Does it still matter in today's world????

Most of my frens say I am English educated... meaning westernised in point of view... instead of chinese educated being asian in point of view.

Does it really make a difference being westernised or easternised?

for some reason i thought you were malay Tanga

i grew up in western society and i used to think i'm pretty westernised and people say i am but when you compare western to eastern culture, western culture is pretty bland and lacklustre.

i appreciate and probably prefer eastern cultures, much richer.

Your organisation of social values influence your perspective.
No doubt values are pretty universal, the stacking order are quite different between east and west.

No, i am chinese of malay ancestry.. peranakan

but most peranakans are English (read : convent school) educated these days..




richer? hmmm... materially speaking, the western culture is richer

do u mean spiritual or culturally speaking, the asian culture is more varied and different and hence richer??



fundamentally, i actually don't see that much difference between easternization and westernization...... really, at the end of the day, u think there is a difference but it's just appearances.... people's instinctual beliefs and actions are still fundamentally the same, whether you are English educated or asian educated.. I dunno about middle eastern educated tho...

i don't think you can be properly westernised unless you grew up in the west .

@ Tanga , Peranakan like this girl





r u as hot as her ??

yes

I dunno. I was educated in SG but ppl say that I have a very westernized point of view and because of that, most of the time, people don't believe that I was born and grew up in an Asian country.

It's absolutely repulsive how any of us can come to be "Westernized" even so far away from their vile nations.

You're not American? You yourself are pretty damn westernized for someone so far from the "vile" western world.

LOL. I thought you were a guy until I read your message above^

i don't think it matters whether you are westernized or easternized as long as you don't think eastern values are not as important as western values and vice versa ... i think a balance is the best we should learn the best from the West and Keeps the best Of eastern values/ tradition

Can u be a Singaporean, and not be Westernised nor Easternised?

Can u be an American, and not be Westernised nor Easternised?

cool i'll look u up when i'm next in s'pore

singaporean is overall still eastern, than asian in America :p

Look up for the family name 'tan' in the phone book. shouldn't be too difficult to find. Good luck.

i meant culturally richer.

dude, i live in africa now... sorry gonna miss ya!




Singapore is Uniquely Singapore! Neither here nor there...

i'm fairly mobile

A mix of both I'd say.

I hate being classified as either. Who decides what falls onto what category

I wouldn't want to be tagged with either; easternised or westernised
call me contemporised

Very much so, I'm afraid. It makes a big difference. Western-minded girls socialize differently. For one thing, they don't go to Buddhist Temples to pray for a good husband; they go out and look for one.

Most of the Singaporeans don't even realize that their culture are somewhere in between east and west. Singaporean culture is essentially a 'mixed rojak' culture (or if you want to say, "multi-cultural"). It is essentially an unique asian society (immigrants-based society) with localized Singaporean culture (for e.g. Singlish), but surrounded by various other culture such as Chinese, Malay, Indian, Western, Islamic etc.

puaf... how the heck do u get a husband by praying in a temple???

For me it doesnt matter. I consider my self multicultural.
I take the best aspects from all.