This article is so sad, it’s funny.
It’s also missing its alter ego:
“Singapore’s Old Generation: So mature and so hardworking, yet so inflexible and critical, an obstacle to building the future.” By Elia Diodati
THE Singapore adult can lim kopi with the best Seattle has to offer, and is miles more efficient than workers in Europe - but according to Durex, ranks next to dead last in sex frequency in the world.
He (or she) came from humble backgrounds, travels more frequently than his peers in other countries, but is naive about the workings of the external world outside his (or her) home boundaries.
This older generation is also close-minded, superficial, and probably knows the size of his paycheck but nothing about where it comes from, having worked in an era of unquestioned stability.
That means he will probably think twice about spending 60 cents for the Straits Times, while his son, for whom he has purchased Internet access, thinks nothing about reading about local news and views on local blogs in cyberspace.
The Singapore working adult may know his own Member of Parliament but most likely didn’t vote for one in the past three decades.tells him nothing but puts nothing but platitudes and trivial requests on the agency at a Meet-The-People session.
These kopi tiam uncles will likely take pride in wearing the same pair of sandals for two decades or celebrate their wedding anniversary with a cursory glance over the newspaper, if at all.
If the working adult here can be put in a stereotype box, these few paragraphs could best help do it.