Comments by "K `" (@user-jt3dw6vv4x) on "Behind Asia" channel.

  1.  @rogerfaint499  In Singapore, the Singaporean Indians earn more than any other ethnic group in the country. You know there are variations to this, right? It's not the same everywhere. Idk why you're having to compare the two groups anyway? Always Chinese vs Indian. Imagine how tired we are. Can't you all just get along??
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  2. I don't know why you're gloating about that. Most Gulf Arabs don't even work. They have to rely on foreigners to do everything. Ever wonder why all of the pilots and flight attendants of Middle Eastern airlines like Emirates are made up of foreign men and women? That's because the locals don't work. Gulf Arab nations are only thriving because they have foreigners from other parts of the world doing all of work for them, whether that's working in corporate to constructing a building or cleaning a toilet. It's also why they own slaves and why we always hear of stories of Filipino, Sri Lankan and Indonesian maids getting beaten and raped by Arab men. I have never come across a single person (except for Gulf Arabs) who have ever said a good thing about Gulf Arab countries.
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  3.  @rogerfaint499  Yes they do. All you have to do is look at the government census data from the Singaporean government. Indians had the highest household median income among all ethnic groups in Singapore in 2020. Now can all of you just get along instead of fighting over Chinese and Indians from the same country?? The rest of the Asian community is tired of y'all constantly fighting.
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  4.  @official-hb4mr  This is about local Indians, not Chinese and Indian immigrants from mainland China and India respectively. It is very hard to get PR in Singapore and they are not included in the statistics. Millionaires from India and China are also not immigrating to Singapore en masse. One day, both of you will get along and maybe then the Asian Century can happen.
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  5.  @official-hb4mr  Foreign students in Singapore don't get PR easily. There are certain people who are more likely to get it and it's not an easy process, it's nothing like the pathway to PR in Western countries. Also, what has PR got do with this? I told you that I am talking about Singaporean-born people? Idk why you're so upset about what I am talking about. So upset that you're talking about Chinese and Indian people from China and India while I am talking about Singaporean-Chinese and Singaporean-Indians. Yeah I know Indian students are more inclined to stay, they decide to settle in my country while many of the Chinese students go back but can you all just stop fighting and comparing yourselves to one another??? We in the Asia-Pacific will know peace when China and India learn to get along until then we are going to be trapped between these two power hungry and irredentist countries.
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  6. Bahahahaha they never have their priorities straight. No wonder the educated Malaysian Chinese, Indians and even Malays leave Malaysia for greener pasture in Singapore and Australia.
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  7.  光宗耀祖啊  Sorry but you are talking about South and Southeast Asian cultures by googling and looking at images without actually understanding the history of the two regions. Anybody who is aware of Southeast Asian history will know that the Indians culturally influenced Southeast Asia (except for Vietnam) and that muay thai, lethwei, muay chaiya, pradal serey and so on are related to musti-yuddha which is from India. It feels weird having to explain this because literally everybody knows this. I've done more research since and there are claims that silat was influenced by both Indian and Chinese martial arts traditions.
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  8.  @Zohirul-Jewel  That's not helping India at all. A Japanese company invested in India's project of creating a high speed rail system, it was supposed to open last year, delayed to this year, now it's been said it will open in 2026. China, on the other hand, backed Indonesia's high speed rail project and it opened this year without any issues. I'm sorry but Japan is not what it used to be.
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  9.  @official-hb4mr  I'm talking about all of you and I've already told the others to stop comparing days ago, you came here and started saying the same thing so I'm telling you to stop comparing too.
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  10.  光宗耀祖啊  The Indian martial arts influenced the formation of martial arts in the Indosphere (South and Southeast Asia), not China. For example, silat (which is native to Singapore and other Malay areas of Southeast Asia) is related to a Tamil martial art. The association of Bodhidharma with Shaolin is not fully verified so I don't know why they're talking about China. Also, this video is about Singapore so I don't know why they're talking about China.
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  11.  @chillipanda1638  There is a native martial art in Singapore and it is not Chinese. It is called silat and is a traditional martial art of the indigenous Malay community of Singapore.
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  12.  @official-hb4mr  Did you read any of my comments or are you just trying to start an argument? Can you not see how I called all of them out for constantly comparing?
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  13.  @official-hb4mr  It really is not my problem if you haven't read through my comments and understood what I have said. Do not start an argument with me because you haven't read my comments properly.
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  14.  @alive9386  Are you aware that Asian cultures were culturally influenced by India and China? What makes you think they're very different? We all have similarities. China and India are the mother civilisations of Asia just like Greece and Rome of Europe. Also, what makes you think all East and Southeast Asians look the same? Sultan of Brunei looks more like an Indian despite being full Malay (Southeast Asian) and NE Indians aren't the only people that look East Asian or Southeast Asian in India. Can't believe someone just posed this comment and was serious about it lmaoo
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  15.  @noobihtake  Firstly, most of Sri Lanka's debt is owed to Western institutions. Secondly, this is why India will forever remain a poor country with only 10% ultra-rich people controlling most of the country's wealth and why all of the educated people will leave India in droves. So many educated Indian students move to my country to study and then they remain here and become PR of my country. Chinese students, on the other hand, come here and study and then move back.
