Does race matter in Singapore?
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- čas přidán 18. 07. 2018
- Are we really "Singaporean" when our I.C. defines us by race?
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No. Race on I.C is an old British Mandate Law used to segregate and separate Singaporeans
Divide and conquer
It was probably essential then as different races may not be able to communicate with one another. And racial tensions would arise if they were placed together then
There was no need for interference from North Western Europeans the divide between East Asians, South East Asians, And South Asians happened way before they slumped in the central org yeah.
Having race in I/C shows our heritage. In SG we identify by our race but once abroad we identify being Singaporeans first.
That true. When we are overseas we identified ourselves as Singaporean. Indication of race is plus one easier for our heritage purpose and easier to do population census.
As indication Malay on ic is very important as mostly Malay is associate of being Muslim incase of emergency or death safe the hustle of checking. Etc.
I have never really liked it, as it is not really a box I found myself and my background fitting into. I am multi racial. To have just my paternal lineage recognised is not right, to me. I introduce myself as Eurasian, as ultimately that is what I am. If I was fully Chinese or Indian or Malay, it is there. Simple. I have lived without race being an identifying marker, for more than 20 years now, living overseas. I am not ethnically put into a box that I don’t fit in. I l love Portuguese food, but go crazy for duck rice, wonton noodles and dry mee pok. I don’t look like my ID card says I should. People often mistake me for being something else.
Alamak! we are all human.
Die becomes common corpse.Peace with all people.✌
You only interviewed young people. Need to include seniors for a better perspective
...they wud defo want to identify with their race..
My race on my Singaporean passport is African Arabic / Middle Eastern and my religion is Islam. It’s the first time I had to fill in my race and religion on a passport but I think it’s a good thing so people can not confuse me. Because I have different passports and my nationality is not the same and I don’t like to be confused. So I think it’s a good thing that I can post my religion and race too.
The race on the IC is most probably for administrative reasons by the government. Like for use with the hdb quota which states the proportions of each race allowed in the hdb block
Seems when it applies to certain jobs, occupations, schools, colleges, occupational centers, universities, dormitories, and academies it does to some aspects
In my opinion, there is no need to classify us according to our races. Races are defined based on one's physical appearance and but in Singapore, it is based on the nationalities of our ancestors (with the exception of Malay). We cannot assume that all people with the same nationality have the same type of looks. That's racism. In addition, you also have people of different nationalities and look similar, such as Japanese and Koreans. It seems pretty obvious to many Singaporeans that "Chinese" and "Indian" refer to ethnicity and not nationality, hence they are always referred to as such. However if we look at those classified under 'Others', you have Pakistani, Japanese, American, Australian, British, etc. If all of them were to be continuously identified in that manner, how can this be helpful in social integration?
On averages though there are clear physical and facial alternatives between East Asians, South East Asians, and even more so with South Asians yeah.
The race does not matter but knowing someone's race cann be useful info, to be used for positive purposes.
Which are?
@@JP-sm4cs At work, knowing a colleague who is indian for instance, at my workplace, we try to have a balance of different races, because of the need to work on PH. We dont want too many chinese wanting PH on CNY, or having an indian colleague, priority for approving leave goes to the Indian for Leave approval for not scheduled to work on a Deepavali.
@@leongsam1075 It seems like the concept of race is more linked to culture than to anything else in Singapore. Which is a nice change of pace.
Also for negative purposes. I think the negative outweighs the positive overall. Especially in The West.
@@presidentoneday6634 👍
The Government has different funding schemes like CDAC and Mendaki. Generally Mendaki gives better fundings to Malays. As long as such things exists, races still need to be distinguished. A minister in Jun 2021 also just said that statistics need to be captured by race so that the Government could see how best they could help the people of specific groups. Also the Government also said that we don't have a Malay President for a long time and installed one, though technically is an Indian.
It's the same like Malaysia. Mahathir is a Kerala Indian. The Government and his supporters consider him as Malay.
It is high time the race identity field on the NRIC is removed. With more than 20% of relationships here being "inter-racial"/inter-ethnic, it is fast becoming irrelevant.
Love from Northeast India,Mizoram
Still don't understand why sg job interview forms asking for race ? That should be removed. Does race matters in a work place?
Of course, if hire too many malays the culture will be slack
Kenneth lol. I think all races sure have the hardworking and lazy people. In my old workplace many chinese and indian are more slackers than malay. Bosses are both indian and chinese also. More than 70% of the indian workers are quite fragile. Today do tomorrow pain. Half of the chinese love pushing their work to others and angkat bola alot. But still there also nice and hardworking chinese and indian also. So don't steteotype so much bro.
The answer is not as much, but kinda because deep down we still have our own biases but try to practice reason
Yes its important but more as an identity.
It matter, otherwise how HDB will decide how to distribute based in quota.????
