Two Sides Of A Coin

Think. Ponder. Reflect.

Through this project, I have learnt if Singapore is really multi-cultural or not. Are we able to embrace people from different cultures and races and understand them? Singaporeans may blindly believe Singapore is multi-cultural but actually there are still people from other races who are not comfortable living in Singapore. Therefore we know that Singapore has such a disadvantage and Singaporeans can work on it.

- Lim Jerome

Personally, I feel that this project is rather meaningful. We are living in Singapore, where a huge part of the populations are made up from immigrants. We must understand these immigrants' untold stories and also our own people’s different point of views about them. I often hear workers who came from China were often being hated by Singaporeans as there were many of them and they require lesser salaries. The Singaporean's jobs were stolen by these Chinese workers but do the Chinese really feel good to be working in Singapore? Its untold but I believe after doing this project, I can find out more not only about these problems but also improve my language art since we are using an novella to show our surveys and in the process of writing the novella with my group mates, I may be able to learn and find out more things.

- Colin Ng Siong Haur

I personally feel that our project can enable us to really find out whether Singapore is a truly multi cultural and whether the immigrants can be accepted by the society. Through our interview, we found out that many immigrants feel that they are accepted by Singaporeans but on the other hand, many Singaporeans do not really want to live and work with these immigrants. There are many misunderstandings and misconception between the immigrants and Singaporeans. We can also know more about the positive and negative experiences faced by these immigrants to allow us to understand these immigrants better.

- Ng Jia Neng

Singapore may say that it is a multi-racial country, however, its what people thinks that affects this. Singaporeans may think that the foreigners are extra in Singapore and only serves as a competitor in finding good jobs and social standards, and this may cause discrimination and unfriendliness towards certain foreigners, and there are also people who thinks that foreigners are mainly laborers and helps to improve Singapore. Not alot of people have a deeper understanding of how important foreigners are in terms of helping build a better Singapore.

- Guo Zili