Poor child development is not equivalent to bad parenting though.
The amount of time where a child spent growing up plays the main part of development. No matter how much parents play a part, if the kids spent most of his time elsewhere growing up, they will be influenced by that external source. Let it be from school, circle of friends and the internet.
For Amos, the biggest source of influence was from the internet. The reason he ended up like that was because he idolised the westerns too much. That's why he picked up that accent even though he had never stayed in western countries before.
Actually, many Singaporeans are also influenced from the internet. For example, some people grew up with animes. They end up idolising Japan and adapt Japanese nicknames. That's how internet shapes a person growing up. It depends how much you can control and allow it to influence you. For Amos case with his western-influence dreams, it has become too extreme till he become like that. If internet doesn't exist, Amos would've a better self-esteem towards his Asian identity and wouldn't end up like that. It's the society which created Amos.
There's no way to avoid this. Banning modern kids from internet have more con then pros in this age of technology. Nowdays education and knowledge relies alot on internet and social media. The minimal thing you can do is to keep track on your kids internet history. Make sure he don't start idolising something to the extreme to the point he develop low-self esteem towards his own asian/singaporean/race identity.
