The recent online uproar over the Bugis accident which involved the death of a millionaire PRC, a Japanese female student and a Singaporean cabby driver set me thinking. I wondered aloud if the Ferrari driver was a local and not a PRC, would there be so much public fury? After all, there were fatal accidents caused by Singaporean drivers in the past but they were not sensationalized like this.
Not too long ago there was a PRC who got into a fight with a cabby driver and recklessly drove his taxi and rammed onto an innocent Malaysian cleaner at the Budget Terminal. He killed the fellow on the spot. And then there was the PRC bus driver who horrendously ran over a housewife while she crossed the traffic light. These three accidents happened within several months in 2012 and has inevitably, ignited much anti-foreigner sentiments among Singaporeans. There were many online comments condemning the reckless acts ......