chinese have been practise ancestor worship for a long time, i
am sure whether what you said is true, it sounds like conspiracy
theory, but i think PAP have successfully isolate singapore from
china, from china's influence,
Long time ago chinese seek shelter in Nanyang, which is
singapura in chinese, because the political turbulence, but no
one consider nanyang as their home, sooner or later they want
to get back to china, and Nanyang at that time is equivalent to a
horrible place, rumoured among chinese,
many prostitute have been traffic to nanyang , and they
fear so much of going to nanyang, singaporean chinese at that time
is similar to a diaspora jewish during world war, and jews in world
promtly go back to Israel when the country of israel is formally
established.
and i am not familar with the history, during which singapore's
economy grow tremendously. and PAP successfully establish a so
called singapore spirit, which is similar to hongkong spirit, means
working hard, and striving for success,
and the new generation is born in singapore, who enjoy first
class infrastructure, and stable political enviorment, and after
the successfully education and building of singpapore identity, the
new generation consider them to be singaporean for the first time,
and singaporean chinese become a name of different being with china
chinese.
but although offending, but i would say, the first generation of
chinese come to singapore are mostly not educated people. THey may
not be familiar with the classical chiense culture, which is the
reason they don't develope firm bond with china,
and now after the english is being accepted as official
language, no one willing to read difficult chinese classics, and
the only tie between singaporean chinese and china is blocked,
that's the reason why singaporean chinese despise china chinese,
although speaking same language, and looks the same.
Singapore have made a miracle, after British formly withdraw
from singpapore, they predict singapore will not survive without
the aid from british side.But singapore successfully, building it's
economy for post colony period, and successfully
establish,"singapore" brand ,in world market in terms of
entre port economy,
now singapore have been on the right track of development, but
seems the development of economy never satisfy the appetite of
singaporean, and the more and more stressful life, triggered by
globalisation, and shortage in local market itself, to build up a
self sufficient economy.
after economic booming, steady peiord of development,
singaporean feel that they are as good as US ,Uk, and proud of it's
singapore identity. After the long time to struggle for survival,
singaporean become more and more crave to become first class in
every aspect, the PAP government already lagging behind to fulfill
the need of singaporean's appetite for more transparent and
democratic government. And the autocratic government model already
become outdated to maintain a efficient and acceptable governance,
just like a script in movie, they are looking for something more
extraordinary.
being exposed to more more about western life, especially the
life in europe, where the human right, is greatly respected, where
they have longer maternity leave, and less time in working,
singaporean are not satisfied to be lecture by PAP, what is the
next step, after the booming time, people realise that there are
something more extraordinary, which is democracy, and realise that
for so long time, they have been brainwashed, and behave like a
working maching.
The shift from making survival concern to have more quality
government and life in education, medical, insurance, and social
welfare, mark a great breakthrough from post colony to new
singapore identity.
And this is the driving force, of calling for a political
reform, we not only need money, and respect at the same time, it's
the end of singapore's modernisation and westernisation, and the
beginning , singapore creation.
i hail for what singapore have achieved, but after all this , we
need to think what is the next step, going western way, or going
your own way. SIngapore need democracy, or authoritarian with
singapore characristics.
this question is what singapore will face during, next10 to 20
years.
And the dead of old singapore and the born of new singapore will
prove whether, singaporean is capable of facing the new era of
economy, which is the ending of one polarisation to
multi polarisation, and the decline of old world order, the
rise of new world order, which, the asia and asia market will
become a big role in world economy.
this the question, singapore need to provide answer for , and we
will witness, whether singapore will uplift itself from first class
hardware, to first class "software", from hard power to soft power.
it's time to take break, and think what is the next step for
singapore.