By Roots | Singapore |
This satirical print is captioned “Sikhs prefer Chinese with Queues”, suggesting that Chinese criminals were easier to catch and handle when their queues were intact. The image depicts one such scene, supposedly in Singapore, of a Sikh policeman handling a group of Chinese wrongdoers by their queues, amid a sea of diverse onlookers on a busy street.
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