The Pilipino Independence Day Council Singapore (PIDCS), a group of Filipino volunteers, put up a post on Facebook about the event to held the Philippines Independence Day celebration at Ngee Ann City last weekend and drew fire almost immediately from Singaporeans especially.
Personally dun think there is anything wrong with celebrating Independence Day or National Day as even Singaporeans do so when they are overseas. I have friends in Aust who celebrated Singapore's National Day in hotel function halls while some simply do so with a simple gathering at friend's home.
The trigger I believe which cause such negative feedback is actually the venue rather than the fact of celebrating. Some nationals celebrated their Independence day in Singapore by holding events similar to this but none actually organised in the city area before or at least not that I know of.
The feedback came as a shock to PIDCS, though they still intend to proceed with the celebration on June 8 at Ngee Ann City's Civic Plaza, pending approval of permits from the authorities.
More info here.
Personally dun think there is anything wrong with celebrating Independence Day or National Day as even Singaporeans do so when they are overseas. I have friends in Aust who celebrated Singapore's National Day in hotel function halls while some simply do so with a simple gathering at friend's home.
The trigger I believe which cause such negative feedback is actually the venue rather than the fact of celebrating. Some nationals celebrated their Independence day in Singapore by holding events similar to this but none actually organised in the city area before or at least not that I know of.
The feedback came as a shock to PIDCS, though they still intend to proceed with the celebration on June 8 at Ngee Ann City's Civic Plaza, pending approval of permits from the authorities.
More info here.
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