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From vampiric to vulnerable - how foreigners are portrayed in Singapore films
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SINGAPORE - Ignorant, second-rate, morally degenerate and even vampiric.
These are some of the ways in which elite foreigners - usually male Westerners - have been portrayed in Singapore films since the 1990s, noted Professor Kenneth Paul Tan in a paper titled The Foreigner In Singapore Films.
