Hardware, Heartware and Headwear
The Facebook group “Love My Country Love My Hijab” is a discussion we’ve avoided for too long. It’s time we brought it out into the open and be bold but careful in declaring what our principles are as a nation. It seems to me that we parade terms like “multiculturalism” and “racial harmony” while actually […]
About Hossan Leong Show’s “censorship”
I was horrified at first when I heard that the MDA had issues with the script that was written for the Hossan Leong Show (Sep 23 – Oct 9), then indignant when I found out further that someone had taken offense and complained about the words, “Halal Vegetarian Babi Pongteh”, which was a dish to […]
Put Tamil back on public signboards
Where there are other languages apart from English on them, to be precise. Does anyone know if they’ve put back Tamil on the directional signage at Changi Airport? Or are they still in three of our national languages plus Japanese, as they have been so since 2007? And how true is it that the Civil […]
Extending race
More on the country’s obsession with “race”, Yu-Mei Balasingamchow writes: as far as this racial labelling in Singapore officialdom is concerned, we should all just tick the ‘Others’ box — and carry on From her post, I went on to read Alex Au’s (Yawning Bread) study on the matter, and as I suspected: What was […]
Saving race
Because it has always been our government’s policy to pay attention to matters of race and ethnicity, our identity cards and government records require that we be classified under different “races”. Both my parents are Chinese, so there doesn’t seem to be anything complicated about that, even if you’re not comfortable with the notion of […]