Are we trying to step up our level of sensitivities every day? No race , no gender then no name? You can also guess the race by name right? I think not having or having the race on the IC is not the problem, problem is why does it bother people? If equality is not in our minds,can it be taught by hiding the obvious?
There is only one race... The human race
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@@kennedymprah283 Amen
@@N6976 Amen
Very interesting
Does race matter? It depends. If they wanna segregate and exclude people by race, it's not helpful at all. And after all they all live in Singapore and they are Singaporean citizens. That's the most prior fact. But at the same time Singapore has gotten its frame by pioneers. It's a well known fact that 75% of Singaporeans have Chinese root. And probably 9 to 10% are from South India. Even Malays, some has Javanese, Buginese, Arab and jawi peranakan roots. Singapore is a one nation but it's more meaningful bcuz the diversity is respected. I am not Singaporean i'm actually a Korean. But I have two close Singaporean friends. I even had a chance to meet one guy's family. And they were all chinese singaporeans. I was not used to multicultural society bcuz my country is monocultural. I even thought every Singaporeans have chinese root. I found it was wrong but i have met their family. One of the most chinese family i have ever met. Even they talked in hokien language which i've never heard in my country before. They welcomed me as a guest from far country. We had a chance to talk about history of chinese settlers and lee kwan yew's rule. Especially his grandparents still mattered of their chinese culture and pride. They told me it's part of their spirit. They said feeling proud of and preserving their identity and hating other culture are different. They can respect other culture by acknowledging its diversity. I was so impressed. And I could finally understand what singapore is :)
if someone is born in sg, but from another country (say USA for example) where does that put them? I have friends like that who when asked where they r from they say SG, but when asked for nationality say american
He is sn American born in Sg.Thats all. Basically got citizenship in US.
@Claire C
I can understand that Bec that's me. Where I am from is Singapore but my nationality is American. Wish we can have dual citizenship but alas Singapore does not allow that compare to so many of my friends who has dual citizenship. Sad ! 🙏
If u r from USA but yr mum gives birth to u in Singapore, no problem. When Covid is over, go back to yr country. Dun overstay yr welcome.
@@chinchang5117
Chin, I hope non of your kids married someone from different countries or even generations down. I have generations from Singapore and as much as from States.
So, perhaps you need to go back to China. I am extremely disappointed with your reply.
I wonder how many generations of your family is born in Singapore ? One maybe two ?
😂😂
Short answer yes
It is not important to indicate your race in the nric . Today as ID is personal due to PDPA , the only time you would need to present it is when you are at the police station ( rarely) and when you collect your covid Token at the Community Centre. 😆. lol.
Perhaps the relative proportions of the various races in Singapore is worth the mention. 76% Chinese, 15% malay and 7.5% Indian. Let's keep to this magic formula for Singapore' s success. Each race has its laudable culture and unique strengths. For instance, the Malays are soft spoken and gentle and they find their place largely in the civil service such as the fire department, police force, civil defence force, frontline services and teaching. They are creative and natural singers. They go out of their way to help the less fortunate and gotong royong among their community.
The Indians have the gift of the gap as they can be fluent in languages. They often sound convincing whenever they communicate with others. That's why many are in the legal profession. I love their curry and prata. In Singapore, due to CECA, we find naturalised Indian talents in the banking and IT sectors. They contribute to our economy.
The Chinese here are known for their thrift and industry. They are less than boisterous like the Indians and Eurasians. Sometimes the Chinese can be misunderstood for being competitive and for submitting to the fear of missing out on good things. The impression created may be that the Chinese are money faced. In Hainanese, this supposed love for money is described as behaving such : " yio jib, mak Kim kim" The children are hot housed for the school exams on the first day of school. They assimilated well to the recent covid circuit breaker as home study is second nature to Chinese kids. They are already programmed to stay at home to study even from pre covid years. So it made little difference to them staying home or not.
The Eurasians are music talented, eloquent and entertaining. They dominate our entertainment and mass media industry like working as DJ, dancers and news readers. They are fluent in speech and suave in behaviour. I observed most are witty and more risk taking than the average Joe in the street. In flora biology, it's called hybrid vigour. They make friends easily and thrive with all races.
So , let's celebrate Singapore s unique potpourri of cultures and culinary offerings. They make us broad minded and patient with others from different back grounds.
Luv Sg
the javanese-malay girl is cute.
Why do Malaysia and Singapore still have Tamil and Mandarin as official languages ? They have been there for 3 generations since independence so surely they should have become homogeneous and have Malay (Malaysia) or English (Singapore) as the only language?
Exactly
Exactly
Just like in China, Japan, Korea
It is to show that while we are united, we are allowed to be different. It is also to prove that while we are different, we can be united.
