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Singapore's Nativist Problem

posted by LaminatorX on Thursday February 27 2014, @03:30AM   
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."

• Re:Same Everywhere Re:Same Everywhere (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.

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• Re:Same Everywhere Re:Same Everywhere (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.

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

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  • Re:Same Everywhere (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

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