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For the fifty years of its existence, Singapore has witnessed very few instances of inter-racial tensions and certainly no major terrorist threat. According to the government census, there are currently 74.3% Chinese, 13.3% Malays, 9.1% Indians, and 3.3% “Others”. Furthermore, according to a recent survey, more than 90% of Singaporeans are comfortable with having people of other races and religions as neighbors or colleagues. In an interview for International Herald Tribune, Singapore’s founding father, Mr Lee Kuan Yew, lectured the US on social cohesion and equality, attributing his country’s economic success to the racial harmony in the society.https://www.historycampus.org/2016/c...ticulturalism/
At least 80% of residents in Singapore live in public housing and according to Singapore law, all public housing buildings must have a mixture of nationalities. Ethnically segregated neighborhoods is illegal there.
The percentage of Muslims in Singapore is similar in numbers as the great cities of Paris and London, yet there has not been a major terrorist attack or threat there.
Ethnically segregated neighborhoods is illegal there.
That's your issue of why it won't work in the west.
Problem is that ethnic groups do and should have a right to live in neighborhoods that meet their cultural heritage.
You don't have the option in Singapore to self segregate, so you'd never really have a neighborhood that is Black, or Asian, or Jewish, no Chinatown, or Little Italy either.
For the fifty years of its existence, Singapore has witnessed very few instances of inter-racial tensions and certainly no major terrorist threat. According to the government census, there are currently 74.3% Chinese, 13.3% Malays, 9.1% Indians, and 3.3% “Others”. Furthermore, according to a recent survey, more than 90% of Singaporeans are comfortable with having people of other races and religions as neighbors or colleagues. In an interview for International Herald Tribune, Singapore’s founding father, Mr Lee Kuan Yew, lectured the US on social cohesion and equality, attributing his country’s economic success to the racial harmony in the society.https://www.historycampus.org/2016/c...ticulturalism/
At least 80% of residents in Singapore live in public housing and according to Singapore law, all public housing buildings must have a mixture of nationalities. Ethnically segregated neighborhoods is illegal there.
The percentage of Muslims in Singapore is similar in numbers as the great cities of Paris and London, yet there has not been a major terrorist attack or threat there.
The Western World can learn a lot from Singapore.
What do you think they can learn from Singapore? I reckon we can learn a bit about strict law and order enforcement. I think that has more to do with social harmony than quota systems on public housing.
For the fifty years of its existence, Singapore has witnessed very few instances of inter-racial tensions and certainly no major terrorist threat. According to the government census, there are currently 74.3% Chinese, 13.3% Malays, 9.1% Indians, and 3.3% “Others”. Furthermore, according to a recent survey, more than 90% of Singaporeans are comfortable with having people of other races and religions as neighbors or colleagues. In an interview for International Herald Tribune, Singapore’s founding father, Mr Lee Kuan Yew, lectured the US on social cohesion and equality, attributing his country’s economic success to the racial harmony in the society.https://www.historycampus.org/2016/c...ticulturalism/
At least 80% of residents in Singapore live in public housing and according to Singapore law, all public housing buildings must have a mixture of nationalities. Ethnically segregated neighborhoods is illegal there.
The percentage of Muslims in Singapore is similar in numbers as the great cities of Paris and London, yet there has not been a major terrorist attack or threat there.
The Western World can learn a lot from Singapore.
That’s because they have draconian laws. It is a police state.
That's your issue of why it won't work in the west.
Problem is that ethnic groups do and should have a right to live in neighborhoods that meet their cultural heritage.
You don't have the option in Singapore to self segregate, so you'd never really have a neighborhood that is Black, or Asian, or Jewish, no Chinatown, or Little Italy either.
Well is a little India in Singapore and I managed to visit that district in Singapore with the Indian foods and ships, yet not everyone lives there is ethnic Indian.
#1. Look at the constituents of the "ethnic mix."
#2. They got some hard ass laws there. And enforce the crap out of them.
#3. It has a very high standard of living for all people.
#4. It has very high standards for citizenship.
Well is a little India in Singapore and I managed to visit that district in Singapore with the Indian foods and ships, yet not everyone lives there is ethnic Indian.
Then its little India in name only.
Chinatown, Little Italy, etc are or were self segregating communities. You found it difficult to get housing or renting if you did not share the ethnicities of the neighborhood.
For the fifty years of its existence, Singapore has witnessed very few instances of inter-racial tensions and certainly no major terrorist threat. According to the government census, there are currently 74.3% Chinese, 13.3% Malays, 9.1% Indians, and 3.3% “Others”. Furthermore, according to a recent survey, more than 90% of Singaporeans are comfortable with having people of other races and religions as neighbors or colleagues. In an interview for International Herald Tribune, Singapore’s founding father, Mr Lee Kuan Yew, lectured the US on social cohesion and equality, attributing his country’s economic success to the racial harmony in the society.https://www.historycampus.org/2016/c...ticulturalism/
At least 80% of residents in Singapore live in public housing and according to Singapore law, all public housing buildings must have a mixture of nationalities. Ethnically segregated neighborhoods is illegal there.
The percentage of Muslims in Singapore is similar in numbers as the great cities of Paris and London, yet there has not been a major terrorist attack or threat there.
The Western World can learn a lot from Singapore.
If their demographic makeup is 74.3% Chinese. That doesn't make them multi-cultural. It means they have a very dominant demographic and culture with just some minority ones living among them. That's the only way a society can co-exist peacefully.
What do you think they can learn from Singapore? I reckon we can learn a bit about strict law and order enforcement. I think that has more to do with social harmony than quota systems on public housing.
Well Singapore has come a long way from the 1960s when it was part of Malayisa and with it were massive race riots, to today as it never happens. This begain with Singapore first leaderFounding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew had, in 1965, promised to build a multiracial nation. He said on Aug 9 that year: "This is not a Malay nation; this is not a Chinese nation; this is not an Indian nation. Everyone will have his place, equal: language, culture, religion.
That speech was well ahead of that time, In the vast majority of the world then, the thought that everyone has his place; equal language, culture and religion would not be imaginable.
OnePeople.Sg in 2013 found that more than 90 per cent of the 2,000-plus Chinese respondents said they were comfortable with Indians and Malays as neighbors and employees - and about 85 per cent as close friends. That is a higher ranking than the neighbouring countries. the Singapore government has worked very hard to strive to maintain good race and cultural relations.
If their demographic makeup is 74.3% Chinese. That doesn't make them multi-cultural. It means they have a very dominant demographic and culture with just some minority ones living among them. That's the only way a society can co-exist peacefully.
90% said they would be fine living next to/close by other cultures. That number would be absurdly high in this country.
Has nothing to do with 74% being Chinese. When the U.S. was overwhelmingly caucasian, racism and strife was rampant.
Has more to do, IMO, with the fact that core values very similar amongst the 3 largest groups there. Family. Education. Tradition. Work ethic. And they share some less desirable cultural traits - rigidity, slow social progress, less value of individuality.
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That's the only way a society can co-exist peacefully.