We all bleed the same❤️
In my opinion, I feel that it's about identification. Say if a country only has one race, then there's no problem with just stating a person's nationality. In the context of Singapore, we are made up of multiple races beyond the main four. For example, if John Doe committed a crime, there could be thousands of John Doe who are Singaporeans. So what differentiates the real John Doe from the other John Does? The race could be one of the factors.
Hi Mark, thanks for sharing! What about cases where we are unable to tell what race John Doe is from? What if John Doe is mixed race?
Hmmm... That's why I mentioned that race could be one of the factors to help nab criminals. I'm not very sure about the other races listed on NRICs besides the main four. I've heard of Javanese. Hence, what's to be listed on the NRIC for John Doe of a mixed race will depend on what his parents choose.
I'm not against removing race identification. If one day, the government decides to scrap it, I'm fine with it because, to be honest, how many times do we look at our NRIC in our lifetime? Haha!
I'm just sharing that it could help in terms of providing leads and identifying criminals. :)
I think CHINESE GIRLS are made for Indian men.And Chinese girls are more open in comparison to Chinese men,so you'll hardly sees Chinese men and Indian women or maybe Indian men are more attractive
@@stephenkhawzawl5594 Really??? Ohhhhhhh
0:38. The guy not sure his own race. Wtf..
On paper or smalltalk all is a No. In reality all is a Yes.
We are one... We are Singaporean. Race doesn't matter so for those nationalism, fascism, chauvinism and racism influencer bear that in mind we won't be able tolerate that.
If english does not exist, we would have to speak in our own languages and we couldn't understand each other. Some countries.. I think... Does not understand english. Like china, im a chinese singaporean. I have to speak chinese for them to understand. But with english. It does not matter in singapore..
I’m Human Race!
These r kids so long they can play n hv things going on their stride doesn't matter .wait till things get on their ways than they start seeing things it does matter nothing has happened yet so it does not matter I pray churches stand in the gap so
Let’s not confuse our race and racism please.
I wonder what will human being looks in next thousand years
There would no human left seeing current global climate changes
Why the heck would you want to know the race.
I got confused with Singaporeans too. I thought most of the residents are immigrants. When I checked history they are mostly from Malay race like us Filipinos
The native Singaporean is Malay...
Its time to put as human, robot or alien, i just come from Jupiter.
I think I'm human 🤣🤣🤣
Singlish. Oh my gosh!!!!!
what is javanese malay? mix between javanese and malay or javanese imigrant living in malayan peninsula?
@Andre CS no i'm not.
Javanese, Boyanese, Bugis, Minang are dialects that comes under Malay race in SG. Just like Hokkien, Teochew, Cantonese, etc. are dialects under Chinese.
The Javanese are not the only sub-Malay tribe under the Malay race living in Singapore. There are also Pulau Ujong Malays, Orang Laut Malays, Orang Selat Malays, who are the original ppls of Singapore. You also have Semenanjung Malays ipwhich inckude Johor Malay, Pahang Malay, Terengganu Malay, Kelantan Malay, Petani Malay, Setul Malay and so on
Still malay lah, noob 😄
This why people will think if they get educate well, and manners
I guess having a race in your IC defines you as a Singaporean. Our identity is perceived by nationality(Singaporean) and ethnicity(CMIO) due to the mix of multi-culturalism in our society. Singapore wants to retain our asian values and culture. As Singapore advances to a global city, the CMIO model will be removed. In the short term, there will be no changes because we still wanna be friends with China.
Fact: everyday i received scam calls, mostly from indians.
Their bosses are still China Chinese
What’s up with the Malay guy who said race matters? Because people thinks he’s Filipino. He looks down on pinoys 🤣 come on bro it’s 21st century.
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yes
yes
@@lynuslim6851 LYNUS :DDD
@@adrielle3168 hi adrielle!!
Javanese malay is very hot
Asias racist hub saying they are not racist🤭🤭🤭
Singaporean is not a race. It is a nationality.
3:00 that indian guy look super cute lol...
He is malay
😑 I can't see it.
Caucasian’s really are the invisible race in Singapore. Never see anything about them unless it’s about one that can speak singlish or some other thing Singaporean’s deem unusual.
Ina multicultural society race or religion should not matter
0:12 😂
That indian woman is pretty.
Chinese still better la… sad truth. Hais.
I've never find any Chinese guy with good looking😂
I think god is fair .. Chinese have no look but have brain.
IQ and Race
That is such a stupid comment, common sense will tell you that there are bound to be good looking people in any race. Please do not flaunt your ignorance.
indian are the most beautiful people
@@gunsroses1293 indian men and Chinese women make great couple.
@@sabhrestman6644 no never rehne de Bhai we don't like Chinese girls Indians guy and girl make best couple same with all race all should marry their own race
Indian isn't a race