OPINION: Singapore seeing more public demonstrations - Seah Chiang Nee

Thestar.com.my, 23 Jan 2010
Singaporeans, long conditioned to a passive existence, are getting a lesson in being pushy from new arrivals who believe that laws are not everything.
NOT usually known for speaking up, people in this legalistic society have turned a bit more aggressive in fighting for their rights in public.
This is largely due to the infusion of 1.25 million foreigners in the past five years, which has partly altered the texture of society.
The outspokenness has not come from locals but foreigners who have arrived from different parts of the world with their values. Full Story