When he was growing up, business developer Seah Cheng, 26, never paid attention to the migrant workers who cleaned his Housing Board block or swept the streets, though he crossed paths with them every day.
Instead, his impressions of them were shaped by negative stereotypes and anecdotes shared by friends and family - some warned him against migrant workers, saying they would "kidnap" him. Others poked fun at their skin colour and food, and claimed that they smelled.
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