News of the premier’s announcement coupled with the population increase hardly soothed many of the jangled nerves that have had long festered since the large scale influx of foreigners over the years landing on the nation’s shores to service the nation’s complex economy and to make up for the population dearth the nation sorely lacks.Like a bad dream that has the nasty habit of turning true when one suddenly wakes up from a long slumber, the influx of foreigners has without question hardly been welcomed in the way it was intended to be.
And this is despite some of the best of propaganda machinery employed to counter negative perceptions of foreigners from the reining of xenophobia to avidly urging Singaporeans to accept foreigners and the diversity they bring. Full story
