Well, if everybody come here and their next generation would
move out (or maybe 3 generations later move out), then it would be
difficult for the society to develop something that could last long
enough to become a local culture at a constant rate (or if we
follow what the article says, increasing rate), do you really
really think there would even be a local culture developing?
It would be a 'restart' every few generations.
In a globalized environment, it is indeed very difficult for any
particular way of life to develop into a unique culture, more so in
the future than it was in the past. If somebody started doing
something that is worthwhile emulating, then it is emulated
everyway, not just Singapore. If it is difficult for Singapore to
develop its own culture because of moving population, then this
moving population is also affecting the culture of others.
As it is, new cultures evolved for people of all countries, the
Generation Y, the yuppies and so on...and this is borderless. but,
there would still be something that would be peculiar to a
particular place, due to its weather, the profile of its
population...
it really didn't take very long for Singlish to evolve into
something uniquely Singaporean.
Some cuisines popular among Singaporean are being identified as
Singaporean, even though you still find Laksa in Penang but they
have to call it Penang Laksa.
Even food court is something many foreigners would associate
with Singapore even though we find such places in many other Asian
countries.
May be Singapore would become a city so international that you
see images of every other nations here, in that case, even the
local born would have to be international to survive. It is not
only the foreign born kids who prefer McDonalds, and the local kids
want only chwee Queh.
