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I was so impressed by Singapore's cleanliness, greenery and order. However, if you move away from the glitz and glammer of the "crazy rich Asians" of the the main city, it is another story.
Indians make up 9.1% of Singapore's 3.9-million resident population. In Singapore, “Indians” refers to all those perceived to be of South-Asian descent. There is much discrimination within the property market where Indians are only second to the Chinese as the least preferred tenants.
We had a lovely vegetarian meal at an Indian restaurant there but then unfortunately witnessed a fight between a young man and the owner which ended in the police and ambulance arriving after the very angry young man punched the old owner in the face.
It made us think that we were very glad he was not carrying a gun as is the case in some countries. His friends tried to calm him but he turned on them. It was bad enough that he only had his fists -his temper and extreme anger over getting the order wrong resulted in his total loss of control.
Little India-Singapore Contrasts DSC_2682
I was so impressed by Singapore's cleanliness, greenery and order. However, if you move away from the glitz and glammer of the "crazy rich Asians" of the the main city, it is another story.
Indians make up 9.1% of Singapore's 3.9-million resident population. In Singapore, “Indians” refers to all those perceived to be of South-Asian descent. There is much discrimination within the property market where Indians are only second to the Chinese as the least preferred tenants.
We had a lovely vegetarian meal at an Indian restaurant there but then unfortunately witnessed a fight between a young man and the owner which ended in the police and ambulance arriving after the very angry young man punched the old owner in the face.
It made us think that we were very glad he was not carrying a gun as is the case in some countries. His friends tried to calm him but he turned on them. It was bad enough that he only had his fists -his temper and extreme anger over getting the order wrong resulted in his total loss of control.