The country of your home is just like any serious committed
relationship. Monogamous in nature. Just like a wife, you cannot
have 2 or more and claim you love all others equally, not just
lustily.
Dual citizenship entails much more committment, and
not just financial aspect alone, after all, money can
always be earned if one is capable.
To hold dual citizenship would means one would have to
contribute to 2 societies. Not an issue for the one who is serious
and committed to serve both faithfully.
Problem arise only when one refuses to work and contribute,
preferring rather to be depended on others' hardwork, feeding on
social spending for oneself and one's family despicably.
The serious problem with dual citizenship will come from
national security issues. No 2 persons will think alike, fault
lines within societies will always be present. Should such
faultlines erupt into major outbreaks, that dual citizenship will
represent a conflict of personal interests and obligations to
society.
Futhermore, it imposes hard decisions to be made by society and
its administrators - can these dual citizenship holders be trusted?
Even during WWII, the american Niseis were kept behind barb wires.
full fledge americans yet treated differently just because their
countries were at war.
How much more the impact in these days and age of multi
cross-borders trans national terrorism, whereby animals and
beasts hide among us within society and seeking for sympathy.
The road to hell is often paved with good intentions. Dual
citizenship as an idealism is fine, but still a slippery slope
to be throd upon by us flawed humans.
Think further, for we have yet to evolve to ideal beings, and as
such, there are many more consequences that will reverberate and
tear our social fabric apart.
Monogamy had been tried and tested for centuries. It had worked
well for us imperfect human. As said, if it aint broke, there is no
need to fix it. Improve it - yes, but at a pace of change all can
be comfortable with so that none be left behind on our
egalitarian Earth, or as egalitarian as our planet seeks to be.
This sort of thinking is backward. I think people think like
this because nationalism is only recently emerging in Asia,
therefore governments like Singapore are still hungup over dual
citizenship and the possibility of evil "traitors" emerging at any
moment.
Disallowing dual citizenship is not stopping emigration or
immigration.
IN today's worlds, cities are all trying to be the best and they
are therefore being more alike. "Malaysia truly Asia," "garden
city," and i have seen the word "cosmopolitan" used far too many
times to describe all cities. All cities try to make themselves
unique and attractive and end up becoming the same.
That said, cities are for everyone to come in and leave to
fulfill a need for work and a desire to live. The world is
changing, and the more talent pool you have, the better your
city can take advantage of technological improvements and
innovations; limiting your growth with citizenship restrictions is
merely limiting your own development.
But Singapore has other traditonal core priorities and guards
its security stringently in its "unique" region. It has its own way
of dealing with things.
But i feel people do not take kindly to being restricted in
their options.