games for New Citizens , NS for Singaporeans

It’s all about “new citizens” and “integration” nowadays which have been making the headlines in the Singapore press.

Coming after the footsteps of Bukit Batok grassroots organizations which will be organizing a “Water Festival” for foreigners, another pseudo-PAP organization Southwest CDC has launched a game show aimed at helping “new and local citizens learn more about Singapore.”

According to Channel News Asia, the “Integrate Singapore Quiz” was developed by the Southwest Community Development Council to “integrate” new and local citizens.

It was not revealed where and how the game show will be conducted.

Though it was not mentioned explicitly, it is likely that the funds for developing and hosting the game show will come from the mega $10 million Community Integration Fund unveiled last year by the Minister of Community, Youth and and Sports Dr Vivian Balakrishnan.

The fund will be disbursed to various community and grassroots organizations to organize events such as seminars, game shows and language classes to promote “integration” between the new and old citizens.

Due to the PAP’s liberal immigration and pro-foreigner policies, foreigners now make up 36 percent of Singapore’s population, up from 14 percent in 1990. Of the remaining 64 percent who are citizens, an increasing number are born overseas.

The Home Affairs Ministry revealed that there were nearly 60,000 PRs and 20,000 new citizens last year.

Two out of every three Singapore PR applicants are successful, an astonishingly high success rate for a developed nation. Some of the PRs are granted within a few months. There is no minimal period of residency to qualify for PR unlike in other countries.

As too many foreigners, many of whom are unable to speak English are allowed into Singapore within too short a period of time, it is a near impossible task to integrate all of them now.

Confronted with an intractable problem, the PAP chose to throw money at it in the hope that it will somehow be resolved.

The onus is on the immigrants to learn how to adapt and integrate into Singapore society instead of the other way round.

Taxpayers’ monies should never be used to cover up for the PAP’s disastrous mistakes or to fund such useless social events to make the new citizens feel at home.

They have few incentives to reach out to other Singaporeans as there are simply too many of their compatriots here that they tend to congregate within their own communities.

The freebies and goodies given out by these grassroots organizations will only attract those seeking free food or perks who lack the interest or committment to “integrate” themselves, thereby defeating their original purposes.

The most crucial step in the integration process begin right at the very first step in the selection of prospective migrants and not now when they are already allowed to settle in Singapore.

The PAP has screwed up Singapore’s immigration policies badly and as usual, it will get away again with impunity thanks to the state-controlled media which has been busy of late trying to “showcase” its efforts in “integrating” the new citizens.