The Indian culture is more complex and diverse. The black is not acceptable in most of the Indian families.Global Citizen wrote:Sierra, black is acceptable at Indian weddings.
I'm here in Saudi too, but I'm unable to resist to compare Saudi with Singapore. BTW where are you in KSA?drusilla wrote:SMS is the mod, so when he says give it a break, we should!!
Thats one example of appalling behavior from expats, or is it just SMS?? even though i agree on most of what he mentioned about the table manners of Singaporeans (chinese or otherwise, although i'm quite sure he was referring to Chinese)
Back to the topic:
One of the most common behaviour of the western expats i've noticed, yes, usually westerners, is that they compare everywhere else to "home". Expats shouldn't expect everywhere else to be "like home".
I'm working in Saudi and it makes me sick to keep hearing them start a sentence with,"Back home, we do not do this. We'd... (fill in the blanks with holier-than-thou methods or ways of carrying out certain duties)"
I find that most expats are unwilling to be flexible and adapt to the environment that they are in. Instead, they expect locals to understand where they come from and the way they do things. Everything is about "me, me, me!!" Thats what puts me off sometimes.
I assume you are talking about unenlightened Indian families. My "Indian" extended family has no problem with black at all. And I've been around for two generations of marriages & births & deaths. Guess you might be talking about a specific religion rather that the so-called 'race'. There are a lot of different religions practiced in India, not just Hindu.banker wrote:The Indian culture is more complex and diverse. The black is not acceptable in most of the Indian families.Global Citizen wrote:Sierra, black is acceptable at Indian weddings.
I think that is what I meant by saying "Indian culture is more complex and diverse". We are not able to generalize as Global Citizen mentioned.sundaymorningstaple wrote:I assume you are talking about unenlightened Indian families. My "Indian" extended family has no problem with black at all. And I've been around for two generations of marriages & births & deaths. Guess you might be talking about a specific religion rather that the so-called 'race'. There are a lot of different religions practiced in India, not just Hindu.banker wrote:The Indian culture is more complex and diverse. The black is not acceptable in most of the Indian families.Global Citizen wrote:Sierra, black is acceptable at Indian weddings.
I'm not replying to all your points as some of them don't make sense but wish to highlight some facts.bigfilsing wrote:guys !!!! who gives a rats what the locals thinK. Ban us and watch the whole eeconomy dispapear up its own a&&&. Come on. Wake and smell the beans. How many thriving Singapore buisnesses are there in Europe or the states. non right ....theres a reason.
Racist no. realist yes !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Couldn't organise a piss up in a brewerey.
So freakin tired of locals explaining their self worth. Bugger off and make an actual difference !!!!! not some half arsed attempt at stealing some body elses glory.
Tricky eh !!!???
Cheers
andguys !!!! who gives a rats what the locals thinK. Ban us and watch the whole eeconomy dispapear up its own a&&&. Come on. Wake and smell the beans. How many thriving Singapore buisnesses are there in Europe or the states. non right ....theres a reason.
Racist no. realist yes !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Couldn't organise a piss up in a brewerey.
So freakin tired of locals explaining their self worth. Bugger off and make an actual difference !!!!! not some half arsed attempt at stealing some body elses glory.
Tricky eh !!!???
Cheers
and before the loacl of informed " relatively speaking" locals join in!!!!!!!!!!
How many expat employers are there looking for singaporeeans. None!!!!!!!!
You had the edge with with the Chineese language but your arogance got the better of you.
So now the chineese dont trust you and the expats think you're .......................................
Harsh but real
Live with it
earthfriendly wrote:I hear yah. It is a observation about general behaviours and not an attempt to stereotype. I shall contact my sister for the qigong contact .EADG wrote:well, sounds silly, it's just too big a place and there's too many of them to say what all of them like or dislikeearthfriendly wrote:My idea of is a bit different from Americans......Americans dislike that
timely comment given the new president.....
on a side note, you mentioned a friend's Chigong teacher, if you have more information please PM me, I want to get back into that
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