thehoopoe
TheHoopoe
thehoopoe

Thank you for your reply. I think Singapore is a different place now. There are people from everywhere. The 70s were different. TV only from 3 pm to 12pm, of course no internet. Very few international cultural events. Outside of the CBD, Holland and Tanglin Park areas you never saw white people. Seeing an African

I dont know how old you are but I grew up in Singapore in the 70s and 80s. It was not cool to be mixed race at all. People told me constantly to go back to where I come from, wouldn't let me join their groups, if we went to visit relatives in hdb estates their neighbors would come running out of their flats to point

ha ha, someone actually said that to me once.

This. My mom is white and she had to accept that she would never ever be accepted. I think it is what drove her to drink.

me too. The 70s and 80s were hard. It's a lot easier for mixed kids now. People used to chase me down the street pointing and laughing in early 80s Singapore.

I'm half chinese too and frankly, Chinese people are terrible about this. It's ironically better on the mainland where there are a lot of different ethnic groups but overseas Chinese are vicious to mixed race. It doesn't matter how well you speak Chinese, or how Confucian you act around them. It's like they get off

I'm a halfie too. One of the reasons I live in the US is that I can walk down the street here without being pointed at and called nasty names. Growing up in Asia in the 70s and 80s was not fun. I was told all day everyday by idiots that I should go back to where I came from, that I would never be one of them , and who

nothing really matters, nothing at all.

Meet the new creeps, same as the old creeps.