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04-04-2014, 06:00 PM
An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
Yet there is clearly a new xenophobic mood taking hold that is threatening to become a full-blown crisis of national identity: does Singapore see itself through the prism of an ugly self-righteous and self-defensive nationalism, or is its natural pride in national achievements to be expressed as a positive, cosmopolitan form of nationalism?
Such questions of national identity have historically been in the hands of the government, and Singaporeans are fortunate that its government is clearly dedicated to taking Singapore down the path of benign cosmopolitanism.
Unfortunately that is where the good news ends, because most of the policy options that would deal with this problem appear to be out of bounds to policy makers.
The heart of the immediate problem is http://www.asiasentinel.com/society/...ration-policy/ (http://www.asiasentinel.com/society/singapore-impotent-immigration-policy/)
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://sammyboy.com/showthread.php?178722-Michael-Barr-on-Singapore’s-Impotent-Immigration-Policy&goto=newpost).
Yet there is clearly a new xenophobic mood taking hold that is threatening to become a full-blown crisis of national identity: does Singapore see itself through the prism of an ugly self-righteous and self-defensive nationalism, or is its natural pride in national achievements to be expressed as a positive, cosmopolitan form of nationalism?
Such questions of national identity have historically been in the hands of the government, and Singaporeans are fortunate that its government is clearly dedicated to taking Singapore down the path of benign cosmopolitanism.
Unfortunately that is where the good news ends, because most of the policy options that would deal with this problem appear to be out of bounds to policy makers.
The heart of the immediate problem is http://www.asiasentinel.com/society/...ration-policy/ (http://www.asiasentinel.com/society/singapore-impotent-immigration-policy/)
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://sammyboy.com/showthread.php?178722-Michael-Barr-on-Singapore’s-Impotent-Immigration-Policy&goto=newpost).