Singaporean
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- Why are Singaporeans so money minded?
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[edit] going West for waht?
From the News here ..(SINGAPORE) Outgoing CapitaLand deputy chairman Hsuan Owyang has been closely tracking Wall Street every day for the past 56 years, and so the current financial crisis came as no surprise to him.
..A Singaporean who is now a U.S.citizen, does anyone know why he choose to be U.S. citizen? perhaps only he know better. He is a successful person and know the Wall street business for over fifty years!
[edit] Go watch abanned trailer about Singaporeans [[1]]
Actually it is a locally produced award winning picture!
[edit] QUOTES
- THE GREATEST fear is death, then fear of uncertainty however most Singaporeans never know what's to live without fear..we must learn to cultivate love and trust, a positive natural environment to develop our mind sets for the good of All - including the unborn Singaporeans if we are to survive the good or hard times:[[User:Terry|wowowow|]] 10:03, 2 October 2008 (SGT)
[edit] Secret:
- The simple secret of all success is found in the hearts of all the people who know and practice what is LOVE. It is the core or our humanity where we may find dignity and purpose for living: Alien talk 02:05, 11 July 2007 (SGT)
Old Singaporean MP
A former teacher and principal of a Chinese Primary school in old Chye Kay village left (departed) behind his wife (Madam Tan Kim Whay), and elder son Daniel Leong 43 and loved ones on Wednesday (9th May, 2007). He was an elected assemblyman under PAP but left the party in 1961.
Mr. Leong, 78 served as parliamentary secretary for education under PAP garmen between 1959-60 before leaving the party to start afresh with the left wing Barisan Sosialis . He was detained by the garmen for about one year under ISA
- Below is an interview conduct by Sgwiki's Alien before he moved out of the shop house in AMK Ave. 4 (news sources also in the Strait Times on Saturday May 12,2007 page H5 under HOME )03:44, 14 May 2007 (SGT)
Mister Leong Keng Seng formerly MP (Serangoon Gardens) who lived here for many year (over 31 years in the community and nobody knew he was an MP , also a former member of the PAP (People Action Party} !
- goto see him in person here, >>>>>clik here[[2]]
- All are born free
- Emancipation
- All are born free
- All are born equal
- All are destined to die
- Each and everyone is given a name
- Each and everbody has the right to choose
- All are accountable to one another
- That is basics to all human constitution
- But Some may claim
- All are born free, but some more freer than others
- All are born equal, but some more equal than others
- Each and everyone is given an ID plus a name or nickname name too @alias then U choose Ur a.k.a.
- Each and everyone has the right, some more right than others
- All are destined to die, but some are destined to live as if forever!
- All are accountable, but they want other to be given accounts
- This is basically what we do to our own constitution
[edit] The Search for a true identity
The period after Singapore's withdrawal from Malaysia in 1965 saw much public discussion of Singaporean identity. The discussion tended to use terms, categories, and basic assumptions provided by the government and ruling party. One basic assumption was that there was not, at least in the late 1960s and 1970s, a common Singaporean identity, but that there should be. A corollary was that Singaporean identity would not spontaneously emerge from the country's ongoing social, political, and cultural life. Rather, it would have to be consciously created and "built" by policies, directives, and educational campaigns. The content of the identity remained somewhat ill-defined, and it often appeared easier to say what Singaporean identity was not than what it was.
The ideal seemed to combine, somewhat uneasily, a self-consciously toughminded meritocratic individualism, in which individual Singaporeans cultivated their talents and successfully competed in the international economy, with an equally self-conscious identification with "Asian roots" and "traditional values," which referred to precolonial India, China, and the Malay world. Singaporeans were to be modern and cosmopolitan while retaining their distinctively Asian traditions.
So consequently Singaporeans must be "elite" in the society...hehehe I wonder how many local grandfathers were that "elitists" (laughter.hehehehehehe )
- sO THAT WOULD RULED OUT MY GRANDFATHER, GRANDMOTHER AND EVEN MY OLD MOTHER WHO WERE NOT BORN HERE EXCEPT my mother..they did give her Citizenship papers!( for my mother & grandmother except grandfather..(he died in 1963) grandfather was A China born and bred GOOK, though his cultural beliefs and practices were far more refined than any Singaporean even to date..except LKY..LKY was an English gentleman too when he lived there as "Harry". mY FATHER WAS LIKE A
transcient person or on holidays and traveled (to and fro) back to Old China until he was too old and settled here in Singapore..then he had his Singapore papers (I never know enough to find out?) All of them have Identity cards except grandfather.
Singapore's leaders explicitly rejected the ideology of the melting pot, offering rather the vision of a confidently multiethnic society whose component ethnic groups shared participation in such common institutions as electoral politics, public education, military service, public housing, and ceremonies of citizenship; at the same time they were to retain distinct languages, religions, and customs. Singaporeans were defined as composed of three fundamental types--Chinese, Malays, and Indians. These ethnic categories, locally referred to as "races," were assumed to represent self-evident, "natural" groups that would continue to exist into the indefinite future. Singaporean identity thus implied being a Chinese, a Malay, or an Indian, but selfconsciously so in relation to the other two groups. The Singaporean model of ethnicity thus required both the denial of significant internal variation for each ethnic category and the highlighting of contrasts between the categories.
