It’s been a pretty vibrant past few months for the issue of race relations in Singapore, with the matter of Chinese Privilege being brought up several times.
There’s the time when Kiss92 DJ Joshua Simon pointed out the lack of racial diversity in local media; there’s the time when a PrimaDeli manager displayed extreme prejudice to a potential employee; there’s the time when Tampines Mall rejected a request by a Malay businesswoman to set up a fair due to “mainly Chinese” target audience.
Then there’s also that one time when some folks weren’t happy with the fact that non-Chinese model Nadia Rahmat was picked as the Singaporean representative of beauty.
Being such a hot topic, YouTubers MunahHirzi applied their well-honed skills in parody and ribald comedy to bring up the issue in their latest music video — a mangled cover of Rihanna’s ‘Work’. Starring several cameos by other YouTube celebrities, the most important appearance is none other than Nadia Rahmat herself, who takes centrestage in this alternate universe where Minahs are the standard definition of beauty.
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