On Race & Privilege With Chinese Singaporeans | On The Red Dot | Who We Are, What We Eat - Part 3
Musician Linying, marathoner Soh Rui Yong and politician Nicole Seah join Haresh for lunch, to talk about how the ethnic majority view race relations in Singapore.
Fresh from writing and performing the National Day Anthem for 2021, singer-songwriter Linying talks to Haresh about representation in the music industry, over a meal of Hainanese Chicken Rice.
Next, Singapore’s top marathoner, Soh Rui Yong, takes Haresh for a run, before they chow down at a British-Hainanese café. They discuss Rui Yong’s 2.4km challenge, and how ethnicity and sports are intertwined.
Finally, Haresh visits a restaurant frequented by Nicole Seah’s family. Over some Peranakan staples, they talk about Nicole’s childhood memories and the existence of Chinese privilege in Singapore.
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Loving how CNA and Haresh is starting to ask not only the HARD questions but the RIGHT questions for us as 1 United SG to move forward into the future. We are all equal .
they will NEVER talk about mayalsia and india, because they are hypocrites they promote liberalism in Singapore but promote ethnocentrism in their home countries
@@globalwarming5050 You forgot (or deliberately) to mention the Chinese in China. So why are you reaching? 😒 We are talking about Singapore. The most successful, harmonized and civilized county in Southeast Asia. It's time to live to those standards.
calling for a total expulsion of indians from entire far east
Great great video! Appreciate it Haresh and CNA
Never thought I'd give a thumbs up to a CNA production! Good job, fair reporting, good selection of interviewees, relevant questions asked, didn't feel patronized, didn't sense the otherwise usual political loading.
calling for a total expulsion of indians, africans philipinos from entire far east asap
EXCELLENT interviews!!!! The balance of topics and interviewing over a good meal without loaded language was brilliant. Great job Haresh. I'm not Singaporean but am very interested in how Singapore deals with this.
Haven't seen this dude since he ran the ministry of funny channel. Nice vid. Questions asked were great
I totally agree with Nicole Seah.. her replies are considerate and mature
Oh, i remember this song, i was using singaporean vpn at that time, and they play it over and over again as an ad.
Fascinating video. And as a Singaporean residing in Melbourne, the showcase of local food is killing me inside.
Pls drink Blech
Haresh is so hilarious. Great episode
regardless how minority am i. i still love living in singapore. u just need good job and positive circle of friends.. dats all u need to survive in singapore. my chinese friends doesnt make me feel any less like a minority..
Nico actually prefers indian privilege.
Bold topic and good work!
10:47 this British Hainan must be paying good money to the media companies even Ch 8 news featured them when talking about Hainan culture.
this was in 2021, & i remember how much i enjoyed linying's NDP song!
No please don't remove any of the races in our national song. Majority are Chinese so if its 1 malay and 1 Indian, people may feel purposely drop the Chinese. If Chinese and malay then people will feel we doesnt respect the Indian Having all 4 races is the best. So please don't change it for national day. We need to remind the people we are one regardless of race... Also hainanese are so special and rarely spoken... It feels so great to chat in hainanese when we have visitors like my bf or my sister bf. They don't understand what we are talking. My dad side grandparents reduse to let us learn dialect while growing up. Make us speak mandarin because they say school doesn't accept dialect speaking. I only learn dialect when I get older
To be in the Safe Zone in Singapore: Stay in 4 Room Flat. 2 Child. Don't Buy/Spend things beyond your means. Be contented with what you have.
Or just dont get married.
This might spur some tension. I was told that people from mainland China can get citizenship in Singapore if they do service in the army for 2 year.... is this true? Can those from Indian peninsula do that as well?
Not that easy or else singapore will be 99% Chinese lol…as chinese chinese
5:51 soooooooooooooooooooo true
Way to go Haresh! Enjoyed this episode thoroughly!
Randomness is essential in the pre programmed life
Racism can be found anywhere and everywhere. Singapore is no different. What I discovered there is that the more educated a person is, the more they try to reign in their racist inclination which is opposite to the situation in India where the higher echelons appear to be more traditional. Taking pride in one's heritage is not only normal but also a positive thing because if we are ashamed of our cultural heritage we end up trying to appropriate someone else's and in the process lose our identity without actually gaining another. However pride in one's ethnicity and culture should not lead to exclusivity which is counter productive. Culture is given to us all to enjoy and share, should never be weaponised against the other.
Singapore separated from Malaysia because Singapore didn’t want a Malay dominance. Ironically it’s happening in Singapore with Chinese throwing their weight over the minority races.
Haresh looking younger over time
Being majority always has some advantage regardless of government policies.
