新加坡军队相对只信任印度裔和华裔
Unfair discrimination of Malays in National Service
It is past time to seriously reconsider the treatment of Malays in the SAF and National Service in general. While potential enemies in the form of Malaysia and Indonesia are both Islamic, I would like to state a simple truth: bullets do not care what creed or race you are, they harm and kill regardless. To quote the film Blood Diamond: “There was no apartheid in the foxhole” - a sentiment echoed by the mercenary character Danny Archer, played by Leonardo di Caprio, talking about serving beside black soldiers during the apartheid era in South Africa.
There is a need to start treating our comrades as equals, regardless of creed and race, for to treat them with mistrust and alienation will only destroy any affinity they have to Singapore. I feel as a Chinese-Indian, straddling a minority and majority culture, that this is a policy which commits a major injustice. And it is within the bounds of our power to correct.
I served as a Signaller in 35 SCE, HQ Company, from 2005 to 2006. The fact remains that the Signal Formation is distinct in its exclusion of Malays, as are certain other units, such as 39 SCE, CBRE Defence Group, the Armour Formation, Reconnaissance units and Military Intelligence amongst others. This is anecdotal evidence and also based on personal experience and observation within the institution - as most Singaporean men can attest to. The token Malays are a consolation, an exercise in Public Relations. Only a fool would think otherwise.
Malays are subject to an official policy of systemic general discrimination and treated with distrust even before enlistment. Malay absence from SAFOS scholarships and near-absence from SAF Merit Scholarships deserves special mention. This absence of Malays is an extension of the discrimination against the admission of Malays into senior and sensitive positions in the SAF that is officially sanctioned by this policy.
The discrimination against Malays has been discussed in parliament and the media, and is justified by the assertion that the loyalty of Malays cannot be assumed, both because they are Muslim and because they have a racial and ethnic affinity with the Malays in Malaysia and Indonesia (Barr,2006).
This discrimination hits Malay men hardest, first because it deprives many of promising careers in the military, and second—and more pertinent for our study of the elite—it all but completely excludes potentially high-flying Malays of a chance of entering the scholar class through the SAF (Barr,2006). To quote a blogger on this issue which I feel sums up the situation:
香港曾经流传过一个笑话，马来人不能开新加坡军队的战斗机，如果新马开战这些马来人就轰炸新加坡了
我觉得这个笑话应该是从新加坡方面自己流传出来的，因为当时新马关系有段时间颇为紧张，如果有在知乎的新加坡的人应该还记得80年代还是90年代左右两地发生过何事
存在。
个人体验到的主要是华人对马来人和印度人的歧视。
比如说一些华人提到这两个种族就会说他们smelly，当说到某个华人和马来人/印度人谈恋爱就会觉得难以理解。等等等等。法律上明令禁止歧视行为，但是，潜在观念上的歧视依然存在。
图侵删
他说他一直这么记地图的：you can imagine someone shitting, the two parts of Pakistan are two legs. India is just what is between them. Ya.. I can't say that word cuz it's politically incorrect.（想象有个人在大号，两侧巴基斯坦就是两条腿，中间印度是那啥我就不说了，说了政治就不正确了）
有人的地方，就有江湖。有人的地方，就有歧视。有人的地方，就有不公。即使对发达小国新加坡，也不例外。
钟欢
新加坡不同种族之间的不认同和偏见一定有。法律禁止歧视，政府也下了很大的功夫消除各种偏见。作为前殖民地，新加坡文化中有崇英、崇欧美的部分，按照这个标准华人也是你嘴里说的“劣势民族”。但是没有什么人会因为这个概念就歧视别的种族，也从来没有听说谁因为自己的种族就无权获得什么地位或者工作。当然你愿意自我歧视请自便。别人帮不了你。