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  16.  @user-gf5dr5nq6l  Malaysia is a lot richer than India but that's because of the Malaysian Chinese. Malaysian Chinese power the Malaysian economy and Malaysian Chinese (and Malaysian Indians) earn more money than the Malays. Despite the Bumiputera law and all the attempts to redistribute wealth, the ethnic Chinese and ethnic Indians still earn more money than the Malays. With all the discrimination against minorities in Malaysia, many Malaysian Chinese and Indians have left for Singapore and Australia and Malaysia's catastrophic brain drain has led to the country continuously failing to reach high income status (a target it should've reached by now). Now Malaysia's leaders lament at the lack of talent in the country that has been lost to Australia like they did earlier this year and the World Bank continues to warn that Malaysia will never reach high income status until it stops it brain drain.
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  17.  @user-gf5dr5nq6l  Lee Kuan Yew had a history of being blunt and making racially charged remarks on the Malays and infamously said that companies in Singapore should recruit more talent of Chinese, Indian and White origin with no mention of Malays. He though White people (who aren't even Singaporean) are more worthy of working in Singapore than Singapore's own indigenous people. Yikes. You think you're on a high horse but at this rate with everything we have seen in the history of Malaysia and Singapore, there is no high horse for you to even climb onto.
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  18.  @user-gf5dr5nq6l  Yeah just like the Indians leaving India but difference is that they aren't leaving due to discrimination, they're leaving cause their government can't create enough graduate jobs for them. Malaysia, on the other hand, is richer but its government can't get its priorities straight, it discriminates against the Malaysian Chinese and Malaysian Indians and is equally corrupt. There is a reason why most Malaysians outside of Malaysia are ethnically Chinese rather than Malay. Now if Malaysia got its priorities straight, the country would not be dealing with an uncontrollable brain drain. It has all the opportunities to be successful but can't do so because of its ultra pro-Malay and pro-Muslim voter base and politicians.
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  19.  光宗耀祖啊  Well you are a Southeast Asian of Chinese descent which would explain your feelings. Well I don't agree with any of them over their claims that Chinese martial arts are of Indian origin. I don't know why they're even saying that.
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  20.  @alive9386  India is older than Asia? Lmao what are you talking about? India is in Asia, what on earth makes you think India is older than the continent of Asia? India wasn't even a united country until the British colonised it.
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  21.  @noobihtake  Malaysia is an upper middle income nation. India is a lower middle income country and is already dealing with people moving out of the country in large numbers. India can't provide jobs to all of its people. Its STEM graduates end up leaving for other countries.
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  22.  @noobihtake  The CEOs of major American tech companies are all originally from India, talent that India lost but you still don't see the issue and so I can't help you then.
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  23.  @user-gf5dr5nq6l  Yeah no I'm not keen on any of that, I merely stated these facts because it's the only way for people like you to understand. No, I am not an Indian and I know everything that Lee Kuan Yew said, you don't have to tell me, I admire him a lot. I've read articles about him, I've read books on him, I've watched his interviews and I paid respect for him at one of the public tribute spaces for him.
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  24. So you want to rename South Asia with a colonial and Indo-centric term (Indian subcontinent)? So in other words, you dislike the use of "South Asia" because it makes India invisible. The only people who say this are people who believe the whole of South Asia and Southeast Asia belong to India. This is why you want every thing to have the name "Indian" in it. Stop making everything about India.
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  25. A Chinese larping as an Indian hating on the Philippines. Can you make it more clearer than it already is?
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  26. It's not actually. People have created this idea that China is the bogeyman but the reality is that the same conditions apply with FDI from the US or international institutions. There have been things happening with Uyghurs, like surveillance and apparent re-education but a lot of Uyghurs also live peacefully in the nation. The most popular actress in China is Dilireba, an actress of Uyghur who is famed for her "pan-Asian" looks and plethora of Chinese dramas she has starred in.
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  27. Also, Sheikh Hasina, prime minister of Bangladesh, said that a "white man" allegedly offered her safeguard to re-election if she accepted to the creation of a Christian state using parts of Bangladesh and Myanmar. International media has linked the "white man" to the US government based on apparent efforts from the US government to establish a military base in Bangladesh by leasing the island of Saint Martin island in order to fully surround China and contain its expansion in Asia. Sounds bizarre but it's not when you know that Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore was once offered a bribe of $3.3 million by the US government to cover up the CIA's attempt at trying to buy information from a Singapore intelligence officer back in 1965 when the country was undeveloped.
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  28.  @xa-xii7981  Well the Caribbean has a lot of high income nations and if there is any country in South Asia that will become a high income nation in the next 10-15 years, it's the Maldives.
