In laymen terms, the Indian Foreign Talents rushing into Singapore to settle down bring their caste system, ethnic and religious bias-ness with them. They can never integrate with our local Singaporean Indians. Let’s review rationally:
1. They like to congregate and mix with their own – evident from enclaves in East Coast, Punggol, Senkang, Simei, Yishun and more. Most of them are divided by their respective state lingual: Malaylam, Tamil, Hindi, Marathi and Telugu/Karnada. Most of the Indian elites and FTs are Hindi speaking, with Malayalam and Telugu next and Tamil last.
2. They brought with them strong caste and ethnic values as well as ethnic divisions as these are in-built and cultivated in them from young and by segregated communities in India. Recently, a FT group tried to petition and lobby to add Hindi as the main Singaporean Indian language as opposed to our Tamil language, which is one of our four main native languages in Singapore. Full story
