Time for the Ugly Singaporean to grow up
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Published on Apr 09, 2013 - ST Forum
IN VIEW of the increasing incidents of abusive behaviour towards health-care workers ("Protect health-care workers from abuse" by Dr Zhang Weisheng, last Thursday; and "Abuse of health-care workers on the rise", last Saturday), it is time to examine why economic progress has brought with it the emergence of the "Ugly Singaporean".
Part of the reason is that many of our children are now brought up by maids, and they lack the strong cultural milieu to cultivate codes of good conduct.
Once they grow up, they treat nurses the way they treat their maids - because they know of no other way.
When I was growing up, I was immersed in the culture and traditions of my grandparents, who made me read San Zhi Jing (Three-Character Classic), which taught Confucian morality.
My uncles and aunts told me stories from the Chinese classics of great men and heroes with outstanding conduct.
These have influenced my thinking and conduct in later life.
Now, some affluent, Westernised Singaporeans throw litter, abuse nurses and are road bullies.
Fortunately, they are a minority, but nevertheless, the trend cannot be ignored.
Singaporeans must learn to be self-disciplined and civic-minded, and respect other people, regardless of their social standing.
The other problem is that we have been brought up expecting the Government to take care of everything.
Hence, the solution to littering is to increase fines, use closed-circuit television cameras and increase policing. But what happened to self-discipline?
It is time for Singaporeans to grow up.
George Wong Seow Choon (Dr)
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three letter word sutra? can explain lay man terms?
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You will need a group of people to be role models in order to start the ball rolling.
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three letter word sutra?
Simply is how much you wanted people / nature to love you, respect you, gracious to you, you be presenting in this intrinsic trait of yours. This trait is inherently the quality of both living beings and sage. And in singapore is not as simple because of multicultural, multi-nationals living in a limited common space with maximum diversity of comfort and joys. Unfortunately, this intrinsically trait has been defiled for many decades and the revival is hindered with lack of education as confucius may be read as Chinese people way of life due to multicultural backgrounds, which in fact it is the culture of all living beings inclusive of animals :p
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Huh? What talking you, Nyorai? :lol:
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confuse...so confusing
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becos u are ugly ?
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Ugly duckling grows up as a swan.
Ugly Singaporeans grows up as.....
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Originally posted by Clivebenss:
Ugly duckling grows up as a swan.
Ugly Singaporeans grows up as.....
either Clivebenss, Mr Milo and/or Charlize...
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or like William Hung....
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Originally posted by Just_do_it_lah:
or like William Hung....
that's an ex-Honkie not Sinkie.
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no la.. kong meng is only for human, animals excluded, lao zhuang then is for all universal beings. lky adopts han fei zi methodology coz he knew kong zi way is not realistic for sgp n takes too long to c result.
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Originally posted by jlowbog:
no la.. kong meng is only for human, animals excluded, lao zhuang then is for all universal beings. lky adopts han fei zi methodology coz he knew kong zi way is not realistic for sgp n takes too long to c result.
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:lol::lol::lol: Lots of weird people
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Originally posted by Clivebenss:
Ugly duckling grows up as a swan.
Ugly Singaporeans grows up as.....
opposisiotn parties and opposition parties vvoters.yesh tim for singapore to grow up
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I think Singaporeans are beautiful but not the govt.
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A Beautiful mind :lol:
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weirdo people above...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fXS1jvCdjc
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