Posts Tagged ‘race’
Lee Kuan Yew makes a rare appearance in Parliament to “demolish” the heretical views of newly minted Nominated MP Viswa Sadasivan. CNA, with video: Speaking in Parliament – which he seldom does – Mr Lee explained that he did not intend to intervene in the parliamentary debate initially. But having read what a Nominated Member […]
Filed under: Speech, Television, Transcript, Video | Closed
Tags: constitution, equality, lee kuan yew, nmp, race, viswa sadasivan
Review of Constructing Singapore: Elitism, Ethnicity and the Nation-Building project
SDP chief Chee Soon Juan reviews Constructing Singapore: Elitism, Ethnicity and the Nation (Amazon). Wall Street Journal: The “Singapore Story” — the title of the first volume of founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew’s autobiography — is that a mandarinate elite built a bastion of political and economic success on twin pillars of good governance: […]
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Tags: chee soon juan, constructing singapore, discrimination, elitism, ethnicity, eugenics, fertility, michael barr, nation, race, sdp, zlatko skrbis