User talk:Anythi

Foreign Talent and their negative effects
Many had cheered on Team Singapore on their quest to end our medal drought. However, many people, Singapore citizens and people around the world are questioning the integrity of the medal. There is no doubt the Singapore has a Silver medal in 2008 Olympics. Unfortunately, it spurs to the question of \'buying medal\' in Olympics. The whole of the female team is made up of China-born Singaporeans. Though they are naturalised or maybe not, forums are wondering if we should continue such a trend. Are we proud of them (or ourselves) when they get our flag to be risen in the prize presentation? Another implication as a result of using foreign talent to deliver medal is the wrong mindset developed as a by-product. Do we rather buy results than to nurture our own pool of talent to obtain medals? How do the local talent feel? Are they outcasted and left behind? The final and most important effect of foreign talent undermines the purpose of sports. The purpose of sports has always been as a platform to cultivate relationships among countries. However, if we have to buy talent to do that, it does speak something about our country. It leads to other societal problems as well. No doubt, it is indeed detrimental to kids that we are incompetent to our overseas peers. This would definitely snowball to a bigger societal problem which could be unforeseen in the future. I suppose elitist grows from the same theory and principle. Foreign talent policy does not apply to sports only. Economists have highlighted the importance of foreign talent. However, in both cases, overdoing it would only bring in more problems.