attinctura

it is not difficult to see why many people view prcs as little conniving dicks, sly and destructive, even though everyone knows for a fact that there are amongst them many a good prc who are not dishonest and not immoral. yes, there are nice prcs. these nice prcs are not detestable.

in recent times, we have come across way too many food safety problems in china. what with sanlu milk and melamine contamination has affected yili and dutch lady china, and almost all of china's milk supply, including the all new startup monmilk. even my childhood favorite dabaitu naitang. everyday, we see images on tv and in print of dying prcs in filthy hospitals and pissed prcs in front of government offices.

the milk problem can hardly be considered isolated. there was also the soy sauce incident, where human hair was added to darken and thicken the soy sauce. of course, who can forget the cardboard pau affair? we still do not know whether there was cardboard in the pau, or the journalist was being a weasel, or the government was making a weasel out of him so that the affair would blow over. anyhows the journalist was a prc, the first broadcaster was a prc, and the parties involved were i think prcs.

food safety aside, there was also the sichuan earthquake. the building generally crumbled like they were built from styrofoam and straw. and then again we see the many parents carrying pictures of their children wailing and attempting to rain blows on the officials, as if this would help revive their children. but here i reiterate, it is only natural to feel angry, especially if your son's school collapsed to smithereeens while the manly school beside it stayed with nary a broken window. of course, theres the perennial blast in the coal mines, although i must say this is not exactly a serious issue since such accidents occured very often in newcastle, in the 1880s.

it doesnt help that everytime after a major catastrophe, premier wen comes around and criticizes the immoral businesses and local government officials. they had no heart, or isit meiliangxin in chinese. it doesnt help that somehow it seems like a fault-finding mission every single time, and somehow it reeks of pinning the blame on the fattest black sheep that didnt cough up enough money in time.

what pisses people off is that the farce comes up to a national level. like the lip synching incident. and the fake fireworks. of course we now know that there was also a farce at the sydney olympics, but this does not in anyway diminish the fact that bocog was dishonest.

as individuals, many of them are downright irritating because they have a different cultural heritage. ok, the prcs in rj tend to be very refined individuals who tend to not have these bad habits. take the train up north to the wilderness of sembawang and yishun, and then you will hear these people shouting on the trains and all. of course, there are singaporeans guilty of all these, but as a massive minority their actions are under the scrutiny of many and then many people get pissed off.

it doesnt help that many of the sexworkers in singapore are prcs, although we must contend that horny singaporeans must keep up the demand for their good service. and theres nothing wrong with prostitution, morally, that is.

what irks many is that in attracting the bright prcs to singapore, they grant them citizenship and all their family members. maybe because of a technical glitch, their whole village gets to come along. we see many a prc selling tissue papers at 3 packets to a dollar all round the island. yes, these tissue paper sellers if singaporeans are bad enough, but it can be understood. but how is it that we allow foreigners to come here to sell tissue papers? should their children not be adequately able to support them? why on earth are we importing liabilities?

all in all, we can see from these damned many problems why prcs are quite disliked. yes, i understand it is not their fault. not every single prc cheats, steals and prostitutes himself or herself. but there are just too many prcs and too many such problems associated with them. they are attainted simply because of their nationality.

it is unfair, it is irrational, but this is the case. if one prc commits a crime, no one really cares. but if so many prcs commit so many felonies and misdemeanours, then it becomes a bad minority. of course, i dare say the majority of prcs are good, but this significant minority of this massive minority on the island gives them a really bad name. and no one can be blamed. attainder is a very british thing, and singapore was a very british colony. attainder is an abuse and excess of the westminster parliament, and this abuse and excess has fallen to the commons.

actually, even among us asiatics, attainder comes in the form of the execution of the whole family. on top of being a severe deterrent, it must have stemmed from the fact that all in one family are one and the same. similarly, as we see prc as a monolithic whole, then the crimes of so many such entities play out on all.