>The fact that you had to go back to the 60s to find a similar incident helps the GP's point, not yours.
Not especially. Those riots were huge, vastly influential in the country's history and, according to the GP, non-existent.
They are the reason why the government hyperfocused on "racial harmony" ever since.
>And do you have any supporting evidence for your claim that migrant labourers are any worse off in SG than they would be elsewhere
Are you saying that because they would be killed by horrendously unsafe working conditions in Qatar that they should consider themselves lucky?
>I had believed they were pretty well treated.
No, they are explicitly third class citizens - kept in dormitories, bussed around on the back of trucks, banned from public places when their appearances there becomes 'unsightly'.
They are only treated well compared to Middle Eastern hellholes like Dubai, Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
>Wonder how long it would have taken in India.
This is disturbingly similar to the rhetoric made during segregation in 1950s America: "the blacks have it better here than they would back home in Africa. Shut up.".
Not especially. Those riots were huge, vastly influential in the country's history and, according to the GP, non-existent.
They are the reason why the government hyperfocused on "racial harmony" ever since.
>And do you have any supporting evidence for your claim that migrant labourers are any worse off in SG than they would be elsewhere
Are you saying that because they would be killed by horrendously unsafe working conditions in Qatar that they should consider themselves lucky?
>I had believed they were pretty well treated.
No, they are explicitly third class citizens - kept in dormitories, bussed around on the back of trucks, banned from public places when their appearances there becomes 'unsightly'.
They are only treated well compared to Middle Eastern hellholes like Dubai, Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
>Wonder how long it would have taken in India.
This is disturbingly similar to the rhetoric made during segregation in 1950s America: "the blacks have it better here than they would back home in Africa. Shut up.".