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The New York Times
Days of Reflection for Man Who Defined Singapore
By SETH MYDANS
September 10, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/11/world/asia/11lee.html?_r=2
Younger people worry him, with their demands for more political openness and a free exchange of ideas, secure in their well-being in modern Singapore. “They have come to believe that this is a natural state of affairs, and they can take liberties with it,” he said. “They think you can put it on auto-pilot. I know that is never so.”
The kind of open political combat they demand would inevitably open the door to race-based politics, he said, and “our society will be ripped apart.”
Days of Reflection for Man Who Defined Singapore
By SETH MYDANS
September 10, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/11/world/asia/11lee.html?_r=2
Younger people worry him, with their demands for more political openness and a free exchange of ideas, secure in their well-being in modern Singapore. “They have come to believe that this is a natural state of affairs, and they can take liberties with it,” he said. “They think you can put it on auto-pilot. I know that is never so.”
The kind of open political combat they demand would inevitably open the door to race-based politics, he said, and “our society will be ripped apart.”
