National Curry Day & Patriotic Thoughts

After reading this article on how a PRC couple told their Indian Singaporean neighbours not to cook curry in their HDB flat because the former could not stand the smell of curry, someone started a Facebook page titled 'National Curry Day'.

This person wrote in the introduction of National Curry Day:

"This is our home and we shouldn't have to change the way we live for anybody or anything.

[Link to the article above]

Whether you have fish head curry, kari ayam, curry devil, curry katsu, dhal or some generic oily liquid that comes with prata, let's celebrate something that brings us all together."

Read the article and ask.
Why should the mediator get 'the Indian family to agree to cook curry only when the Chinese family was not home'?
Just because there had been a complaint? Coz mediators are amoral?

Can you move to South Korea and ask South Koreans not to make kimchi coz you think fermented cabbage is smelly and disgusting?

Can you move to Taiwan and ask Taiwanese not to make/sell smelly tofu?

Can you move anywhere else in the world and tell the locals to change themselves to suit you?
Only if you are trying to colonise the place, right?


I've asked a similar question earlier:

For every single time our leaders ask and remind us Singaporeans not to be negative towards foreigners and/or to welcome them with open arms, 

who's reminding the foreigners of the same?

Remember this 1987 patriotic song called We are Singapore (written by Ang Mohs, no less)?
It's my favourite.

There was a time when people said that Singapore won't make it, but we did
There was a time when troubles seemed too much for us to take, but we did
We built a nation, strong and free, reaching out together
For peace and harmony

This is my country, this is my flag
This is my future, this is my life
This is my family, these are my friends
We are Singapore, Singaporeans

It seems the relationship between our leaders and us is such that 共患难容易，共富贵难, i.e. we could see and support one another through troubled times, but we are unable to share times of wealth and prosperity.

After half a century, we have made it as one of the wealthiest cities in the world. But we don't fly the Singapore flag on National Day as much anymore.

This is not right. Something broke down along the way.