What lessons can multicultural Singapore offer America in light of the latter’s ongoing racial and religious tensions?
Published by Fair Observer, Sept. 27, 2016
Little India Heritage Centre. Photo: Singapore Tourism Board
By Tom Benner
Raw feelings over race and religion dominate the American political season. The talk is of walls and deportations to keep some out, “extreme vetting” for immigrants of a certain faith, and a debate over whose lives matter that is playing out in mindless violence on the streets.
The conflicting feelings over people of a different race, color or creed cannot, of course, be resolved to any one person’s or group’s satisfaction. But good answers to the divisiveness seem elusive. How can Americans see past their differences and get along?
As an American, I watch from afar where I live in Singapore, one of the most racially and religiously diverse nations in the world. This small country offers an approach.
Tom Benner Reports 