Thursday, August 2, 2007

Some of the underlying challenges of Singapore

In the recent years, as Singapore develops into an international stage for businesses to flourish and a role model in ensuring that peace is possible although there are so many different races living together in harmony. However, as the number of foreigners coming into Singapore increases significantly, it gets much more challenging to maintain this beautiful and safe country the way it is for more than 40 years. maintaining a multi-racial nation with 4 different races was already a huge challenge, what more with this increase in the variety of races raoming in to Singapore?

Some of them are due to the increasing tensions created by the terrorists in the international community wehich have made all of us jitty and always on the look out, thinking that the person thats beside you may blow himself up or do something 'crazy'. Everyboby now tends to be more suspicious about the people around them and are not trusting others as easy as before. This therefore tends to cause turmoil in the country when a spark is ignited.

Furthermore, although the skin colour of some foreigners are similar to the locals, its only a sperficial connection and does not really contribute much to ensuring that this pool of people wll definitely blend in with the locals with regards to their cultures, backgrounds and living lifestyles. This may in turn cause unnecessary quarrels and unwanted conflicts which may even lead to dire consequences, disrupting the peace and harmony in Singapore.