History of Singapore
in Brief
Singapore is very young country
officially founded by Sir Thomas Stanford Raffles since year 1819 of
the EIC company of Great Britain and had it's independence since 9
august 1965.
Very little has been known of Singapore
in the past, anything and everything officially in history about
Singapore begins from year 1819 onwards and anything before was full
of speculation and much was unknown or uncertain before year 1819
Chronological names
of Singapore from 2nd century to 1400s
The
chronological order of the old names of Singapore in history from pre
colonial to colonial until the Japanese occupation of WW2 are :
- Sabana by the Greeks during 2nd century
- Pu Luo Chung(蒲羅中), probably a transliteration of the MalayPulau Ujong during 3rd century
- Singapura 11th century by what is today India and Indonesia
- Long Ya Men (龍牙門or Dragon's Tooth Strait) in 1400s by China
- Dan Ma Xi (淡馬錫, from MalayTamasik or Temasek which means Sea Town or Sea Port) in 1400s by Malay Penesula
Chronological
names of Singapore from 1600s to 1945
Coming
from the 1600s to early 1800s there are many more names coming from
China and Malay Straits which are namely
- Seng-ka-pho(星嘉坡 or 星加坡)
- Seng-chiu
(星洲;
"Singapore Island")
- Seng-kok
(星國
"Singapore
State").
- Sit-la̍t (石叻) derived from the Malay word selat meaning "strait
- Sit-la̍t-mn̂g [石叻門] another name forLongyamen
- Sit-la̍t-po· (石叻埠)
- Si̍t-la̍t-po·(實叻埠
- La̍t-po·(叻埠)
Towards
1800s till pre WW2 names had by the western world and other parts of
Asia were
- Singapore
- Nanyang 南洋
During
WW2 of the Japanese occupation 1942 -1945 our name was Shōnantō
(昭南島)
Other
Names of Singapore till present
From
year 1945 till 1980s, other contemporary names of different
languages were :
- (狮城), literally "Lion City => Chinese
- Xīngzhōu/Seng-chiu (星洲) and Xīngguó/Seng-kok (星國) => Chinese
- Singapura => Malay
- Ciṅkappūr (சிங்கப்பூர்) & Ciṅkappūr Kutiyarasu (சிங்கப்பூர் குடியரசு). => by the tamil Indians
- Sernghakborey (សិង្ហបុរី) in Khemer by the Cambodians
- Singapour by the French
- Cộng hòa , Tân Gia Pha orTân Gia Ba , Tân Gia Ba Cộng hòa quốc Chiêu Nam for Shōnan (昭南) and Hạ Châu by the Vietnamese
- Singapa (신가파) & Singgaporeu (싱가포르) by the Koreans
During
the 1990s to 21st
century of today Singapore is often referred as the Little Red Dot
Transnational
Marriage background of Singapore
However,
unknow to much people outside of Singapore, We Singaporeans have a
very long history of Transnational Marriages or what others call as
which is Cross Country Marriages, Cross Border marriages, or
international marriages
Transnational
marriages has always been in the roots and history of Singaporeans
since our beginning of time from year 1819 till of today and even in
the future and this is most unlikely to change
Early
days of settlement
As
Singapore is also a land of immigrants which also happens to be in
our roots and history as well since early 1400s till of today ,
during the early days before the Japanese occupation of WW2 , our
early forefather ancestors who had imgrated here had many wives along
the way from their own home town country to here locally and when
they go on business trips or home town visits they still marry wives
along the way to and fro
The
Trend of Transnational Marriages
Ever
since after the Japanese occupation of WW2 , Singaporeans at the very
beginning marry only wives from Malaysia and Indonesia until the
1980s
But
as times goes by, the scope had expaned and Singaporean began to
marry wives from Thailand and Philippines until early 1990s
And
again the scope expanded further into Japan during theJ-pop season
whereby Singaporeans flew into Japan to look for Japanese wives to
marry back to Singapore until somewhere close to late 1990s the scope
opened up further.
This
time, Singaporeans began looking into wives from China and India
until probably year 2005 and the trend has change again.
Our
scope of wife search now expanded into Vietnam and Korea and it
became into a very super high unbelieveable demand of wives from
Vietnam and Korea by the Singaporeans market which is alot more than
what you can imagine of . Absolutely unbelieveable !
Much
attention went to Vietnamese because more and more singaporeans are
tapping into vietnamese market for business expansion etc.. and found
the quality of the woman that is most ideal into what Singaporeans
are looking for in a wife that Singaporean girl do not process
As
for Korean wives, it has something more or less to do with the recent
K-Pop wave just like the previous J-pop wave.
