09-05-2014, 03:20 PM
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Are Singaporeans xenophobic? (Christopher Balding)
An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
http://www.baldingsworld.com/2014/05...ns-xenophobic/
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Taking the case of Singapore, given the constraints to housing and land, large population inflows are going to place significant pressure on housing prices. Furthermore, while high skilled workers doctors, scientists, and economists are better suited to immigration pressures to the labor pool, middle and low skilled workers are going to face the greatest pressures. Consequently, immigration is placing upwards price pressure on housing and downward pressures on wages for most people in Singapore.
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Criticizing government policies on immigration is not xenophobic. There are real benefits to immigration but also very real costs. Criticizing government policies on immigration is not xenophobic as people are facing very real pressures from the decisions. Criticizing opponents of government immigration policies as xenophobic and bigoted reveals the weakness of the argument and inability to weigh the complexity of policy dilemmas involved.
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Are Singaporeans xenophobic? If they are, I certainly haven’t experienced it and the anti-foreigner rhetoric that has been directed at me as come from those criticizing others as xenophobic and as a substitute to refute my ideas. No, Singaporeans aren’t xenophobic, they just want honest debate about government policies.
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