What's so talented about the foreign talents in Singapore?

[Gorba]

Can you people share with us the good/poor performance of foreign talents working with you in your area of profession?

This thread is to sample "our" foreign talents' work, in order to help us appreciate or condem them as a whole or individually.

Please don't name names and don't make it personal.
Just say what you saw and say it clearly, please.

Best regards,
Gabriel (CG) pronounced "gaaabreeel" not "gaybreal".
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[Strong Eagle]

Why don't we ask the same questions of local talent "in order to help us appreciate or condem them as a whole or individually"?

[batliwala]

Why don't we ask the same questions of local talent "in order to help us appreciate or condem them as a whole or individually"?

Yeah very true SE..... I don't know what Gaybreal stands to gain doing this survey.


batli

[spaul]

Envy? Insecurity? Resentment?

[neoTheOne]

may be all of them

[Bafana]

What local talent

Seriously the original post is just a wind up right?

[sundaymorningstaple]

He was my November Troll of the Month! See some of the other threads moved to this forum.

[Left Wing]

for local talent never to dare disagree with xpat boss....and suffer quietly Envy, Insecurity, Resentment.........

BTW local talent thinks all of India speaks Tamil coz local Singaporeans of Indian origin speak in Tamil....

Born in Singapore but still call your self chinese,malay,indian....

[PhantomX]

for local talent never to dare disagree with xpat boss....and suffer quietly Envy, Insecurity, Resentment.........

BTW local talent thinks all of India speaks Tamil coz local Singaporeans of Indian origin speak in Tamil....

Born in Singapore but still call your self chinese,malay,indian....

Lets not get into this... btw as a matter of interest are you tamil?

[Left Wing]

I am not and do not speak Tamil

PhantomX...what did i say so wrong...care to expand on it

[Kash]

I think it seems like a harmless post and all of us are over-reacting...if you don wish to part-take in this blokes post then don..instead of posting childish remarks about the locals and tarnishing the reputation of the other foreigners here...

[Bafana]

I think it seems like a harmless post and all of us are over-reacting...if you don wish to part-take in this blokes post then don..instead of posting childish remarks about the locals and tarnishing the reputation of the other foreigners here...

Looks like we are not the only ones prone to over reacting.

[German_Expat]

Born in Singapore but still call your self chinese,malay,indian....

Ask a Singaporean what race he/she is and you will be told Malay, Cinese, Indian, etc....... Ask that same person what nationality are you and you will be told Singaporean..... get the difference?

[sundaymorningstaple]

Born in Singapore but still call your self chinese,malay,indian....

Ask a Singaporean what race he/she is and you will be told Malay, Cinese, Indian, etc....... Ask that same person what nationality are you and you will be told Singaporean..... get the difference?

Not quite right. Normally if you ask a Singaporean what they are they will normally respond with "I am a Singaporean Chinese, Singaporean Indian or Singaporean Malay." As opposed to "I am a Chinese Singaporean, etc., etc.

The usage of the Citizenship as an adjective instead of the noun also gives rise to the thoughts that this is why this will never be a homogeneous society until they start thinking as themselves as Singaporeans FIRST and not RACE first. You normally will hear Americans refer to themselves as Americans. If they do include their ethnicity it is usually used as an adjective and not a noun.

[jpatokal]

[The usage of the Citizenship as an adjective instead of the noun also gives rise to the thoughts that this is why this will never be a homogeneous society until they start thinking as themselves as Singaporeans FIRST and not RACE first. You normally will hear Americans refer to themselves as Americans. If they do include their ethnicity it is usually used as an adjective and not a noun.

Give it some time -- this little red dot's only been here for 40 years, and the differences to the north of the border are already pretty striking.