Singapore rated in bottom 10 of world’s most courteous cities

I stayed near Ghim Moh bus inter­change & takes a bus from there to work daily. How­ever, very incon­sid­er­ate res­i­dents that are stay­ing 2–3 bus stops away tend to walk all the way here & rush up the bus to hog all the bus seats thus mak­ing less seats avail­able for res­i­dents stay­ing near to the bus interchange.

Huh, could be you arent even aware of what you are talk­ing about. US is a coun­try where peo­ple are kind..Of course, if you are doing some­thing that doesnt deserve cour­tesy, you wont get it..

Asians are among the worst peo­ple, they dont cher­ish for­eign friend­ship much and hate to talk to foreigners..i think thai­land is one of the out­stand­ing coun­try in Asia..Other than that would be indonesia..All the rest arent there yet, they need more humanity..

French is a sophis­ti­cated cul­ture with a long civ­i­liza­tion, and gen­er­ally we are very kind and cour­te­ous, and we pride our­selves with our great cul­ture and one of the best fine lan­guage in this world. So, it should even be higher..Singapore or malaysia cant com­pare to that..

There is no doubt that sin­ga­pore­ans are rude. I think they should have been in 35. They are racists too.

Then if you cant speak Eng­lish at least use your body lan­guage in a way that it is not “ignor­ing” the per­son who ask you the ques­tion. Show to him/her POLITELY that you really dont under­stand him/her. AND DO SMILE. I wasnt born to speak Eng­lish either. It isnt my mother tongue, but GRACIOUSNESS is in my blood. Unlike ugly Sin­ga­pore­ans. I’m Asian too, by the way.

Can you give us rea­sons why do you think so? You cant point out a con­clu­sion with­out proper ratio­nal­iza­tions and justifications.

I think it is biased because the one who did the sur­vey must be of a Cau­casian descent, which explains why all the most cour­te­ous cities are Euro­peans or Amer­i­can cities. Per­haps they are more wel­comed there due to their skin colour. But say­ing that Sin­ga­pore­ans are rude isn’t rub­bish either as we all know a lot of for­eign­ers (Asians included), don’t find Sin­ga­pore­ans friendly. It is, in fact, the truth.

sin­ga­pore­ans do not know they are rude and ungra­cious until they visit 1st world coun­tries and even 3rd world coun­tries eg Indone­sia.. Exam­ple of rude­ness not hold­ing lifts forr oth­ers, rush­ing into trains before oth­ers get out, not greet­ing peo­ple, plac­ing tis­sues to deprive those quev­ing up ear­lier of place, not giv­ing way to oth­ers turn­ing left or right or when dri­vers revers­ing half way they barge ahead. how­ever it is notice­able sin­ga­porean tried to appear polite infront of white vis­i­tors and being help­ful to them whilst ignor­ing others.

No won­der peo­ple think Sin­ga­pore­ans are rude,I am a sin­ga­porean myself and i think that is quite rude…

i really agree that sin­ga­pore­ans are rude.
i am study­ing as a for­eigner at one of gov­ern­ment sec­ondary school in here for about 2 years .
they are really racist. they like to boast about their own coun­try how­ever , if we try to say neg­a­tive things about their coun­try , they’ll angry and will say ” go back to your coun­try then ” i don’t think this is a good manner

it’s appalling btw

Nation­al­ism is just a milder form of fas­cism, and yes I agree Sin­ga­pore­ans are the rud­est peo­ple I’ve met, WORSE than China, and that’s say­ing some­thing. Tai­wanese are mostly friendly, but get offended very eas­ily. I’m Malaysian liv­ing in Brunei, and I’m ashamed to say that  in terms of man­ners, Malaysia is far behind Brunei — on the roads of Brunei, you’ll prob­a­bly hear a honk once every 3 days or so, Malaysia…probably 30 honks everyday.

Aren’t u being rude by call­ing them ugly with­out prop­erly get­ting to know them. Just because they are rude, it does not mean u have to be too…

I find the snob­bish French stereo­type very untrue. A stranger helped me with my lug­gage in the Parisian metro. Peo­ple on the streets approached us to ask if we needed direc­tions, before we even asked! Every sin­gle Euro­pean coun­try I’ve been to is much more polite than Sin­ga­pore. I actu­ally am ashamed of my own peo­ple. Think about it, why would Reader’s Digest lie?

Kan-cheong peo­ple like always..

I’ve been to both NY and Sin­ga­pore and I can tell you, ppl may think NYers seem cold and unap­proach­able but in actu­al­ity when help is needed they’d offer it a heart­beat. But sadly I can’t say the same for Sin­ga­pore, I’ve been liv­ing in Sin­ga­pore for 2 years  I never really liked nor dis­liked the peo­ple up until a few months ago. I’d been sick and fainted at Bedok MRT sta­tion,… no one came to help me. I was appalled and dis­gusted in a way, how can peo­ple be so cold as to offer no help what­so­ever to a girl in need? One school girl actu­ally had the nerve to take out a phone and start tak­ing pictures/video.  Tell me, what kind of dis­gust­ing behav­ior is this?

Recently came back to sin­ga­pore and it gave me a shock because I for­got how rude some peo­ple are, espe­cially the old ladies doing blue col­lar jobs. But then again doc­tors and GPs are also very rude and patro­n­is­ing. The old hokkien or Can­tonese peo­ple who cant com­mu­ni­cate in Eng­lish prop­erly will get frus­trated at you if you don’t under­stand them! And they’ll treat you like you’re dumb. I find more edu­cated peo­ple less rude, although it may vary.

I have been in Sin­ga­pore for 5 years and work­ing as pro­fes­sional. Based on my expe­ri­ence I have to admit that typ­i­cal Sin­ga­pore­ans are quite rude. I am not say­ing all of them, but most of them. They speak to the peo­ple based on the level of that peo­ple. If you are white skin or from West­ern and Europe they will be very nice. But if you look Asian and from the neigh­bor coun­tries , they way that they treat and speak are very unpro­fes­sional and rude.

I am sorry to say that, but that’s true based on my experience.