The strange thing is that all the Singaporeans I have met who have migrated to Australia all chose to live in what were once referred to as 'white bread' upper socioeconomic neighbourhoods such as in the Kew area, the Balwyn area extending up through Surrey Hills and Mount Albert, Canterbury, and the Hawthorn area.
I have never met a Singaporean who has migrated to Australia and has chosen to live and raise a family in Tottenham, Dandenong, or Broadmeadows.
Maybe it's just the company I keep.
However it does seem strange that Singaporeans in very large numbers seem to be selecting where they want to live in Australia at least partly by considering the demographics of the various suburbs, avoiding some and focusing on others.
Even stranger is that someone from a Singaporean background would then denigrate "white" or "European" Australians who might want to move away from an area undergoing a demographic change which they find unpleasant, the same type of area which very few if any Singaporeans would apparently ever move to and live.
Btw I didn't say it's automatically racist, sometimes is plain xenophobia or just ignorance.
But of course Australia doesn't exist in a vacuum, we can measure how 'racist' or 'xenophobic' it is for people to move away from a neighborhood they no longer feel comfortable in by comparing it to race-based practices and attitudes in other countries.
We have someone from Singapore who seems to claiming some sort of moral superiority over 'white' Australians who want to relocate way from an area they no longer want to live, so let's have a look at how race is dealt with in Singapore.
Well what do you know, in Singapore, the country created by Singaporeans, it is legal to discriminate against a person on the basis of their race.
Here we have a report from Singapore detailing property rental advertisements which include such caveats as "Accept all race, except indian sorry no offence (sic)." Apparently it is quite common in certain areas that no Indians, ?PRCs? (from the People?s Republic of China) or Malays will be allowed to rent various properties.
http://blogs.wsj.com/indonesiarealt...ervasive-in-singapore-property-rental-market/
Outside the property market it seems there is a growing undercurrent of racial tension in Singapore as Singaporeans resist the ongoing immigration into their country which they claim is putting a growing strain on "jobs, housing and infrastructure, and raised fears about the dilution of the Singaporean national identity."
"Does Singapore have a problem with xenophobia? It seems that barely a month goes by these days without news reports highlighting friction between Singaporeans and foreign workers in the tiny, multi-ethnic city-state."
Look there is even a sign raised at a demonstration saying "Singapore for Singaporeans".
http://thediplomat.com/2014/02/singapores-foreigner-problem/
Oh well nothing to see here, that's different, let's just forget about that and return to the lecture being given by the person from Singapore about how some 'white' Australians are a mixture of racist, xenophobic and ignorant for exercising their own free will in their own country by selling their house in an area they no longer want to live and buying a house in another area where they would prefer to live.
