S'pore built on immigrants' backs, wrong for us to close door on them
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After the German context in previous post, let's look at the Singapore context now...
-It is wrong because birth is a lottery; one cannot choose where one is born, so it should not determine the future one will have.
This is a moral argument...that we should not penalise a person just because he is born in the wrong country...he should be given a second chance to redress the imbalance and unfairness of chance by allowing him to try his fortunes in another country which is better than his birthplace.
unlock the potential of immigrants who would otherwise have wasted their promise by toiling in fields or dying young of a disease. What if a cancer cure is trapped in some Rohingya child’s brain, but she never gets the opportunity to develop it?
You can see this argument as one where the immigrants possess unique skills that we or few people do not have (esp fr a cty like Singapore where both manpower [quantity] and talent[quality] are in shortage)....or we can see it from the point of view of the immigrant -- allowing them into a new country provides the environment to help unlock their talent, without which this talent will just lie dormant within them and wasted.....
-There is no such thing as a single Singaporean culture, and it gets better when more cultures are added.
This is a useful rebuttal to the accusation that immigrants erodes our culture by bring in theirs...Whether one sees the additional colours added on by the immigrants to our culture as a kind of added variety or a kind of contamination is a matter of perspective.....
-It would be selfish to live in a land of plenty but not let anyone in to drink the milk and honey
A beautiful and effective closing BANG (using figurative language/ imagery) that not only cements the writer's STAND, but also closes the article with a loud and resounding BANG!
Qns:
1) 'Migration should be discouraged, not embraced.' Discussed. (NYJC Prelim 2015)
2) Is there still a place for charity in today's world? (Cam. 2006) [note 'charity' is not just about donating money, but has the larger meaning of being kind and generous towards others...can include volunteerring, and in this case, being accepting of troubled migrants]
After the German context in previous post, let's look at the Singapore context now...
-It is wrong because birth is a lottery; one cannot choose where one is born, so it should not determine the future one will have.
This is a moral argument...that we should not penalise a person just because he is born in the wrong country...he should be given a second chance to redress the imbalance and unfairness of chance by allowing him to try his fortunes in another country which is better than his birthplace.
unlock the potential of immigrants who would otherwise have wasted their promise by toiling in fields or dying young of a disease. What if a cancer cure is trapped in some Rohingya child’s brain, but she never gets the opportunity to develop it?
You can see this argument as one where the immigrants possess unique skills that we or few people do not have (esp fr a cty like Singapore where both manpower [quantity] and talent[quality] are in shortage)....or we can see it from the point of view of the immigrant -- allowing them into a new country provides the environment to help unlock their talent, without which this talent will just lie dormant within them and wasted.....
-There is no such thing as a single Singaporean culture, and it gets better when more cultures are added.
This is a useful rebuttal to the accusation that immigrants erodes our culture by bring in theirs...Whether one sees the additional colours added on by the immigrants to our culture as a kind of added variety or a kind of contamination is a matter of perspective.....
-It would be selfish to live in a land of plenty but not let anyone in to drink the milk and honey
A beautiful and effective closing BANG (using figurative language/ imagery) that not only cements the writer's STAND, but also closes the article with a loud and resounding BANG!
Qns:
1) 'Migration should be discouraged, not embraced.' Discussed. (NYJC Prelim 2015)
2) Is there still a place for charity in today's world? (Cam. 2006) [note 'charity' is not just about donating money, but has the larger meaning of being kind and generous towards others...can include volunteerring, and in this case, being accepting of troubled migrants]
posted by Dark Shadow | 2:22 PM
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