PAP has been manipulating the history for SG for years

[Confuseous]

The fact is 50 years ago, in 1965, Singapore was already pretty developed with a financial centre, busy port, many modern buildings, hotels, good schools, bustling shops and restaurants and a strong civil service. Many of us who are old enough to remember the good old days can attest to this. Yes, we had kampongs and some swamps in parts of our lush tropical forests but to claim the entire country was a fishing village and swampland? Come on, does one call Malaysia a fishing village just because they still have many villages? Of course not!

Our island, by virtue of its excellent geographical location, was already an important and thriving trade hub centuries ago. By the early 1900s, Singapore was a prosperous city, one of the most modern in Southeast Asia, and it had one of the world’s busiest ports.

I urge Singaporeans, new citizens and PRs living here to make an effort to learn about our real history and to watch YouTube videos of Singapore taken in the 1900s. For more information, you can click on this link – a blog post I wrote on why Singapore was not a barren island 50 years ago.

Watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmzQKoC35wE

 

[laksaboy]

A lot of the so-called 'progress' under the PAP was merely advancement in technology. For example, the construction of high-rise buildings. That's not something that is unique to Singapore.