Unnecessary patriotism

Ever heard of "over-patriotism?" Probably not, because I just came up with that rather grammatically incorrect phrase. Nonetheless, it describes a powerful phenomenon seen daily in our "beloved" land of "Everything's possible with a bit of moolah."

Let me elaborate...

Sometimes, well, most of the time:
1. Some foreigner will say "Oh, the toilets in your country are attrociously dirty!"
2. A Singaporean might say "Eh, I got conned in P.S. la! And the guys there are so rude!"
3. A Thai girl will say "You local men are bastards! You think ALL Thai women are whores!"
4. A foreigner will say "EWWW! How on Earth can you put something as foul as a durian in your mouth?! It smells like a used diaper in a clogged drain!"
5. Another local might say "Eh, damn slack la! So many 'Halal' western restaurants! Its so hard to find good pork chops and baby back ribs!"

Typical local response:
For examples 1 and 4:
"BLARDY FUCKING FOREIGNER! IF YOU DON'T LIKE OUR COUNTRY SO MUCH, GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM LA! FUCKING COLONIALIST BASTARD! YOU THINK YOU STILL OWN THIS COUNTRY IZZIT?! FUCK YOU!"

For example 2:
"FUCK YOU SINGAPOREAN BASTARD! DRINK TOILET WATER WANNA TALK SO MUCH! IF ITS NOT FOR OUR GENEROSITY GIVING YOU STUFF, YOU WILL BE NOTHING! KIASU FUCKER! GO BACK TO YOUR COUNTRY LA!"

And finally, for example 5:
"PUKIMAK LU LA CHEEBAI! THIS IS OUR COUNTRY! IF YOU'RE NOT HAPPY, GO BACK TO YOUR ANCESTORS' COUNTRY! BLARDY FUCKER!"

Now, factoring out all the common denominators in the typical responses, we get:
1. FUCK YOU.
2. GO BACK TO YOUR COUNTRY.

Now, why I say these people are being overly patriotic is, they bloody well KNOW what the 5 people said is damned true! Public toilets are so dirty in this country you barely find vermin in them! Don't believe me? Have you EVER seen a cockroach in one of those toilets?

P.S. is DAMN WELL full of conmen! The moment they see a white man or someone who dresses like a tourist, its a WHOLE different set of prices! I tried this out once. I told my foreigner friend to go ask the price of a particular watch in P.S. I told him just to ask the price, not to bargain and walk off. Later, I went to the SAME STALL and did the same. My price was RM80. The foreigner's price? RM150! If you ask them why they do this, they will say "Foreigner got lot of money mah! They can pay liao!"

However, what is worse, or should I say, the WORST is, when one local slags off another local. What do you mean when you say "Go back to your country!" ? THIS is my country! My parents were born and bred here! MY grandparents helped build this country too! So, WHO IN THE BLUE HELL ARE YOU to tell me I am not good enough to be a local here?!

It is always nice to receive praise from visitors. However, condemnation is also very, very important! Without criticism, how can one improve? Mind you, I speak of CONSTRUCTIVE criticism, the kind where the person criticizing has a justified reason in doing so. If a foreigner says local people are nice and friendly, then he is a "nice guy." But if he follows that praise up with the critique that these same nice people go absolutely arse-ways the moment they get into a vehicle, the foreigner suddenly becomes "a bastard who should 'go back to his own country'!"

A problem is like a wound. If you notice it and clean it and dress it, the wound will heal. If however, you choose to ignore it and say "It will heal by itself," the wound is going to get infected, get septic and finally, poison your whole body......