Let Me See Your Identification (USA)

Post by **K. A. Pital** » 2008-02-01 02:08pm

Then I guess it was a usual toll booth, probably italian. It just looked kind of a huge post, but then we passed several similar ones later on the roads.

Xisiqomelir · Post by **Xisiqomelir** » 2008-02-01 02:13pm

ray245 wrote:Wait...americans don't even bring their passport with them when they are overseas?

What is with americans fears of 'papers'

Isn't it better to ask why Singaporeans don't mind being saddled with an obtrusive, suffocating and offensive NRIC system?

Post by **Colonel Olrik** » 2008-02-01 02:23pm

Stas Bush wrote:Then I guess it was a usual toll booth, probably italian. It just looked kind of a huge post, but then we passed several similar ones later on the roads.

Must have been. Those things are everywhere in Italy. Italian's greed for toll money plus their usual disorganized way of doing things ensures that it's very easy to know when you're leaving Austria. The regret comes almost instantly.

Post by **K. A. Pital** » 2008-02-01 02:29pm

Those things are everywhere in Italy

Yeah, it was kind of shocking. But then, italians also charge you 20 euros for swimming on a rather dirty sand beach for a few hours.

Fingolfin_Noldor · Post by **Fingolfin_Noldor** » 2008-02-01 04:58pm

Xisiqomelir wrote:
ray245 wrote:Wait...americans don't even bring their passport with them when they are overseas?

What is with americans fears of 'papers'
Isn't it better to ask why Singaporeans don't mind being saddled with an obtrusive, suffocating and offensive NRIC system?

Because.... they constantly live in a state of paranoia perpetuated by our dear Govt?

ray245 · Post by **ray245** » 2008-02-01 10:50pm

Xisiqomelir wrote:
ray245 wrote:Wait...americans don't even bring their passport with them when they are overseas?

What is with americans fears of 'papers'
Isn't it better to ask why Singaporeans don't mind being saddled with an obtrusive, suffocating and offensive NRIC system?

Bah...at the least most singaporeans has travelled to more countries as compared to americans...you know...travelling to countries where you need a passport?

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2008-02-02 12:24am

General Zod wrote:
ray245 wrote: So does that means most americans has never been to countries outside north and south america?
Most Americans have never been out of the US period. Partly due to how large the US on its own is, partly due to travel being expensive and partly due to most people not needing to leave the country.

Americans also get far less paid vacation than most of their European counterparts, and generally only speak English.

Fingolfin_Noldor · Post by **Fingolfin_Noldor** » 2008-02-02 12:42am

ray245 wrote:Bah...at the least most singaporeans has travelled to more countries as compared to americans...you know...travelling to countries where you need a passport?

And that means anything? It just means there's nothing to do in SIngapore, if you haven't yet noticed.

AniThyng · Post by **AniThyng** » 2008-02-02 01:02am

ray245 wrote:
Xisiqomelir wrote:
ray245 wrote:Wait...americans don't even bring their passport with them when they are overseas?

What is with americans fears of 'papers'
Isn't it better to ask why Singaporeans don't mind being saddled with an obtrusive, suffocating and offensive NRIC system?
Bah...at the least most singaporeans has travelled to more countries as compared to americans...you know...travelling to countries where you need a passport?

Like what, JB?

Big deal, that.

That said, I don't really find the NRIC system to be obtrusive, suffocating and offensive, but I don't feel oppressed enough to flee to a western liberal democracy, so maybe that's just me

Glocksman · Post by **Glocksman** » 2008-02-02 01:07am

ray245 wrote:Bah...at the least most singaporeans has travelled to more countries as compared to americans...you know...travelling to countries where you need a passport?

Of course the USA spans 3,794,066 square miles, instead of Singapore's 272 square miles.

In other words, while I'd love to visit other countries, there are those pesky factors of cost, time, and distance that prevent me from doing so.

Now if I could visit Canada or Mexico after driving 200 miles, I'd do so.
However, my grandma in Edmonton is at least a week away if I drive.

Fingolfin_Noldor · Post by **Fingolfin_Noldor** » 2008-02-02 01:38am

AniThyng wrote:Like what, JB? Big deal, that.

That said, I don't really find the NRIC system to be obtrusive, suffocating and offensive, but I don't feel oppressed enough to flee to a western liberal democracy, so maybe that's just me

You do realise that, in M'sia and Singapore, the point of putting race and religion in the NRIC is to deliberately discriminate? You probably don't know public policy too much, but in Singapore, it is clear and present particularly in the SAF. I suppose it is all fine and well to be oppressed, and I do know of M'sian Chinese who do prefer to be anywhere but Malaysia for that sole reason of official discrimination.