tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7446921294374873184.post2471222965019807105..comments2009-10-29T12:19:28.904Zedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00882462778776308218noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7446921294374873184.post-8214295898491767682009-10-29T12:19:28.904Z2009-10-29T12:19:28.904ZI would say that people in singapore do indeed decide things for themselves - except that this comes after its Confucian/Legalist government had trained them to leave the most significant decisions in governmental hands of course.<br /><br />Well, this process was made simpler as all that had to be done was to re-associate its &#39;chinese&#39; population with the culture of china and you get a population that confuses the &#39;kow tow&#39; for &#39;being upstanding&#39; - thus &#39;asian democracy&#39;. It was a simple case of ripping out the potentially multicultural &#39;singaporean&#39; from those of chinese biological ancestry and putting the &#39;china&#39; in its place.<br /><br />Hence, today, decisions generally dwell between which shopping centre or eatery to go to, or which investment would bode well for the growth of one&#39;s &#39;nest egg&#39; so that the government may be relieved of giving back what they took - a generally chinese, and not &#39;singaporean&#39;, approach to life.<br /><br />As the saying goes, every people get the government they deserve, and in the case of singapore, its herd, through force and cultural pride, has been well-trained to not desire anything more than that which they thus deserve.ednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7446921294374873184.post-41220406712796076382009-10-29T04:54:49.267Z2009-10-29T04:54:49.267ZThis A true eye - opener. The good thing about the British System is, they discuss everything in the open. To let the people decide for themselves.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com