Exactly. We chinese work 'so hard' leh! All for some minorities to call us privileged and tell us we have an easier life in Sg?
@BlackBannerz word!
@BlackBannerz exactly It was a cunning plan
Can malaysians stop infesting in our comment like " BuT iN mALaySia LiKe ThAt, InTeRvIew iN MaLaYsIa ToO"
I am half Chinese half white. Chinese people were extremely Racist to me at the workplace. They always rejected me and got fired three times by three Chinese women, (Men hired me for the job and left the company, but it was always a Chinese woman who had issues with me), working for American companies. I knew they hated me because of how I looked, and tried everything to remove me from my job, even though my track record was good. I should have sued the companies for racial discrimination. My Asian great-grandparents came to Singapore as immigrants, worked hard and proved themselves. I deserved the same, but never got that from Chinese people, as i was always the minority. Now I live in a western nation, married to a western man, where I resemble them, and fit in with them. They accept me, are so gracious to me, and I wish I had been brought up on my western side, instead of my Asian side. Going through racism where a chinese person is your boss (and you’re a minority), and being reminded that you’re less than human, is a discriminatory, depressing, inhumane and degrading way to grow up.
Your story is fake as phuck...
What western side? Do you mean such as the Neo-naz! and KIu KIax KIan? I don't recall Chinese have hate groups like those who have your skin color.
You are a common denominator of the situation .. the problem must be you 🙄
I hate to say this but I think its more to do with your gender more than it has to do with your racial mix. More accurately, I think those women see you as a threat to them (in whatever way), as irrational as it may seem. You have to understand that Singapore has gone from third world country to what it is now in only 50 years and it shows in some of the ways Singaporeans carry themselves and react. I leave it up to you to find out why.
You sure they had issues with you because your race, not your attitude? If someone under me act superior in front of me because they got half White blood&looks like White I would kick them out regardless how their records are. Of course it could be other reasons as well, but to me it sounds like you are being a bitch. "I knew they hated me because of how I looked, and tried everything to remove me from my job, even though my track record was good." Is that how you came up with the Chinese are racist conclusion? Because you "knew" it? You are the common denominator of the situation, if you think everyone is racist, that means you are a racist. "being reminded that you’re less than human, is a discriminatory, depressing, inhumane and degrading way to grow up." These are very strong words, I don't get how you can just say that. You think racist issue is a cheap topic? Blaming your own failures on racism is not only just bs, but very offending to Chinese people.
Might as well say Malay privilege, having separate religion laws, Education at a heavily subsidised rate and so on. Read on article 152,
I’m also a Hainanese we are united
As an ang moh married to a Chinese Singaporean, gosh I miss all of the food and even an ice cold glass of Sarsi & even a glass of Tiger in one of our local hawkers around Tampines or Punggol.
As a Viking I miss sailing the seas and hearing the thundery drum of lightning by Thor in the skies
Such an amazing series !
wow.
I am a Chinese Singaporean. The only Chinese privileges I enjoyed in Sg is that when I walk out from my flat, I feel “comforted” seeing many Chinese that I don’t feel left out. It likes the Malays having the same feeling in Geylang Serai or Indians in Little India. Another privilege is the ease of access to Chinese food. Other than that, I struggle to make a living like other Singaporeans be they Chinese, Malay, Indians etc.
Historically, privileged people have not be able to see their own privileges. Things which are considered a privilege for the minority would be things you feel entitled to have. You've not faced racism in your life. So maybe try to emphathize?
Well said. "Chinese Privilege" is over emphasized.
@@sripriyasureshkumar9126 Thanks for sharing your input. May i know then what are the events you have faced as a minority which perhaps can spread more awareness in regards to racism in singapore? What are the "Things" you considered a privileges for privileged people ?
privileged people think they struggle equally as other minorities. but you need to realise the Chinese in Singapore will always have an advantage in employment and opportunities over the Malays and Indians.
@@sripriyasureshkumar9126 I agree, I live in the US and it's just as blatantly obvious that privilege exist. The only difference is that its white people that have it and not so much Asians, Blacks, and Latinos.
Nicole Seah has really strong points. Tokenism is not the way to go.
I’m Indian. My 6 yr old is wary of playing with Chinese kids after being made fun of or ostrasized while playing at the playground & prefers to play with Malay & Indian kids. I try to encourage her to play with all races but she tells me she doesn’t want to keep feeling bad about herself. Can’t say I blame her. 30 odd years ago I was chased away from the playground by Chinese kids who threw sand at me. Not much has chnaged after all these years.
