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.https://twitter.com/The_Lagrangian/status/1252329065375203328 …
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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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overall the singaporeans themselves buy into these delusions unlike anyone else. “Look at my competent government” first time round. Second wave of corona brought them crashing back to reality.
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