What hundreds of metres away? I was like 5 feet away from their open fire cooking pots. Featured on TV before? Really? Show title, channel and date please. (So I can look up on Youtube one.)
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seriously, what makes you think that the government "hid" "squatters"?
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It does a pretty good job at making sure that the poor have no public outlet.
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Breaking up opposition HDB estates? Gerrymandering is one thing, but what are you talking about?
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Several cases -- cannot recall off the top of my head, must research, but aiyah also talk to some taxi drivers (and you a Singaporean have the most immediate access to one) and they sure to know...
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But what premises substantiate your stand? Do students who wish to go overseas really feel that way? And do other countries really institute full financial aid with no obligations for their citizens to study abroad?
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The fact that Singapore is ranked 147 out of 167 for press freedom?
Outdated ideas on race, held by both LKY's faction and the old Chinese gerontocracy? (The Chinese elderly are the worst racists.)
Deeply entrenched vicious cycles within the streaming system?
And if students are thinking ahead -- do they want to raise a family here?
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Do students who wish to go overseas really feel that way?
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There are many students who would be capable of going overseas if the question of privilege (including the privilege that correlates with the students in the "top" colleges in the first place) wasn't an issue.
Though I'm not really the general type of international student, since I applied to US colleges as a domestic student, the question of Singaporeans who find academic success overseas and have a choice of staying must be common.
And of course ask what your parents would do lah. Ask people who emigrate. Last time, I wondered why people would be so disloyal. After all, if all the people who recognise the problem leave, how can there be any hope of reform?
Now I understand...