Tag Archives: Society

Most Singaporeans are kind and gracious; we should not let these selfish people bring us down.

In his advice, he urged the future top guy take an interest in society around him, and to take interest in any world events happening currently. He also strongly encouraged a future PM to read the newspapers to see how Singapore can fit in, something that most people do, but obviously PM Lee still see a need to tell everyone. The best part was that he encouraged this future PM to participate in Singapore's wider society, to understand what the man on the ground is going through.

SDP's Chee Soon Juan weighed in on censorship and democracy in Singapore after having watched a play. He claimed there's no freedom of speech here and hoped these youths can at least bring about change in future.

Our reader saw an old man standing at the junction of the road this morning with his cardboard collecting trolley and lamented the high standards of living in Singapore. Nope, the old man wasn't exercising.

Singaporean Lee Yue Heng wrote an open letter to Amos Yee to question the purpose of his criticisms. He is against criticism stemming from hate and urged Amos to go about constructive criticism that is intended to make Singapore a better society.

Workers' Party's He Ting Ru is worried that people are so upset about the elected Presidency but wonders if it tells a lot about our society given that so few good men/women were willing to put themselves forward. What do you think?

Khan Osman Sulaiman continues to harp on how the reserved presidency is a bad decision and likened it to 'The Voice' singing competition which only accepted Chinese singers. He thinks race-based policies will only create a divisive society instead of strengthening it.

A netizen thinks Singapore is no longer on the frontier because we are always waiting for the Government to "say the word", study and approve proposals. By the time this happens, our future will become yesterday. Do you agree?

A netizen who was equally perplexed by the PM's talking points during the NDR highlighted actual issues which should have been raised at the event. He thinks politicians should not focus on the "rosy outlook" here because Singapore will no longer be a special location in the global economy if they adopt this narrow mindset.

Recently, there have been talks about the narrow-mindedness of Singaporeans when viewing other countries. Specifically in this thread, and it made me think, why does this happen? Note, I use some Singaporeans here more liberally and should not be taken so broadly or meant to insult you. hit the back button if you think otherwise.