Its not our fault okay? Its totally not our fault. Stop blaming others for your shortcomings we work 'so hard'
@@privilegedsgboomerstan1433 Work so hard doesn't give our Chinese people the right to discriminate or shun other races. We must encourage integration and interracial marriage. By upholding the cultural extremism, this is considered a disgrace to the entire Chinese community. I am Chinese Teochew born in 70s. But my family are not the racist kind. They are very well mannered and highly educated.
@@Prometheus574 i think you don't get that person's sarcasm
@BlackBannerz hehe oops don't expose me leh
@BlackBannerz how could we have taken your land without lying? Hehe
I feel like eating hainanese curry rice now
same
Is Peranakan a mixing among Chinese and Malays?
I think the use of the term 'Chinese privilege' is the main issue when it comes to continuing the conversation. This term is more of a borrowed term, which disregards the historical and systematic issues in the US, when they talk about White privilege. In Singapore, the situation is quite different. When the term 'Chinese privilege' was first used in discussions, I've had older friends, who are Chinese, who had to struggle with very different problems, and thus would feel hurt towards the usage of terms like 'Chinese privilege' because they felt that they were already put in difficult situations previously, and the 'privilege' is not true to them.
We are talking about the systematic privilege so they shouldn't have felt that way because the Chinese in Malaysia feel exactly like the minorities in Singapore. Come and live for a while in Malaysia and they will understand this issue perfectly. If any country in Southeast Asia that can set an example for equality within society regardless of race, gender, religion, sexuality etc., it's Singapore.
@@ashashraa6579 perhaps I wasn't being very clear in my previous comment. I have some older colleagues and friends who felt that they were shortchanged in the past, despite being Chinese (majority race in SG), because they studied in Chinese-medium schools (before 1970s). Many of them had to struggle with learning the English language to keep up with the changes Singapore government made, to try to be more equal systematically. I have also known those who studied in the previous Nanyang University (Chinese-medium University), whose degree was not recognized in Singapore. Some ended up as taxi drivers or doing odd jobs, while others who were able to afford, left Singapore to get another degree in elsewhere before coming back again. My own professor in NTU several years ago had to redo her degree in Taiwan. To people like them, the term 'Chinese Privilege' is like another slap.
@@jadepg1989 thanks for bringing a side which younger Singaporeans like me don't know
@@jadepg1989 Yes the speak mandarin campaign would actually be detrimental to those who took it seriously at the expense of English. Those who are good in Chinese ended up facing problems in their career
For what it's worth, I think the concept of 'white privilege' is widely misunderstood among both Americans, and foreigners who've been introduced to the concept. White privilege doesn't mean that all white people have easy lives, that no white people are poor, or victims of government oppression, or any number of other problems. What it means is that being part of the default template of society makes day to day life less stressful, representing, effectively, a floor of social status that white people don't fall below. White privilege is about not being conscious of one's whiteness all or most of the time, where people of color in America almost always are conscious of not being white in majority white communities/interactions.
hainan used to be affiliated to Canton province
As Mr LKY mentioned the circumstances of races in America. The White got sirloin steak the colours got the breadcrumbs from leftovers on the plate. At the end of the day, the colours will fight back very hard for equality. Look at the Chinese Malaysians who left for good in the past 30 years, that can tell the situation of equal opportunity in Malaysia between the mainstream society and minorities. Those people left for good were elite of the society, they were the precious stones of Malaysia to build this country.
True. After almost a whole generation of such a strategic HR loss, little do successive Malaysian govts realize, even now, just how serious it has become giving away the handicap to especially the rest of ASEAN. It explains a big part of Malaysia's relative stagnation. The other being it's affirmative action for their majority Bumis which has gradually eroded the country's competitive edge. These things feed off each other, a vicious cycle, degenerating an entire nation and its people. It is fundamentally toxic, shooting themselves in the foot.
Same in Singapore. The Malays/Muslims gets the bread crumbs. Singapore is a Racist Country. Malays/Muslims become Grab drivers or food delivery guys. Only Chinese benefit the most
I would say that Asians get more than " breadcrumbs " in the United States. Even the darkest East Indian can get jobs at the tech firms and usually it goes two ways American born he or she will make equal to Whites or far more than Whites in a company, especially when they learn all they can and open their own corporations. Foreign born come from India on HB-1 Visa and may make less at first, but then they too leave and open their own businesses which later become corporations. I learned this in College in the 1980s. An East Indian making $ 50 000 US a month at a US company opens a family run company making $250,000US a month! In the Tech fields White Males take the executive, leadership or creative roles in the jobs unless that company was started by Asians. African Americans can get tech skills but can't get up or in these corporations let alone create their own. They get the crumbs and the kicks too the head figuratively speaking.
this discussion is about singapore. ffs. please stop bring other country into your own discussion or problem.
