i would like to add my view here
i feel local Indians though majority Tamils, they have showed up positively as Indians in general, be it buisness to politics they have playd major roles in Singapore.
i heard out of the 6 presidents of Singapore 2 were Indians which include the current President also the longest serving one for 10yrs.
One of the 4 founding father of Singapore was an Indian called Rajaratnam along with Mr Lee
Looking at the political circle of Singapore, Local Indians have a good reupation there.
As far as culture is concern , all Hindu temples are well maintained and by the book and law.
I am a mix of Malayaalee and Gujerathi but i have learnt to speak Tamil as an Indian it is my duty to continue the good works of the local Indians rather than messing up as said by one of the forumer.
Remember we are one infact, be it from India or outside India, Indian Culture is well maintained in Singapore, thanks to the Singapore born Indians as new Indians we have to appreciate their good work and go along with it .
We have to take the effort to read about the local achievements of the Singapore Indians, it is a pride to us.
Regardless of Singapore, Surinam, Scychelles or Malaysia as an Indian we have to read about the histroy of the local Indians and recongnise the good works.
Depavali/Diwali is a public Holiday here
One of the biggest procession of Singapore is a Hindu Festival
which takes place in late Jan-Feb
One bad experience i encountered, when i travelled to Malaysia with a Hindustani friend, we visited an Indian restaurant in Johore Bahru just 20min from the Singapore border of woodlands , we were approached by a friendly Indian waiter, and the friend of mine spoke to the waiter in Hindi, thats a mistake of my friend as Malaysia is another Indian Majority country home to nearly 2million local Indian Hindus who are mainly Tamils, after that the treatment was entirely different, the waiter just left and no one came to our table except for few starings here and there at us. The Malysian Indians are much rougher and patriotic when concern Tamil or Hinduism, we were approached by 3 guys asking us whether we have a problem with the Malaysian Indians and such, gosh we thank God nothing went wrong and matter got smoother after conversation and we apologised, lucky that i was able to speak in Tamil with them.
After that the entire senario was otherwise, we were offered free lunch and those guys out there welcome us to Malaysia knowing that we were expats from India to Singapore.
You see either they are very bad or good, this kinda situation is no differnt in India from state to state as in the attitude is concern, i cant speak Kannada or Malayalam to a guy in Maharashtra right, coz if i do the reaction will be otherwise .
So let us live together and work together
