Tag: race

  • Hardware, Heartware and Headwear

    The Facebook group “Love My Country Love My Hijab” is a discussion we’ve avoided for too long. It’s time we brought it out into the open and be bold but careful in declaring what our principles are as a nation. It seems to me that we parade terms like “multiculturalism” and “racial harmony” while actually…

  • What Say You? Episode 5: Chindians & Choodles

    Do you tell people “I’m Chinese” or “I’m Malay” or “I’m Indian”? Or do you naturally and proudly say, “I’m Singaporean”? Whose fault is it if you don’t?

  • There’s that R-word again

    No, the other R-word. I don’t really care about Pastor Rony Tan and his idiocy – he’s of the same cloth, as far as I’m concerned, as the evangelical pastor in the U.S. who once made his point against migrants from non-English speaking backgrounds by famously declaring that “if English was good enough for Jesus,…

  • Extending race

    More on the country’s obsession with “race”, Yu-Mei Balasingamchow writes: as far as this racial labelling in Singapore officialdom is concerned, we should all just tick the ‘Others’ box — and carry on From her post, I went on to read Alex Au’s (Yawning Bread) study on the matter, and as I suspected: What was…

  • The Singapore formula for ethnic harmony

    Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! It is diabolically simple – just don’t talk about it. When you don’t raise race issues, they won’t surface, and everyone is none the wiser, and Confucius did say something to the effect of doing away with knowledge and grief consequentially not being known. It makes me really upset to hear…