More or less people of the mainstream society in some western countries are resting on their laurels, as Johnny- come- lately, who works hard in his or her new environment. This has already happened in America, Australia, UK even nordic countries.
8:34 LEGEND Runsohfast …..
So refreshing hearing a discussion on race that doesnt focus on white people although a bit too much time was focused on food rather than the actual topic. my experiences in singapore was mostly surprise at how large the indian population was, and my best memory was the food in little india. i do recall most of the advertising posters in the airport, on the train and the streets featuring chinese looking people though.
True nowadays the media make it seem like only the white people have racial attitudes, all races have it and more have to be educated to treat each other with humanity and basic kindness/civility. There are good people also in all races who dont mistreat others.
@@rejectionistmanifesto8836 Its a very sad asian thing to hate westerners when in fact we have more to learn than reject from them, vice versa with us eastern countries.
@@griefer3454 so many people want to be treated with kindness but never extend that to people of other races, religions....etc. Many times these people's own family can't even stand them.
Lin Ying is cute. 😆😆 Nicole Seah too
Linying do look alike her grandma.
If can plz do real stories from Malaysia also ....from majority to minorities .... So many topics have . Plz do research in Malaysia as well . Tq .
Malaysia is a racist country principled along the lines of Ketuanan Melayu Islam.
4 heavenly kings curry rice 😎😎😎😎
Ang Mohs have too much privilege in Sg. Called talent for no reason, classified as talent for doing nothing and delivering nothing, promoted becoz of reinforcing discrimination. If Sg wants to be a fair and equal society these notions needs to be crushed and punished.
The drastic change to a dramatic music at 14:01 is a bit much.
Have you looked into Malaysia?? I only lived there for 4mths and the different ways the govt treated malay, chinese-malay & indian-malay was honestly shocking
Eh hallo people talk about Singapore not Malaysia ...
We arent talking about Msia, this is about Spore
Stick to the topic of this episode. This is about Singapore!
im curious, how do they treat them differently?
bodoh we talking about singapore not malaysia ofc there would be majority privilege like Chinese privilege in sg and malay / muslim privilege in malaysia etc
After a staff promotion exercise in our corporation, many of us were disappointed. But what can we say, SG is based on meritocracy or performance appraisals, right? So most of us accepted it. An Indian colleague however stepped up to the management and accused them of racism that he was not promoted because of his race. Strangely, he was provisionally granted the next salary grade subject to 6-month probation - at least some reward for his pains! Our Indian colleague is more vocal and ready to exploit the racism sensitivities in Singapore to advance his own personal interests. The rest of us not promoted - Chinese and Malay - just swallowed the bitter pill and accepted our "meritocratic appraisals". The point here is allegations of racisms can also be a weapon used to UNFAIRLY advance one's self-interests. This is especially so in our society that is afraid of being accused as racist.
Indians love caste-based politics. They will not stop exploiting racial sensitivities until they install themselves as the highest caste. Then, they want no social mobility so they stay there, and the organization stagnates and suffocates under bureaucracy like their home country.
@@wanghui562 Like Nicole Seah said, it is easy to use a blanket term to explain one person's shitty behaviour. Using a blanket phrase "Indians love caste-based politics ...they will not stop exploiting..." is wrongly attributing ONE DUDE'S cheebai attitude in exploiting racial sensitivities to an entire race. Let's just call out ONE guy for his cheebai attitude. No need to transfer his cheebai-ness to other people :) There will always be cheebai people in this world, we just need to sieve them out and correct them, no matter the race.
@@Gehslol There it is, the rhetoric game begins. We are not talking about an “attitude,” we are talking about an action, an action that ruins meritocracy for all. All meritocratic processes can become just for show if some members do not subscribe to the spirit or meritocracy with the same seriousness, and act accordingly. Just look at how their home country ended up to get an idea of where their culture leads.
This is what is always being exercised in Malaysia, hence they will always be a Malay first country.
@@wanghui562 In one sector - security guards - where Indians (including many Indian Malaysians) are entrenched, I've heard anecdotes of lesser educated Chinese who end up as security guards feeling disadvantaged. They often get shift assignments shunned by their Indian colleagues, and ridiculed by their Indian supervisor for their poor English competency.
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Singapore seems to be the most advanced nation in Asia when it comes to ethnic and racial issues. Good for them. And yes, I know it’s pretty easy to do better than Japan and China lol.
That's the hilarious part about all of the this. The most notorious western country for racism would explode with outrage if migrant workers for forced to stay in their dorms most of the time due to covid despite being vaccinated. Or apartments advertised "No Indians." it'd be national outrage in America if that happened in Mississippi or Newark.
