Racism in Singapore: The sequel

I didn’t expect to have such a strong reaction from Jimmy Mun, a fellow SAP graduate over my comments. My discussion with him can be found here.

I shall highlight some things I found to be interesting:

My question:

“Why can’t we have institutions where people of all races sit together in the same class and then have teachers teach about the heritage of everyone’s race all in one sitting?”

Jimmy’s reply:

“Because people dont want to. You will have to force them, with quotas, just like HDB flats, or the racial mix will never be right. Birds of a feather flock together.”

Two other quotes:

“You cant hate people you dont have to spend time and share space with.”

“I spent a total of ELEVEN years in my all boys SAP school, from Pre-Primary to Sec 4, but I had no problem befriending Malays and Indians (or girls) in JC, because I have no prior racial prejudices to speak of. In fact, I feel I have more racial prejudices today than when I was 17, as the bad experiences accumulate.”

Jimmy admitted to having racial prejudices due to accumulation of bad experiences. I do wonder such prejudices would have develop later on in his life if he had the chance to interact with other races when he was younger.

See the following 3 videos (from YouTube) to further understand my point. Thanks to my dear fianceé for providing me the information!

The first video

The second video

The last video