Had supper at Land of the Vices last night, otherwise better known as Geylang. Unsurprisingly, the place remains infested (yes, they're just like vermin) with cheap prositutes who seem to have a special thing for wearing NEON PINK dresses.

This kinda brings back memories of the good ole' days, when at the height of my enthusiasm on the very subject, saw the generation of multiple china-prostitutes-bashing blog entries and a forum entry published on the local newspapers no less. Though i have mellowed in my criticism towards this particular form of societal decadence in recent years, my hatred for them remains nevertheless. to hell with the frigging deceptive sob stories, the world isnt buying them, why cant you see? what the world is buying though, is lust, and quite literally so indeed.

That, being said, still fails to explain why my hatred is in particular, directed towards prostitutes who come from a *certain country*. The answer to this dates back to a newspaper article published several years ago. The report documented views of several Chinese females who outrightly despised Singaporean females, with their core argument based on the premise that Singaporean females are less cultured and learned than they are.

Pardon me if i'm wrong, but isnt this such a BASELESS conclusion? Admittedly though, I find it tough to argue against the culture part because societies have varying interpretations on what constitutes culture (think sympolic interactionist perspective) but more importantly, Singapore, being such a young and globalized nation, has no unique culture to speak of. (Despite the existence of multiculturalism, I maintain that diversity cannot be viewed as a culture) And if culture were to be defined in terms of etiquette then i must remind our Chinese counterparts that this friggin country actually bans SPITTING, do theirs?! Moreover, there is NO WAY in HELL that we're possibly less learned because statistics can easily prove otherwise - the level of education attained by the average Singapore citizen far exceeds that of the *certain country*.

I am still buffed at whatever gave them the idea that they're one up on us.

Maybe it's not their fault that some of them are extremely poor. But in view of the rapid urbanization taking place in China (and therefore translates into increasing availability of job opportunities), are there not better ways to earn a decent living besides selling your dignity? Unless of course, dignity means nothing to them, for which it should not matter that they do not command any respect at the end of the day. It seems to me that prostitutes these days are driven by their desires for wealth and luxury instead of the cirucumstances arising out of poverty.

Guess I'll stop here before getting too carried away and risk getting all too inspired to write into the forums again, haha.

*the term 'prostitutes' mentioned above refers to those who entered the trade on their own free will [however compelling their circumstances may be], and excludes child and slavery prostitution.

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