making fun of the WTC bombing?

Then there’s the red dot, which some people say it’s a traffic light or infra-red thingy. All of the Indian customs seem to be closely made fun of. Nothing seems to be spared of such horrible torture.

It kinda just makes you sick when you hear that. Sick to the core of the stomach. Then people start picturing stuff about the places of worship.

At times like this. It just makes you wanna think.

Think.

Think.

Hm, that’ll conclude part one of this special report.

Pictures will be up soon. Pictures of the different races and the places of worship. I know this sounds a little disorganized but, I’m getting there. I’ll make this nice. Nice wishy washy. Hmm, but in the meantime, think about it. And talk to people about this.