Don't worry, I am used to caustic statements from Singaporeans in my travels. Even Koreans become easygoing when comparing directness and frankness.
I'm not worried about your feelings, but that stick up your ass might need medical attention. That said, it was improper of me to tell to you fuck yourself when you're already preoccupied. I'm so sorry.
In my travels I find that Singaporeans have the highest out marriage rate to white people. Higher than Hong Kongers and Taiwanese (Taiwan is not a good comparison because it is less cosmopolitan). That's the basis for my statement. A lot of them literally cling onto their shoulders as a sign of how lucky they are to have snagged one. Especially xiaxue.
Anecdotal evidence doesn't mean very much. Most Singaporeans I know, both local and overseas, are married to East or South-east Asians. I know one local married to another local Indian, and a guy who settled in Canada who married a Caucasian Canadian. But I find that Singaporean Chinese don't tend to go for interracial relationships.
But like I said, anecdotal evidence doesn't mean very much. I'm curious to see some numbers though, if it is true that I might have a theory as to why.
@azuazu @crash8pilot Why are Singaporeans and Hong Kongers so racist against Bangladeshis and Filipinos? Maybe Filipinos are viewed as annoying, but Bangladeshis are seriously friendly and nice people. In HK, south Asians are treated like scum. In Spore, you have ads like Looking for tenants: No Indians.
You're looking at the effects of negative blanket stereotyping, duh! Which is a tad ironic, coming from you.
From what I understand Minnan languages themselves are not mutually intelligible? Like a Hokkien person cannot understand a Teochew person?
What's funny is that Singaporeans say mainlanders all look the same. But I think Singaporeans all have that same Fujian face. Maybe it has to do with the lack of use of upper cheek muscles when speaking versus Korean for example. Sorry I'm getting out of topic here and need to get back.
Now you're just straight up insulting my intelligence. Or is a jab on my eyesight?
Whatever, I get it. Something deeply personal and traumatic happened between you and a Singaporean and now you just can't help yourself.
Tell me where the nasty Singaporean touched you, we'll get through this together. I promise I won't laugh. Too much.
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Jokes and jabs aside, I don't disagree with your original statement. I've been all over the world and lived most of my student life in Anglo countries, so much so I'm not sure I qualify as Singaporean anymore... and despite meeting hundreds of my fellow Singaporeans I only have befriended two.
Overseas Singaporeans are among the most naive and insufferable people I have the displeasure of meeting. Most of them don't know how the world works, they pretend racism isn't a thing until it affects them personally, all the while being incredibly racist themselves.
They have this racial hierarchy in their heads that put the Whites on top and coloured folk of any shade beneath them. Most Chinese Americans, HKers and Taiwanese have the same idiot mentality too, but with an extra helping of intense hatred towards anyone from the PRC while the Singaporeans stop at ignorant disdain.
I find the only Chinese people I get along with are Malaysians, Indonesians and Mainlanders. The first two groups have grown up as second class citizens in their country and are a lot wiser to the way of the world. The latter haven't been indoctrinated by Western media and whatever illusions they had about the West or other Chinese diaspora are quickly shattered on first contact. For the most part they are just so much easier to talk to because I don't have to pretend the world is upside down lest I induce mind-breaking cognitive dissonance.
All that said, I should point out a lot of the problems we both agree on stem from uncontested negative blanket stereotyping. If you don't like something it might be a little bit hypocritical to go around doing it yourself, just saying.
