New Community in this Country
Well you could have guessed, our country has flooded with foreign workers doing work that no one else would do: housekeeping, construction, waiting at tables at a local coffee shop and so on. It’s not that is a problem or something, while our country has an open door-policy to welcome foreign workforce, it inevitably has created a new community within our already diverse Malaysian community.
Well, this is what I saw opposite my house. Two of my neighbours across the street both have foreign maids to babysit their kids. While the kids are at play, the maids are chatting away as they collect their laundry outside their yards. I was there thinking: that’s the same activities housewives like my mom and her neighbours did few years ago! I wonder where are the mothers and the whole "community spirit" gone to.
When it is nice and dandy to include a new element of our community, sometimes they are the ones causing the problem in the society. A lot of cases of petty crimes are mostly invovled foreign workers, stirring up the not-so peaceful community here.
Foreign workforce: A growing community I say.
