Singapore NU

Question 1

Singapore Ideology

Answer 1

Commitment to pragmatism; Priority on economic growth to encourage new citizens to forget their ethnic roots and instead focus on development of the state, disregarded immigrant status
Multiculturalism: Policy of religious and ethnic pluralism and tolerance, safeguards and guarantees space for diff groups for expression

Question 2

Singapore Language Policy

Answer 2

Bilingualism; English promoted as first language due to practicality and would also learn their mother tongues to retain cultural heritage. Provided common mode of communication amongst ethnic groups and increased understanding.
However it was disappointing to overwhelmingly majority as diminished Chinese to only a mother tongue

Question 3

Singapore Educational Policy

Answer 3

Practise of multiculturalism in education; 1992 Civic and Moral Education created to promote national values and religious practises included in textbooks to promote inter religious understanding

Question 4

Mini Transmigration

Answer 4

CMIO quotas for HDB flats to break up racial enclaves and increased contact between different racial groups.