I think we as a nation are progressing very well with our racial harmony compared to many other nations , however there is a very slight bias privilege towards the Chinese , such as celebration of Chinese New year the only race which has a celebration of their culture compared to religious celebrations
Chinese Taoists and Buddhists do partake in religious practices too during the CNY
You do know that when holidays were first decided in SG, it was based on race right? CNY had two days, Hari Raya for Malays has 2 days and Deepavali and Vesak were for Indians for 2 days. That was how it was established back in the day. To call it privilege shows your ignorance. And also, isn’t culture related to religion as well? Most Malay cultures are intertwined with their religion because the majority is Muslim.
@@PokeTwilight omg jie jie I also love kpop like u leh all that plastic skin just turns me on so much I cannot get enough of watching them liao. Jie jie how you so smart ah?
@@PokeTwilight no brains
@@PokeTwilight ug lee
They just want more and more benefits, suggest giving Singapore to them.
It takes forever. LOL. Mindsets don't change fast for the majority who continue to look down on the minority. I am minority of the minority. I got it bad even from the minority races which were larger than mine. I gave up. Just switched off and didn't bother making friends. Became an introvert and enjoyed my time with books and computer technology. But I didn't let that stop me from marrying a nice Chinese girl and having very close Chinese friends later in life albeit just a handful.
omg it’s me
There is 1.8 million china people in Singapore
While I agree her point, token representation does not help. I disagree, token candidates show kids that their group/religion/gender is represented, that creates the fire to follow suit. So, tokenism does work.
How so? I'm all for hiring a person of a diverse racial group if they are held to the same standards. But if we let someone in just because they are of that colour, there is a soft bigotry that you think that they cannot rise to the challenge to meet the standard set.
I had a chi best frn jrg ite. i wud call him Hey cina. and he wud call me hey melayu. and our joke is really racist joke. Meng Wai (AhWai) Jurong ITE if you saw this comment msg me here its been 22 yrs since i met u. i still got yur old pic tho.
Nice.
We would crack racist jokes among us, Indians Chinese Malays. "U Know why China has the largest population in the world and Chinese seem to be everywhere"‽ Instantly replied by the Chinese dude, "Because the Chinese are the greatest fu*kers in the world"! Immediately a rejoinder from the Indian friend, "But the Indians are catching up". Sighed the Malay fellow, "I guess the Malays should take more Viagra". In short, no-hold bars among us . . . .
@@justscanningby9902 Thats the malay secret. We malay also known as Austronesian is wide spread and do you know polynesian also share our genes. lol so we malay are many too.
I'm a simple person. I see Nicole Seah, I click Like.
Is there any Malay piloted a fighter jet in SAF?
It seems there is one piloting an F-15. Another is a trainer for helicopter trainee pilots
Have but can count with 2 hands
Back in army, this issue was discussed by my CO, there is no system in place barring them from high clearance jobs, it's just that for high clearance jobs, people dig really really deep for criminal records of family members and expanded family members, so malays which traditionally have larger families are disadvantaged on that sense. One problem is that people tout it as a form of systemic racism, causing malays to not sign on to high clearance jobs in the first place
@@kennethlow2642 thanks for the interesting perspective. I am a Singaporean Chinese, did my 2 years in infantry and didn't have clearance for armskote. I always thought it might be due to the fact that my paternal grandfather, who was born in Malaysia, was a MPAJA guerilla during the Malayan emergency. If what your CO said is accurate, that might be the reason why. Having said that, I don't feel shortchanged, didn't envy the armskote man's job and was not interested in being part of commandos and divers, guardsmen and ADF are where the underdogs are!
@@kennethlow2642 The army issue could be a legacy issue from LKY times. This i not very sure just heard plenty of rumors that LKY didn’t trust the local minorities because in the event of differences with our neighboring countries he was concerned about them betraying sg. How true is that I do not know but there have been such rumors going around.
How about 'Chinaman's burden'? I think it wasn't talked about enough
Uh never heard of that…is it okay if you elaborate?
@@legend9872 It’s the racist policy of Malaysia lasts till this very day, Singapore was kicked out of Malaysia because the Malays don’t want to deal with Chinese people.
@@Marc-. as a Malaysian...I can somewhat confirm that...
I was bullied when I was the only chinese in my secondary school soccer team until I had to quit. What Chinese privilege? Go and compare CDAC, Mendaki and Sinda grants and funding from the government. What privilege is that?
Minority people have privileged. Majority Chin. have to give up language just to have peace
Liar. You gave it up and learnt english to earn more money
Personally having born and lived here in SG all my life and seeing the west and many regional countries have much worse problems than us when it comes to racial harmony i would say we are still way better at managing frictions or tensions when they pop up. Ok lah atleast you guys want to talk things sensible then Nvmind. Go ahead and discuss will take this compared to hostile western media poking nose and weaponizing issues to stir tensions and fractured/destabilise the society. Look we may not be 100 percent perfect and we can strive to do better but don't risk and forget what we have achieved so far that many countries find it impossible to do.
