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Singapore's Nativist Problem

posted by LaminatorX on Thursday February 27 2014, @03:30AM   Printer-friendly
from the Xenophobia:-the-Universal-Language dept.

fx_68 writes:

"A sharp rise in the foreign population has ratcheted up racial tensions. Does Singapore have a problem with xenophobia? It seems that barely a month goes by these days without news reports highlighting friction between Singaporeans and foreign workers in the tiny multi-ethnic city-state."

 
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  • (Score: 1) by rmdingler on Thursday February 27 2014, @03:57AM

    by rmdingler (1038) on Thursday February 27 2014, @03:57AM (#7757)
    Sure.

    But realistically, the influx of population due to immigration has worked splendidly well for the Americans.

    Zero population growth in the Western nations exterminates economic expansion.

  • (Score: 1) by compro01 on Thursday February 27 2014, @04:04AM

    by compro01 (2515) on Thursday February 27 2014, @04:04AM (#7763)

    Sure, but the USA still had the Know Nothings and their unfortunately more successful modern decedents.

  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 27 2014, @04:30AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 27 2014, @04:30AM (#7780)

    Economies built and designed with the requirement of an ever-growing population are failed economies.

    • (Score: 2) by edIII on Thursday February 27 2014, @06:15AM

      by edIII (791) on Thursday February 27 2014, @06:15AM (#7818)

      Put more simply, any society that bases its foundation on unsustainable principles and methods will fail.

      --
      Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.

      • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday February 27 2014, @12:37PM

        by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Thursday February 27 2014, @12:37PM (#7914) Homepage
        And the root of the problem?
        "The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function."

        I think I should just make that line my .sig. I've posted it 3 times in the last week.
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        Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves