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National Identity - Coggle Diagram
National Identity
Unlucky Plaza
Onassis wants to get a pink IC to be like Popoy, and after everything still hopes that his citizenship application will be successful
Onassis counters Popoy's nonchalance towards Singapore, saying "Everything here is clean, everything works. I don't need to worry about you taking the bus. The roads are smooth, the traffic is great." and compares it to Manila, which is lacking -- shows the value he places on SURVIVAL in a home
When Ruby accuses Onassis of bringing shame to the Pinoys, Onassis is unhappy at being labelled a Pinoy
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"Us Pinoys? Why, where are you from?"
When Ruby replies "Quezon", he says "I'm from here", showing that he no longer sees himself in solidarity with Filipinos
When holding everyone hostage and demanding a helicopter, he has no destination in mind, suggesting that he cannot see himself living anywhere else
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a rant
Critiques how literature in Singapore does not usually represent races that are not of the four main races
"I want to hear a poem about my country./You know,/something that represents me?"
chope
Singaporean norms - talking "towards the prospect of a hdb", using a tissue packet to chope
Everest
Living vs. Belonging
Mother wants to stay in Singapore for practical reasons, while Meena wants to stay because she can't imagine home elsewhere
Mother: "There's a safer future here than anywhere else ... Look at this country - no drugs, no crime." (Possible comparison with Onassis in "Unlucky Plaza"
Meena: "If we went back to India, nothing we had here would look right in our new place."
Meena: "This is not living, Dad always said, but we were living, weren't we? We are here, making the world's most impossible terrain out of concrete steps and steel railings."