Comments on: Singapore: Multiculturalism or the melting pot?

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By: Anthony

Anthony — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 00:14:13 +0000

During the men’s double badminton match of the commonwealth Game i can hear one of the English player using the four letter words “F..K”. If fact many English speaking caucasians likes to use the four letters words. I have hear many American school students including the “F..K” words in the conversation. Maybe to them it is a norm like Singaporeans who likes to end our sentences with lah and meh.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 06 May 2010 03:32:00 +0000

Don’t go down the road of Multiculturalism like Australia. Singapore, you had it so perfect. Your melting pot was tension free.

Australia now has racial ghettos that promote people not to assimilate into Australian culture. Cities have no go areas that are too dangerous to go at night.

Stick with your existing ways!!

By: YoYo

YoYo — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:02:20 +0000

I am new in the country and I am from Spain. I don’t have any problem adapting to this culture, in fact I like it and I would like my country to have part of this mentality because you may work a lot and sale your soul to have such GDP, but in mine we have been chilling out and now there is no job even If we are prepared. I guess there are only two options.

If you want a better place and a place with opportunities you have to close your eyes and don’t look at injustices. Spanish people can complain and has freedom of speech but, who cares? at the end of the day politics will continue filling their pockets. We have public health that will tell you to come in 5 months. On the other hand, the labour protection can also affect productivity, efficiency and more jobs opportunities. With all these I am not saying what is right/wrong because there is no right/wrong.

By: Passerby

Passerby — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:36:45 +0000

There is no need for Singaporeans to keep a Singaporean accent if they know how to adopt a Brit/American accent and sound natural with it. Brit/American accents are made up of word stresses and intonation, something which Singaporeans have distorted over the years with their own perceptions of how English should sound like.

Nouns have been stressed as verbs in the Singaporean accent, for instance “PROject” as “proJECT”. Applying the correct stresses, plus regular practice and exposure to the preferred accent (American or Brit) can make one sound more “English”.

By: Singapore Democrats

Singapore Democrats — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 05:07:10 +0000

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By: huhaaHAA

huhaaHAA — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:56:14 +0000

Typically Singaporean, totally predctable – blaming others for your own misfortune. Which other country is this paranoid about things i wonder. Yeah. i guess you can call me anti-Singaporean. I honestly do not possess a good opinion of these conceited, self-righteous martyls calling themselves Singaporeans.

No restrain, no inhibitions. Honestly, what kind of culture do you possess back there that makes for all this rudeness?

By: Stillhaventfound

Stillhaventfound — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 18:10:48 +0000

Hi Gerald,

I would argue that Australia is more of a melting pot than not. Canada is the classic multicultural nation. In Canada, exactly what is Canada’s national culture is a huge debate. There is not a strong national culture as there is in Australia.

I’m not surprised that many Australians may feel “threatened” by so many Asians going there. It’s the same case as in Singapore, where Singaporeans don’t like it when foreigners come in and don’t assimilate well.

I think if you’re part of the dominant national culture, you’ll not be happy when others come in and don’t assimilate. That’s natural. Singapore is already a very small country. We do have a national culture. That’s what makes us Singaporeans. If Singapore loses its identity, then we have nothing to be proud of.

I do think that Singapore should aim to be a melting pot and keep having a distinctive culture. But the government is clearly, for pragmatic and economic purposes (what’s new!), promoting policies that will eventually erode any concept of Singaporean-ness. Maybe, to them, this is needed for our economic survival. Who knows. They may be right.

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