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Singapore is the only place in the world where new immigrants are given citizenship first before they integrated into society. This is also why there are aplenty of integration woes from Singaporeans denial to accept Olympic-winning Chinaporean sports talents to a Chinaporean hanging China flag during Singapore National Day period. The ease of getting Singapore citizenship also contributed to the integration woes with Chinaporeans like Feng Tian Wei getting fast-tracked citizenship in less than 2 years. There is also no English test, no stringent interviews, no merit-based system in the awardance of citizenship in Singapore. As the birth rate of Singaporean Chinese hit a new low at 1.09, even masseurs from China were given permanent residency in order to maintain the racist racial quota policy. While PAP stop short of selling citizenship, it will only be a matter of time before they sell the whole country out to ensure their political dominance for the next 60 years.
In the midst of getting more pro-PAP votes, the PAP government allowed the influx of foreigners and gave away as many permanent residency and new citizenships as possible. Permanent residents’ population have increased 10% in just 3 years from, 0.48 million in 2008 to 0.53 million in 2011 [Link]. New citizens intake have also increased to an average of 18,000 every year since 2006, a NUS sociologist said that these 90,000 new citizens taken in from 2006 were likely to have voted for the ruling PAP government in GE2011 saying “when they converted their citizenship, that’s their vote already”
Most of these new citizens were not integrated with Singaporeans because they only mix around with their fellow hometown folks. With the large number of China Chinese and India Indians in public and working environment, they see no need to integrate with Singaporeans. The best example would be Citibank in Changi Business Park, with India Indian expats working nearly in all of its departments. Hardly any Singaporeans could be found in the bank itself. This happens similarly to China Chinese students in local universities with little or no interaction with Singaporean students because there are hardly any Singaporean student in Singapore subsidized universities.
The integration woes compounded when new citizens do not serve National Service, while a Singaporean male has to serve until 40 years old. This inequality and outright discrimination against Singaporeans were tolerated because pro-PAP Singaporeans set double standards and brainwash their friends with fallacious arguments like “if we have NS for new citizens, who will come here?”, unknowing to them, that 1000 Singaporeans emigrate out of Singapore every year [Link] with a significant amount citing National Service as a reason.
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Alex Tan

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