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This is why, though I have enjoyed my quick transit visits to Singapore, I’ve never been able to buy into weird Singapore-as-model-state fetish in the west. If you’re South Asian, you can’t help noticing the migrant-labor underbelly, same as in Dubai. Like Mexicans in US.
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"the contagion was spreading in government-built dormitories crowded with 200,000 foreign laborers, mostly from South Asia and China." nytimes.com/2020/04/20/wor
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Especially noticeable if you’re South Indian. Parts of Singapore look like provincial lower middle-class towns in South India. Lots of gold shops is the dead give away of economic structure.
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Even worse than Mexicans in the US, I'd say. Pretty much everyone has a Filipino maid. Often someone taken away from their own kids to raise yours. I do have a fetish for HDBs and hawker centres though.
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