Of course your gonna support your own country :) Good little citizen arent ya?!
@@bangtongkat6821 if he don't support his own country, then who should he support then? Malaysia? Indonesia? Vietnam?.....
Just because relations might be worse in other places doesn't mean we shouldn't try to improve. Have you considered that the current state of things comes at a cost and it's not sustainable to constantly sweep things under the rug?
@@fafafifufu He gave no basis at all, not from a factual standpoint. My point was it was uncalled for and very Ultra-nationalistic of him. Which makes sense considering he comes from an Authoratarian State.
they will NEVER talk about mayalsia and india, because they are hypocrites they promote liberalism in Singapore but promote ethnocentrism in their home countries
Nicole Seah almost 2 years on haha
As long as the Chinese in Singapore do not think they're AngMo.
Privilege comes in many ways; Your race, attractiveness, education, IQ, your physical capacity (or do you have any disabilities_, where you are born, who you are born to, etc. Focusing on race alone makes you ignorant of the reality of how fortunate we are being born in Singapore. Yes, discrimination should be addressed. But to push for equality of outcome will be the downfall of Singapore.
when you have been privileged all life equality seems unfair
@@spots- that's the fact of life. We are all dealt a pair of hands. Are you going to play it to the best of your abilities, or complain all day?
@@yyy-pz3sz so you don’t want to solve the issues and claim people should just suffer and accept their fate ? and not change to ensure no one suffer , you lack empathy maybe when u suffer in your next life you will understand
@@spots- ? op just said we should address discrimination
@@spots- duh, you always like to compare ur life to others, if you want to help go ahead dont impose your idea on others
We're all EQUAL. It's 2021 already, come on!
calling for a total expulsion of indians , philipinos and africans from entire far east
The non-Chinese Singaporeans too have problems with their low self-esteem and inferiority complex. I met those with inferiority complex wished there's discrimination law on the Chinese so there won't be much competition for them.
hehe clever sneaky uncle
yes because we all over achiever. things like cerebral palsy intellectual disability does not exist among us! we are so special hehe yes uncle preach! that's why minority so jealous! you so smart uncle! Imagine if you become minister the whole country will perish
Chinese privilege? It's existed since. Just look at the crew of SIA, sparsely scattered with handful of Malay or if you're lucky indians. Tourist board of singapore promotes another Chinese city. Thank God the National Anthem of singapore is in bahsa Melayu. I live in Europe, when I mention I'm from Singapore, they're are baffled. Why I don't look Chinese and they think singapore is part of China. Thanks to the constant promotion of Chinese privilege.
In China, Singapura is known as little brother.
@RanStuff "raised in Canada" BC?
I would use the term majority privilege or advantage. If Sg was majority another race i believe the term would change to xxx(race) privilege.
@RanStuff read back your "I'm Chinese, born in China raised in Canada.. My family lived in Singapura quite sometime".
calling for a total expulsion of indians , philipinos and africans from entire far east
15:34 , well let’s be frank we all thought of WP MP Raeesah Khan .(she is the youngest MP to be elected )
Raeesah is youngest fraudster to be elected.
@@cnachopchopnewsagency your username is so funny ,you deserve a sub
@@tanjoy0205 haha, thanks!
@@cnachopchopnewsagency Will you do a skit where a person protest fir a stupid reason but immediately gets arrested ?
4:40
I miss the local food so much
Nicole wants his 😊
Can we remove the race quota on bidding for hawker stalls. Chinese food stalls are so many times more expensive.
Ade jugak race quota
Empty British restaurant, just like the pre-Covid time.
OK I stand corrected about Singapore as the only country implementing affirmative action for minority races. Taiwan, too, treat their aboriginal communities favourably. Not to be outdone, mainland China enforces population control without exception on their Han majority but not on their other ethnicities. In fact, minority races in China also gain far easier access to university education based on deliberately more benign admission policies!
But society complains about the Uighurs say it's is Islam, but there are other Muslims in China that are not being re educated
@@pmccoy5511 Intentional misreporting. Uygyur are oppresssed because of the same reason CCP is oppressing Hong Kong, Tibet and Taiwan. Not because of any religious reason. It's obviously not true when muslim students have been getting their degrees from CH universities, no problem. So it must be because Uygyur people reject the CCP. Don't believe the western media. Their habit is misreporting, controlling narrative. It's intentional. Get closest to the primary sources as possible.