Today
as of year 2014 the tides has changed again once more and people have
started looking into the Myanmar market to scout and search for wives
in myanmar or coming from myanmar as Singaporean contact with myanmar
nationals over the recent few years has increased alot and found that
ther is lesser language barriers between myanmar people and
Singaporean citizens.
Furture
Trend in my own personal opinion
In
my own personal and individual opinion of how i see things by the
looks of what is going on, the next country that will be included
into our scope of wife search or wife hunt or wife scout will be
among one of the following countries
- Mongolia
- Cambodia
- Bhutan
- Russia
out
of these 4 i predict to be one of the next hit in personal opinion, i
would believe Mongolia and Bhutan has a higher percentage and out
these 2 the very likely hit should be Mongolia. Let's see if what i
today predict as of year 2014 march will come true in the future
about 3 or 5 years later.
Existing
List of Countries for wives by Singaporean Men
Of
the existing countries i have listed in the scope that Singaporeans
go all out to find wives which are
- Malaysia
- Indonesia
- Philippines
- Thailand
- Japan
- China
- India
- Vietnam
- South Korea
- Myanmar
The
Decline of Countries
There
are some recent decline and lost of interest as well as sediments due
to much bad experiences Singaporean had with certain foreigners as
wife and employment in the work force and political issues
the
declining countries will be
- China
- India
- Philippines
and
of the 3, China is worst as the highest number of failed marriages
and Singaporean man are very badly victimised , conned and cheated
until nothing left come from China. The reputation of China national
wife is really too bad in the recent few years.
India
is also similar but not as bad as China, & as to the Philippines
much is due to employment and politicital issues in the recent few
years in Singapore
How
and Where do Singaporeans Find Wife
the
means and methods used to find wife are commonly from dating or
matchmaking agencies some of which are even agencies that sell wives
to Singaporeans. Such agencies who sell wives, the company is
Singapore company but the agent and everything is directly from their
own native countries.
Others
would fly all the way into that country itself find for about a
maximum of 3 months duration by going into the villages or the local
agency in the country itself.
Another
common method is by word of mouth where people that already know
introduces someone to them.
As
to methods of looking for foreign wife who is already an immigrants
inside of Singapore or going by Internet social media website to
search are not common or popular methods so far.
Sad
, bad , Fail and unsuccessful cases of victim of marriages
Sad
and bad example or failed cased and unsuccessful marriages whereby
the foreign girls are victims here in Singapore are really too low
and rare more than what you can imagine. But cases of which it is the
Singaporean man who are the victim it is really too common. Most of
the Singaporean man always gets cheated by the foreign wife they
marry whom they love too much and really give their everything to her
until he has nothing left for himself.
Despite
all these
Even
though there is a fear among many Singaporean man that he will become
the victim, but still too many Singaporean man still want to marry
foreign wife and myself i am among one of them.
Of
course saying all this does not means that every Singaporean man
marries foreigners here. But however the number of marriages with
foreigners especially in the recent few years since 2010 has increase tremendously and it is very shocking in this rise of number that it
is becoming more and more common and normal and usual to see a
Singaporean married with foreigner these days today in Singapore.
The
New Challengers
On
top of this, there is also a growing number of foreign girls who come
all the way into the heartlands of Singapore just a find a
Singaporean husband to marry and these girls comes from Japan, USA, &
Britain.
These
girls come here from their own country just for the objective and
motive and reason of finding themselves a Singaporean husband to
marry here and stay here and such is also on the rise as well inside
of Singapore too.
Hence
it is not in every case that Singaporean man need to go into the
heartlands of other countries to find, there are also others who
comes into our heartlands to find us as well too.
Why
no marry locals
And
in the case of Singaporeans marry local girls, to marry a local girl
is not always the first choice that the majority of Singaporean man
have in mind, often it is the last choice or for some never at all no
matter what the worst may result , even if they really cannot find a
foreign wife they would still rather never ever marry a Singaporean
girl as wife.
The
market of Singaporean girl by Singaporean man for marriage is
relatively very low in stock and demand and interests as well.
This
does not refers to all Singaporean girls but it is on a very and
absolutely general basics of how and what kind of woman is a
Singaporean woman ?
Again
i have to re emphasis it is only a general statement and it does not
refers to all.
What
kind of Girls are Singaporean Girls
So
what is girls of Singapore generally ?
Most
of the Singaporean girls can be classified into these
3 types 5C SPG GCP & there are really too many of them
inside of Singapore.
5C(s)
Girls of Singapore
5C
girls so what are the 5C(s) ?
