Immigrants of Singapore

Recently, “immigration” has become one of the most controversial topic among locals, be it online or on media like newspaper. Huge influx of immigrants and foreign workers from the past few years have resulted in a serious impact on the life of Singaporean, mainly economically and competition for resources becomes more intense. More and more Singaporeans raise concerns regarding the issue and are unsecured as they feel they are “second-citizen” in their own land. The immigrants consists of mainly workers who, in pursuit of a better life and a way of supporting their families in poverty, come to Singapore and willing to do anything to earn money, including working long hours, thus bringing down the entire payment and employment rate for Singaporeans. One very extreme and sentimental comment would be “because of the foreign workers, who are so cheap, the terms of employment for Singaporean are so terrible.”(ChannelNewAsia 2010)
  However, I feel that we could be more rational about this if we look on the bright side, the immigrants, not only bring along their unique culture but also directly boosting Singapore’s economy, the airlines’ flights increase, by living in Singapore, they contribute to the economy by spending money to buy necessity and patronizing restaurants or kopitam. The policy has overall benefitted the country as a whole, when Singapore companies can expand their businesses in other countries. For example, we have seen news announcing collaboration between China and Singapore. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong just came back from China, Hunan, paving way for Singapore firms and expecting to join hand with Hunan in fields such as Education, science&technology, industry and urbanization.(ChannelNewsAsia2010) From personal view, I think that the policy of accepting more immigrants has overall positive affects in a sense that embracing national wide workers and students is a sign of showing welcome and a crucial process in turning Singapore to a more...