A former expatriate’s attempt at Singlish in a TikTok video seems to have divided netizens on the matter, especially after he was called out by one for being racist.
In a TikTok video uploaded on March 30, Tom Birchy, who grew up in Singapore and now resides in Thailand, tried his hand at the local patois, at the request of a commenter.In response, Birchy uploaded a separate TikTok denouncing Caleb for his remark. In the caption, he wrote that"my Singaporean accent is racist according to British people couldn't find Singapore on a map".
"Considering I went to school in Singapore, and grew up there, I think I'm allowed to do that," he says in the video.
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