Cash
,credit card or some say country club membership ,career ,condominium
, & carthese are the very famous 5C Singapore girl look for in a man these are considered to be the very basic requirements only
refer to this link if you wish to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_C's_of_Singapore
SPG ( Sarong Party Girls) of Singapore
SPG
refer to those girls who always go outside have fun and party to look
for man and i am talking about rich, influential, powerful and famous
foreign man ( Americans, Europeans, Australians, Japanese or Koreans)
they look for man to be their mistress , to be their girlfriend and
to be their wife
you
may refer to this link if you wish to
finally Singaporean girls are also very famous for being GCP ( golden cheese pie)
gcp
refers to those who see themselves very high class , high status ,
above others, very expensive girls wear all things branded go to only
expensive high class places use all high class and branded things
everything must be expensive and have class cheap things don want
always ask the guy spend alot of money on her want many expensive
gifts from the guy only go with people who can match their status
refer
to this link
Check
List of Singaporean Girls
Many
of the girls in Singapore here look into how many of the below point
the man has just only to be worthy of consideration only
- Do you have the looks & handsome
- Do you have the body , muscular, & big in size
- Do have the money, are you poor
- Do you hold any high position like a manager or director
- Do you own a car
- Are still living with parents and Singapore girls always look down on guys who lives with their parents
- Is your House those big and expensive type
- Do you own any privilege membership cards
- Are you smart & have special talents
- Do you have anything for them to show off in front of others
To
generalise Singaporean Girls but not referring to all
Generally,
Singaporean girls are over demanding, high expectations people, very
bossy and fussy types, over career minded , over realistic , over
proctorial, very money minded and materialistic , too pampered and
spoiled, cannot take hardships and want good life, non traditional
wife and non family orientated and non husband orientated, just to
generalise.
Although
this general group of girls in Singapore are in big numbers here in
Singapore but again like what i have to say once more it is not all .
Singaporeans
as a general Whole
Often,
it has been said by the Charity organisations of other countries that
Singaporeans as a generally whole man or woman has a heart of a
Buddha. How true is this statement i leave it to you
Selling
point of a Singaporean Husband
A
Singaporean man really gives his everything to his girl and more than
what he can give until he really has nothing more to give and
anything more will be his life
Singaporean
man may not be the best in everything and what they give to their
girl is already exceeding their best . They do everything for their
girl not with words but with real actions and results.
He
can really give his all and everything and anything to the girl until
he has nothing left for himself. Even if it means he will go
bankrupt, he will be in heavy debts , he will be reduce to a beggar
begging on the streets he will also it ! Speaking about to die for
the girl , there has been real life cases and example as well in the
history of Singapore as well. All that has been mentioned in this
paragraph is real things , no jokes, no exaggeration everything all
real and true.
What
Foreigners who married to Singaporean husband say
it
has been frequently told upon to the Singaporeans husband, friends &
etc... by these foreigners wives that in their whole life as a female
gender, the greatest thing in life is to marry a Singaporean husband
and if to say regrets and remorse it will be why not earlier known
and marry a Singaporean husband?
From
their own mouth , they have expressed that it is only the Singaporean
man who really and truly make them felt good to be a woman, proud to
be a woman and they only felt they are a woman after marrying
Singaporean husband. They had never ever felt as woman before in
their whole entire life until they married a Singaporean husband.
They
receive more than just the due respect , believe, trust and love and
care that a woman can ever ask for from a man as a woman. This is at
least one point that man from their own country failed to give them
according to what they had expressed.
The
Singaporean husband really treated them like a real princess, a
queen, and a goddess all 3 in 1. it was the first time in their life
they finally know they are a woman , no need to afraid of being
woman, no need to don't like being woman , no need to feel bad being
a woman , no need anything at all.
In
fact they even encourage other fellow Singaporean man who cannot find
the right Singaporean girl that don't have to keep themselves to only
Singaporean girls , the world outside of Singapore is big and there
are alot more better girls outside waiting for us Singaporean man and
we Singaporean man truly deserve a better girl for ourselves.
It
was in their own opinion that they felt Singaporean girls are
unworthy of Singaporean man. This statement is also something that
many other Singaporean man felt too about their own Singaporean girls
as well.
These
foreigner wife also encourage woman from their own native country to
come out of the country to marry a Singaporean husband instead of
their own local man as they say Singaporean husband are really the
best and most ideal husband for a girl
there
really isn't anything a girl should ask for if she can marry a
Singaporean man cos the Singaporean man is the best !
If
You are a Singaporean man
But
these are among just some of the reasons why many do not want to
marry Singaporean girls including foreigner man as well.
Hence
it is just only a small part of the explanations of why Singaporean
man want to marry foreign wife so much.
This
scenario of Singaporean man marry foreigners as wives is really very
unlike to ever change for now and even in the far future and
Singapore will still continue to be a land of immigrants and a land
of tansnational marriages
so
now having reading so much if you are a Singaporean man will you
marry a Singaporean girl or a foreigner ? Share your answers and
state your reasons