See this is so great. We can be so dumb and yet get so much money and jobs. If people say chinese privilege, just say how about malaysia lor? Hehe
Like how we use words like affirmative action so freely without even knowing the meaning. Hahaha we are so privileged! Oops.. we are not sorry!
@@privilegedsgboomerstan1433 - you sir are a class act 😂🔥🙏
Hope the women here inside this episode knows who they are and accept ,.continues unless they hated being chinese.
Racial discrimination Is happening every where in Singapore.
calling for a total expulsion of indians ,philipinos and africans from entire far east
If Nicole is a peranakan, her mother tongue is Malay and Hokkien. What does Mandarin have to do with being a Chinese? Her ancestral lineage is older than most local Mandarin speaking Chinese people including her school teacher
Mandarin is used as a common tongue among Chinese people. There are many Chinese dialects (like Hokkien, Hainanese, Cantonese, Teochew, Hakka, etc.) and a common tongue is needed to unite all them. I am Hokkien and my Cantonese and Hakka friends may have difficulty understanding me if I were to speak Hokkien to them. Same goes if they were to speak Hakka or Cantonese to me. This is why all Chinese people will learn Mandarin instead of their dialects. This is basically what Lee Kuan Yew did by introducing Mandarin and removing dialects in schools for Chinese people.
@@inumusha7108 tell to all of Hong Kong that they are not Chinese people.
Mandarin literally means Official Chinese spoken in imperial court. It's the lingua franca not only in Commie China but also Taiwan. In Sg, early Chinese immigrants, peranakan or not, were mostly illiterate, only knew hometown dialects. The literate ones would know Mandarin, coz the written form is the same for Chinese language. As education increases, naturally the progression to Standard Chinese. Same in Malaysia too, even without govt mandated language policy. HK is a little different, it was British colony, English is official language.
@@pluto9870 in Ming dynasty. Cantonese & Hokkien are older than Mandarin.
@@YusufDjuly Mandarin and all dialects are derived from Middle Chinese, just that Mandarin became lingua franca in Ming dynasty. Thus, the name Mandarin-spoken by official in courts. But that's not relevant to the point we're talking abt.
CNA goes woke!
Please lah these episodes were touch and go to trigger thought and open logical pathways in your brain.Of course very nicely done and appreciate the effort by CNA and Harish.I like that the term blackie was mentioned.Many indians got called this growng up.Regarding minority we forgot one group most under represented in media and govt.The Indian female who is a powerhouse.
Wtf. You spend some much time talking about nothing. Skip
Privilege? Singapore was built by Chinese and is successful because of it. Just look at Malaysia.
Only in Singapore is there such a thing as positive discrimination for minorities! I recall LKY ever saying in a speech that when there was conflict of land utilization between a Chinese community and a Muslim group intent on building a mosque on the site, he had over-ruled in favour of the latter. Despite being minorities, the Indians have two public holidays in Deepavali and Vesak same as that for Malays - Hari Raya Puasa and Hari Raya Haji. Despite being the overwhelming majority, Chinese too have only two public holidays during the Chinese New Year. In fact, the SG government have less qualms about moving against the majority race such as decisively banning festive firecrackers or closing Nanyang University as a Chinese-medium University. No other country in the world is kinder to their minority populations!
Singapura is so gracious, giving the original inhabitants of the land 2 days public holiday for their religious festival.
vesak is not indian public holidays wtf vesak day celebrated by buddisht
有一些人每次被人家欺负, 我说了，多数人跟从少数人
Slit eye
First
would you say you are an arrogant person? i would say that im humble enough to know what i can and cannot do.. LOL apparently not humble enough to know what not to say to not get sued
The only privilege a person has is off being rich , stop tribalism
Yes... Chinese as a small minority in other country... some of the majorities also say that the minority have Chinese prievelage...
@@caocao8200 what r u talking abt?
Have you considered both class and race can strongly impact a person's life chances? And class privilege has always been intertwined with race in Singapore. Also if you care about greater socioeconomic inequality you should also care about racial inequality??
@@Naomi-fb1ej To me if you solve socioeconomic inequality usually the racial inequality takes care of itself. Because our society is run by economics solving socioeconomic would solve most problems.
@@skydragon23101979 What do you mean by solving socioeconomic inequality though? Also, when there is any type of other prejudice against a community (be it a racial community or by gender etc), eventually differences in economic opportunity will be replicated along those lines.
To ALL BLACKS…plainly claiming that only your kind is allowed to be PM (based on some survey) regardless of qualifications must be the height of meritocracy to you 😂
Ceca privilege
Hehe yes good to shift the attention
We are not privileged anymore le Indians are more privileged nowadays.
What is Chinese privilege in Sg?
