My wife pointed out a letter in the Straits Times querying whether Indian nationals who are currently teaching in Singapore have a sufficient grasp of English to be doing their job. There have been quite a few of these bordering upon racist/ sexist/ bigoted letters and articles in the ST of late - against Malays, women, the disabled...something to monitor. In the Indian case I think its been possible to sense a tangible seachange in attitudes amongst members of the Chinese majority over the last few weeks and months: whats deemed as too many Indian foreign worker/ expats and the populace turns nasty it seems.
I have a feeling that any real anxieties about Indian teachers emanating from the nasty littler letter in todays ST will derive from the fact that these Indian teachers' English will be too good/ standard for students in local schools...
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