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

Posted: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 10:46 pm
by 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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Posted: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 9:20 am
by 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"?

Posted: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 9:34 am
by batliwala
Strong Eagle wrote: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

Posted: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 10:02 am
by spaul
Envy? Insecurity? Resentment?

Posted: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 11:20 am
by neoTheOne
may be all of them

Posted: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 2:15 pm
by Bafana
What local talent :P

Seriously the original post is just a wind up right?

Posted: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 4:17 pm
by sundaymorningstaple
He was my November Troll of the Month! See some of the other threads moved to this forum. :cool:

Posted: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 9:49 pm
by 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.... :???: :???: :???: :???: :?

Posted: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 9:59 am
by PhantomX
Left Wing wrote: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?

Posted: Mon, 01 Jan 2007 11:06 pm
by Left Wing
I am not and do not speak Tamil

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

Posted: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 3:42 pm
by 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...

Posted: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 7:32 pm
by Bafana
Kash wrote: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.

Posted: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:55 pm
by 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?

Posted: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 5:42 pm
by sundaymorningstaple
German_Expat wrote:
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.

Posted: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:43 pm
by jpatokal
sundaymorningstaple wrote:[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.