There's quite a lot of post that I'd proly miss sum.
BrainFailure is a Chinese National, so she proly will feel sentimental about China, but she will also know more about China than us Singaporeans. I think we would defend Singapore the same way if Chinese nationals were to pass less that pleasant comments.
Similarly, I guess there must be some Singaporeans who may have screwed up some lives of Chinese nationals and that of their family, given that there are so much interaction between Singapore & China, will that put you (NAK) an unrelated person of that incident guilty of what someone else has done? Whoever that has done harm to you and your family, if you need to hate, than hate that particular person and not the whole world. It was just pure unfortunate that the person happens to be Chinese national, it could be a Singaporean. What if it is really a Singaporean, are you going to hate yourself as well?
NAK, I guess I wouldn'n know what painful experience that was, but hating is so much more painful than forgiving.
Root or no root, we all carry the human dna and not that of animals.
Disliking of traits and behavior of other races or nationalities may be equated to why some people dislike Metal and prefer Jazz, dislike Ronin and prefer JJ Lin etc. If we can try accept all kinds of musc genre, we can also try accept peole who, for no fault of theirs, behave in a certain manner.