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  29.  @alive9386  This is why India needs to stop fighting with China and just accept Chinese cooperation. Chinese government and Chinese state media are literally extending a hand to India and y'all keep refusing it. Look at how these outsiders keep trying to divide up Asia without knowing anything about us, just like they did during the colonial days. China is literally the future for this region's stability. Accept it like the rest of us have.
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  30.  @noobihtake  You don't know what type of problems lay ahead of India as a result of this. India's brain drain is going to be like Malaysia's brain drain.
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  31.  @noobihtake  It's going to be extremely catastrophic. Do you know Malaysia is suffering from a such a severe brain drain that the country's own politicians express regret and anger at all of the educated people that leave their country? The World Bank even issued a warning to Malaysia about how Malaysia's brain drain is now preventing the country from becoming high income.
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  32.  @noobihtake  The British did unite India. India was a collection of kingdoms until the British unified everything from Baluchistan to Assam. Bangladesh and Pakistan becoming countries happened, a lot, lot later.
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  33.  @noobihtake  I don't need to go and do any homework, I know what I am talking about. Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel became deputy prime minister of India in 1947, after India gained independence. Nagaland, Andaman Islands, Lakshadweep etc. became part of India because of the British, that is a fact.
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  34.  @noobihtake  The way you just look past my attempts at instilling unity in the Asia-Pacific region because of nationalism is a disgrace. ...even when one is trying to be positive and encourage unity, there will always be someone there to say "no" and be antagonistic smh
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  35.  @noobihtake  Where do you think the concept of the Princely State emerged from? It's a concept that emerged in British India. Those princely states were under the suzerainty of the British. In other words, it's because of the British.
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  36.  @LisaCutie409  You Indians and Pakistanis continuously fight over the most trivial of things. I'm not interested in any of that. Thank you, next.
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  37.  @HoodQueen258  and what am I supposed to do with that information? Is it related to what I am talking about? No. Sorry but I'm not interested in this war that y'all have. You Indians and Pakistanis are always fighting. Don't drag me into your conflict please.
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  38.  @lilywu6208  No it's "Asian"! Stop thinking "Asian" means proximity to China. It doesn't. Stop gatekeeping that term. India is in Asia and I was talking about several more Asian nations, so I said "Asian". Get over it and no you're wrong. India is not more like African cultures or people. Do some reading ASAP I'm not even from India and yet I know enough to tell you that you're wrong.. These Americans and their dilapidated education system.
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  39.  @lilywu6208  You said the same thing last time too, bombarding my mentions with the same comment. No, you're incredibly wrong. I don't know why these Americans struggle so much with geography.
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  40.  @lilywu6208  No it's "Asian". Stop thinking "Asian" means proximity to China. It doesn't. It's just a name of a continent. So stop gatekeeping that term. India is in Asia and I was talking about several more Asian nations/groups, so I said "Asian".
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  41.  @lilywu6208  Also, you're wrong. India is not more like African cultures or people. Do some reading ASAP, I'm not even from India and yet I know enough to tell you that you're wrong. A grown adult woman and still struggling with basic human geography. Good grief...
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  42.  @ArmageddonIsHere  India has a job crisis. Whatever talent remains in that country will be lost if they don't solve that issue.
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  43.  @ArmageddonIsHere  No they did because there are areas in modern India that would separate countries or part of another country had they never colonised India. So no, that's not a lie. Sorry.
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  44. They're literally described as as a "new Asian Tiger economy" and have a goal of becoming a high income developed country by 2041.
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  45.  @user-gf5dr5nq6l  Also, I do agree that India is an artificial country. What exactly does a Tamil have in common with a Punjabi? What does a Sikkimese person have in common with an Andamanese? An Assamese is completely different to a Rajasthani. Each state in that country has its own ethnic group, culture and language. They hate each other, even people in the same state can't get along (look at Manipur). There is literally ethnic violence towards people from different states. The people in the south are angry that people from the north are moving to their states, cause they're more wealthy. Yeah it's an artificial country. Now do you have anything else to say to me or are we ending this discussion?
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  46.  @artus198  Indian subcontinent is a name of colonial origin and only a few hundreds years old and never described the entirety of South Asia! Indian hegemony, no wonder anti-Indian sentiment is rising across South Asia and Myanmar. Y'all believe the whole of Asia belongs to India. The whole of South Asia is not India, understand that. Nobody calls it Indian subcontinent unless you're a Hindutva believer.
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  47.  @artus198  I do understand what Hinduism and I merely stated the word "Hindutva" and you're throwing a tantrum. I literally said "Hindutva believers", nothing negative but you're here throwing a tantrum. Like I said, nobody goes around calling it Indian subcontinent except for Hindutva people.
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  48.  @artus198  Did you read my reply? I said "Hindutva believers", I said nothing else so I don't know why you're obsessing over that word. If you're this pressed over my using that word then obviously I've hit a nerve. Like I said before, Hindutva people are the only people who think India owns the whole of South and Southeast Asia.
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  49.  @artus198  Like I said before, the Indian subcontinent is a term only used by Hindutva because they want to make everything about India.
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  50.  @artus198  So you're cussing me out in your language because I spoke the truth. Go cry.
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