Employment is one example. there are still a few company that prefers to employ the Chinese over the other ethnic groups. these companies will disguise their racist employment practices by quoting "mandarin speaking preferred". a friend of mine who is of mixed blood, Malay-mom, Chinese-dad once applied for a secretarial job. as her dad is Chinese, she adopted her paternal surname KOH in her birth cert. during the job interview, the interviewee was shocked to see a hijab wearing, Malay looking girl in the interview room. the interviewee kept asking my friend if she is really Chinese because she doesn't look like one. my friend had to convince the interviewee that she can speak Mandarin fluently because she speaks to her dad in Mandarin at home. cut story short. my friend rejected the job offer because she felt that the interviewee appeared racist just because she did not look like the stereotypical Chinese person.
halifi sarif u meant interviewer?
@@fafafifufu the friend was offered the job?
@@jimw8615 oops my bad! thanks for correcting!
@@junelee6643 she was offered but... in a not so pleasant way. the interviewer kept asking my friend if she is comfortable working in an all Chinese environment and if she is ok that there is no other malay than herself? my friend told off the interviewer that all her relatives on her father's side are Chinese and she has many close Chinese friends and relatives? before walking off she highlighted to the interviewer that she was actually more uncomfortable with the interview than the job environment.
Go to Malaysia and talk about malay
This is Singapore. Know that.
Go china and talk Chinese Your National anthem Chinese ?
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Nicole seah should have been a better option than Raesah khan
Nicole Seah, you mean!
@@sidewalkslam oh yes sorry typo!!
We Chinese have to pay more than other races to live in Singapore. We pay more for HDB flats, education and others. So where is the Chinese privilege?
We dont pay more for education, flats, or (WHAT is others?). Where did you get this information from? I have heard of this rubbish myth since kingdom come and it just sounds like some super petty dude spread unwarranted rumours.
When we buy 2nd hand HDB flat we pay more. School fees we pay in full. We pay more taxes too. What I write is my experience. I am not petty. Ask around you will see alot of ppl feel like me.
@Jessica Mong I think if you see it as majority advantage or privilege you would understand it better. Because we Chinese are the majority we tend to have more options compared to the minorities.
@@jessicamong1586 if u want to pay less go to china 🇨🇳 and live with your own kind Singapore natives are malays and not chinese
@BlackBannerz Didn’t you know that in the early days chinese have kids that can form football teams? It’s only when government intervened with 2 child policy that the number of kids came down?
What about White privilege in Singapore work places :(
@RanStuff Yeah why don't they hire white people in Blue collars jobs
@Léopold van Aubel They need diversity in Blue collars works.
Yeah like they will want to give up their privilege to level the playing field
Chinese is an ethnicity not a race
No it's not. Han is an ethnicity, Chinese is the race
@@muhammadsuhairi7510 no Asian is the race Japanese Korean han Chinese Mongolian filipino Vietnamese malay Javanese all same race they look same
@@shehzadchowdhury8327 japanese, korean, chinese are mongoloid... while the Malays, Indonesia and filipino are austronesian.. totally different race and definitely different look... its like saying indian and african are the same race because they look the same
@@shehzadchowdhury8327 Yes Han Chinese is an ethnicity.
But Han Chinese is a language group but the Indians and the Dravidians are race and ethncity
Any existence of Chinese priv has nothing over long lasting white priv in Singapore. Do white English make majority of citizen? Nope. Yet English is primary language bc English white colonialism in india Singapore and Malaysia. English have since left. Yet their primary cultural influence remain through the use of English language. Now everyone is defending English. That’s the power of centuries of white colonialism. It’s effect is ever lasting deep into post colonial societies. No one bats an eye about any of this. And the moment a local non white non English culture aka Chinese starts to regain dominance in its local historical region we all suddenly take issue. How very ironic and actually sad. Speaks volume of the still existing power of white English hegemony.
The British Raj Colonists killed ten of millions of Dravidians yet the Indians still worship the British hahaha. Colonial mentality at its finest.
Who's historical region is this?
This region never belonged to you people.
Leave and never come back
Balik cina
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If Singapore import talent based purely on merit instead of race or ethnicity, our population will become 95% Chinese. So be careful what you wish for.
Hehe yes
Cuz can make merit = race when inviting chinese here BUT merit > race for others. And we hide our double standards so well hehe
Chinese, Indian Singapore? This 2 is immigrants and still immigrants even they are born here. For malay is different because they are land loard for this country and this is what Chinese and Indian try not to let their children know the truth history even minister government not shameful to said Singapore is not malay country because most of the ministers in Singapore is immigrants. Maybe their god already promise them this land few thousand years ago same like israel declare Palestine is their country promise by their god few thousand years ago. Very very shameful when someone forgets their roots and the same time deny facts. 😢😢😢