The Singapore Solution

[Char_Azn]

There are positives and negatives in this article. If you don't like to read any positives, skip to page 3 and start at the last paragraph. The one that says

Over time, the MM says, Singaporeans have become "less hard-driving and hard-striving." This is why it is a good thing, the MM says, that the nation has welcomed so many Chinese immigrants (25 percent of the population is now foreign-born). He is aware that many Singaporeans are unhappy with the influx of immigrants, especially those educated newcomers prepared to fight for higher paying jobs. But taking a typically Darwinian stance, the MM describes the country's new subjects as "hungry," with parents who "pushed the children very hard." If native Singaporeans are falling behind because "the spurs are not stuck into the hide," that is their problem.

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/01/singapore/jacobson-text

 

[Alamaking]

Old fart getting more and more senile :p:p

 

[Char_Azn]

U might be surprise to find out that he actually knows we're becoming extinct

"We are shrinking in our population," the MM says. "Our fertility rate is 1.29. It is a worrying factor." This could be the fatal error in the Singapore Model: The eventual extinction of Singaporeans.

 

[1sickpuppy II]

Hence the beginning for the search of replacement. The took the ah tongs from China the replace the chinese, the tumbies from India to replace the indians and the pinoys from Philippines to replace the jupjings. The only race that they are not worry about replacing are the mats they seem to meet the status quote everytime