Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Chan Fai
Is there Racial Harmony in Singapore?

Racial Harmony plays a important part, especially in Singapore, a multi ethnic country. Without racial harmony, there will be no tolerance and understanding between the different races and religions. If further worsen, history will repeat, riots and fights will brought up. This will take alot of time for the damage to be repair. Be it emotionally or physically.
Singapore had practice racial harmony very well. It held often held campaigns and events to promotes racial harmony and stress the importance of it. Children were also brought up learning the importance of racial harmony.
Between understanding and tolerance, understanding other religion and race play a more important part in maintaining racial harmony. Only with understanding, then it will have tolerance.
By understanding other races, we will learn about their culture. Then we will know what to prevent saying in front of them. This will maintain the peace in a multi ethnic society like Singapore.
However if people only tolerate and not understand other races, this will only cause the problem between races to increase, like a snowball. Until one day when an individual cannot take it, there will once again be riot. This is because understanding between races is not applied.
Racial harmony is indeed important for a country like Singapore. Without it, there will be riots and misunderstanding among the different races.

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