re: yesterday's post
I've just been thinking about yesterday's post, and how I said no one was allowing the cars to pass? Well, now I think about it, I realise there were people who waited.. Unfortunately, they weren't Singaporeans. They were angmos. Even foreigners show more courtesy to our drivers than the locals. Isn't that a bit shameful? Then I was thinking of angmos, and how they always say Singaporeans are so kind and friendly and helpful.. And I thought, WHO!? How come they have such a good impression? And I guess it's because they're only nice to the angmos.
What's with the inferiority complex? We're perpetrating the image of them being superior and us being inferior! I remember when I was in Sec 2, there were these 2 girls sitting in front of me and my partner, and they went gaga over angmo guys. They went to the extent of waiting outside the American Club, or was it the American School, for the angmos to come out, then they'll follow them home. I mean, seriously! Bizarre!
And we try so hard to be like them we don't know who we are anymore. On the other hand, in America, Chinese culture and food is 'cool'. Bizarre. Life is strange. We complain we don't fit in, we feel like we don't belong. We have one foot in Chinese culture, and the other in American culture. And we can't keep our balance because we keep trying to move our other foot into the American culture as well. So we fall. Who's going to catch us?
