Oh God Somebody KILL Me!!!! But before anyone does, tell me again WHY is he still technically the father of the country? Times like this I wish he would just you know… GO.
At a Human Capital Summit in Singapore, our dearest Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew makes the following comment, as reported in CNA.com:
On a lighter note, the Minister Mentor touched on what he calls assortative mating, that is, finding a spouse at your level - something he strongly believes in.
He said: “I have explained this. I think I lost votes after I explained the awful truth. Nobody believed it, but slowly it dawned on them, especially the graduates, that yes, you marry a non-graduate, then you worry about whether or not your son or daughter is going to make it to the university.
I’m sorry to break your bubble dude, but unfortunately, BOTH my parents never made it to University. They didn’t even finish their Secondary school education! My mom failed maths in her O’levels and my dad didn’t even complete Secondary Two. Somehow, I managed it to University, a world-class Singaporean university, and graduated. My brother’s in poly, yes, but he recently won third in a Youth Entrepreneurship competition.
None of my aunts & uncles from both sides of the family went to University. Yet 80% of my cousins graduated successfully. I even have a President’s Scholar in my extended family. And no. Her parents never did make it to University.
I don’t know where did you get that preposterous idea of assortative mating but really, you should wake up your idea and see the society for what it really is. Of course most of us will marry at “our own level”. That’s simply because there are so many University graduates around! Throw a stone randomly and I bet you, you’ll hit a University graduate on his/her head.
Furthermore, I don’t think that having a university degree necessarily means that you are all that. It gives you a slight advantage over others, and allows you to start at a level a little higher than usual. However, it’s only the civil service and local based companies who really scrutinise the degree results. MNCs don’t actually care very much about the degree. Everything is based on experience, aptitude and attitude. A degree is just icing on the cake. Nothing more.
On the subject of civil servants, I have to say, some of your highly treasured civil servants are really clueless. I didn’t know that there could be working adults who have no idea if DHL could pick up packages from Cambodia and bring them back to Singapore. All they knew was that they have only been sending packages out of Singapore. It took all my resolve not to roll my eyes and tell them they’re stupid.
So, really. Stop your eugenics ideas. Just. Stop. It.
Please.
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