Being Singaporean also meant being fluent in English, a language which served both as a neutral medium for all ethnic groups and as the medium of international business and of science and technology. The schools, the government, and the offices of international corporations for the most part used English as their working language. The typical Singaporean was bilingual, speaking English as well as the language of one of the three component ethnic groups. Hence the former English-speaking Baba, Chinese or Indian, would seem to serve as the model of Singaporean identity. The resulting culture would be the type social scientists call "creolized," in which a foreign language such as English or French is adapted to local circumstances and the dominant culture reflects a unique blending of local and "metropolitan" or international elements. In the 1980s, there were signs of the emergence of such a culture in Singapore, with the growth among youth (of all "races") of a distinctive English-based patois called "Singlish" and the attraction of all ethnic groups to international fashions and fads in leisure activities.
Singapore's leaders resisted such trends toward cosmopolitan or creole culture, however, reiterating that Singaporeans were Asians rather than Westerners and that abandoning their own traditions and values for the tinsel of international popular culture would result in being neither truly Western nor properly Asian. The consequence would be loss of identity, which in turn would lead to the dissolution of the society. The recommended policy for the retention of Asian identity involved an ideal division of labor by language. English was to function as a language of utility. The Asian "mother tongues"--Mandarin Chinese, Malay, and Tamil--would be the languages of values, providing Singaporeans with what political leaders and local academics commonly called "cultural ballast" or "moral compasses." Stabilized and oriented by traditional Asian values, the Singaporean would be able to select what was useful from the offerings of "Western" culture and to reject that which was harmful. This theory of culture and identity resulted in the effort to teach the "mother tongues" in the schools and to use them as the vehicle for moral education.
In an extension of the effort to create a suitable national identity, in 1989 Singapore's leaders called for a "national ideology" to prevent the harmful drift toward superficial Westernization. The national ideology, which remained to be worked out in detail, would help Singaporeans develop a national identity and bond them together by finding and encouraging core values common to all the country's diverse cultural traditions. Suggested core values included emphasizing community over self, valuing the family, resolving issues through the search for consensus rather than contention, and promoting racial and religious tolerance.
adopted from > Singapore Table of Contents Source: U.S. Library of Congress
[edit] What is the True Demographic Picture in Singapore among Singaporeans
- In Singapore, there is no racial distinctions or discriminations as the Rule of the land and its people are for promoting both harmony and equality. So we have a majority of Chinese, Indian <east Indians> as well as Malay and other races. However, over the years the ruling Garmen discovered a growing proportion of new born people come from certain <likely opposition groupings> races which do not encourage birth control and had much bigger families. What would happen when these people grow up and became like their parents <opposition supporters>? So there is cause for concern of those rulers in power!
- In order to offset this the Garmen encourages the immigration of people from elsewhere for the end purpose of getting more new immigrants who will likely be supporting the policies and government <ruling party> .
For instance, the whole area of new Woodlands in the north of Singapore had became another new Chinese city of some sort! So by gerrymandering the new GRCs to include those people would improve the chances of their staying power to come!
Although this is not exactly gerrymandering but just another way to try to change the demographic picture of the population so that they will stay in power for years to come. I call it tweaking of the population! [[User:Terry How|: Terri talk 01:12, October 8,2005 (UTC)]] 07:07, 15 February 2006 (SGT)as OF LATE IN THE EARLY 1990 AND EVEN 2000s the garmen had encouraged migrations from China and elsewhere (among Indian & Asians), and a lot of women married Singaporeans also lately sponsored their parents to stay here. There were many migrant workers as well as professional who stayed long enough to apply for S'pore papers to be PRs then later citizens of Singapore..by what criterion or right can we determine they are TRUE Singaporeans? There are many who can and used Singapore as a stepping stone to go West!
[edit] Medal for freedom by Singaporeans
What exactly is a Singaporean ? Well try to figure out from the oral testimony of a Singapore born 78 years gentleman (who, BTW was a MP under PAP and was once imprisoned by the garmen under ISA)
- goto see [[3]]
Singaporeans are all hand fed birds living in flats
see identity, core values, Marigold, engineered, reality, Singaporeans, etc..have fun then come here and re-write!
- some example of a copy of freedom medal someone is proud to wear:
This award was given to Rita a famous movie actress who acted in the role of Rita. She is alien whenever she come to see foreign cities like Singapore. I was honored to be a guest when I was in USA...: Alien talk 02:34, 9 February 2006 (SGT)
'I am a Singaporean at heart.regardless whether I lived in Canada or Australia because home is always where my heart will always be..Singapore : Alien talk 06:22, 9 April 2006 (SGT)
